Response to Ready Player One Instructions: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability while drawing direct evidence from the text That means talking about specific scenes or...

Response to Ready

Player One

Instructions:

Answer the following questions to the best of your ability while drawing direct

evidence from the text That means talking about specific scenes or characters,

and/or pulling quotations from the book

1 How does the

book depict fandom? What specific type of fandom does it promote? Why make this

type of fandom the key to victory and empowerment?

2 Does the race,

gender, and sexuality of Parzival matter in both the context of the story and

in determining its meaning? Why or why not?

3 How does the

book depict the purpose of games and play in a dystopian society? How does it

merge the boundaries of real and artificial worlds? Should Parzival push the

button at the end?

4 Why do you

think the book is so nostalgic for 80s popular culture? Why might this resonate

with certain audiences today?