Essay #2: Interpretive Analysis of Ready Player One --  Assignment: In a clearly written, thesis-driven essay, analyze how an element or a particular scene in the film Ready Player One (2018) directed by Steven Spielberg, or an element or a particular chapter in the novel by Ernest Cline (2011) brings out an important theme or take-away message. Offer an interpretation of how specific moments in 1-3 scenes (or chapters) encourage us to consider a major issue or concern in a new way. Your task is to analyze (take apart and examine) how a particular character, setting, conversation, plot twist, the tone and style, or a significant symbol functions to emphasize and clarify an important issue. Analyze just the novel or just the film. Alternatively, you may do a formal analysis of the film. (You’ll need some background in Film Studies to do this well – it has its own language.) Analyze the way its formal components – scene-setting, camera angles, close-ups, special effects, music, sound, etc.—combine to underline an important theme and impact us as a work of art.  You need to review the following 2 essays drafts Essay1draft: Introduction of Author and Story Brief Synopsis Thesis - This novel produces this balance between the future and the past. It is set in a world that is unfamiliar to us, but simultaneously presents a comforting sense of the familiar. We can recognize the cultural references in the novel. Body 1 Cline constantly yanks us back and forth, from the unknown to the known, the past to the future. In text examples Explain Examples Body 2 This presents an atmosphere beyond nostalgia, as a society that is almost stale. They are this far advanced in the future, yet they are still obsessed with an era long gone. Examples Details Conclusion Restate Thesis Review main points Essay 2 Draft: Reality Versus Illusion in Ready Player One The film Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg was based on a book, with the same title, writing by Ernest Cline focuses on the main character Wade Watts journey in this VR game called OASIS. The film is set in this alternated Planet Earth in 2045 in Columbus, Ohio where people are shown to have no sense of reality as everyone is consumed in this virtual reality game called the OASIS. By all means, people of all ages, like our main character, Wade Watts is an orphan currently living with his Aunt Alice. His reality, like a lot of people, is from the poorer side of society, without much motivation to do anything in life as he has no career and is not attending school. However, most of his time is spent in this virtual reality, the OASIS, where he has an only friend, Aech. The reason people are so involved in this game is because the creator of OASIS hid an Easter egg somewhere in the game and whoever finds it gain total control over OASIS as well as his shares in the company Gregarious Games. This sparks the interest of many people as they think it is an easy way to get rich. In doing so, the conf.

1. Essay #2: Interpretive Analysis of Ready Player One --
Assignment:
In a clearly written, thesis-driven essay, analyze how an
element or a particular scene in the film Ready Player One
(2018) directed by Steven Spielberg, or an element or a
particular chapter in the novel by Ernest Cline (2011) brings out
an important theme or take-away message. Offer an
interpretation of how specific moments in 1-3 scenes (or
chapters) encourage us to consider a major issue or concern in a
new way. Your task is to analyze (take apart and examine) how
a particular character, setting, conversation, plot twist, the tone
and style, or a significant symbol functions to emphasize and
clarify an important issue. Analyze just the novel or just the
film.
Alternatively, you may do a formal analysis of the film. (You’ll
need some background in Film Studies to do this well – it has
its own language.) Analyze the way its formal components –
scene-setting, camera angles, close-ups, special effects, music,
sound, etc.—combine to underline an important theme and
impact us as a work of art.
You need to review the following 2 essays drafts
Essay1draft:
Introduction of Author and Story
Brief Synopsis
Thesis - This novel produces this balance between the future
and the past. It is set in a world that is unfamiliar to us, but
simultaneously presents a comforting sense of the familiar. We
can recognize the cultural references in the novel.
Body 1
Cline constantly yanks us back and forth, from the unknown to
the known, the past to the future.
In text examples
Explain Examples

2. Body 2
This presents an atmosphere beyond nostalgia, as a society that
is almost stale. They are this far advanced in the future, yet they
are still obsessed with an era long gone.
Examples
Details
Conclusion
Restate Thesis
Review main points
Essay 2 Draft:
Reality Versus Illusion in Ready Player One
The film Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg was
based on a book, with the same title, writing by Ernest Cline
focuses on the main character Wade Watts journey in this VR
game called OASIS. The film is set in this alternated Planet
Earth in 2045 in Columbus, Ohio where people are shown to
have no sense of reality as everyone is consumed in this virtual
reality game called the OASIS. By all means, people of all ages,
like our main character, Wade Watts is an orphan currently
living with his Aunt Alice. His reality, like a lot of people, is
from the poorer side of society, without much motivation to do
anything in life as he has no career and is not attending school.
However, most of his time is spent in this virtual reality, the
OASIS, where he has an only friend, Aech. The reason people
are so involved in this game is because the creator of OASIS
hid an Easter egg somewhere in the game and whoever finds it
gain total control over OASIS as well as his shares in the
company Gregarious Games. This sparks the interest of many
people as they think it is an easy way to get rich. In doing so,
the conflict between what is reality versus illusion becomes
unclear so people are wanting to make this illusion their reality
as it is just so much better.
Ready Player One is roughly based on two major settings. One
of them is the reality that is shown to us through the eyes of

3. Wade Watts as to what the reality on Planet Earth is in 2045.
The opening of the movie starts off with Wade walking around
the neighbor in which he lives in called the Stacks. Very much
literal to the name of the neighborhood, the houses are literally
stacked on top on one another looking futuristic but lacking.
This reality of Planet Earth is suffering from energy shortage as
well as overpopulated with many of the population being
unemployed. The viewer follows Wade to his hideout which
happens to be a junkyard. Such scenes come to show the viewer
how rough it is for the under privileged as compared to the
more well off people in this society. This sets off the notion for
our main character that he must work hard in this other virtual
reality called the OASIS in order to change the type of person
that he is in the real world. This comes to show that Wade’s
virtual reality is just so much better than his real reality,
resulting him in spending more of his time in OASIS than in the
real world. He shows this to us by being very consumed in the
game OASIS, as even if he is not playing the game, he is
thinking about how to solve the Easter egg hunt in real life. Just
by this, the viewer could predict that he would be the one to
solve the hunt and obtain the egg; however, he is opposed by
the antagonist Nolan Sorrento, who is made known to us by
sending a hitman after Wade after he scores first on the
scoreboard. Compared to Wade Watts, Nolan Sorrento has a
much better reality than Wade as he has a job being the head of
one IOI’s department, yet with such privilege he still wants to
go after the Easter egg in order to gain control over OASIS.
In comparison, the film also takes place in virtual reality called
the OASIS that is eye pleasing as “limits of reality are your own
imagination”. The reality of planet Earth is very chaotic and
majority of the people are poor , causing a lot of people to want
to escape to this virtual world where they can “go anywhere
without going anywhere at all”. In doing so, people are able to
create a different version of the best self, like Wade’s avatar,
Parzival is totally opposite of his real self. We witness this in
the opening scene when Wade logs onto OASIS and turns into

4. Parziaval, a lean muscular avatar, without any acne, walking
and talking with total confidence. The opening scene of OASIS
is very symbolic as it comes to show this transition between a
deserted Earth where no one wants to be into something magical
where everyone wants to spend their time in. The setting of
OASIS is very persuasive pulling many people in as you can do
a lot of things there. People find themselves being able to focus
on their hobbies or in Wade’s cases, he is able to focus on the
task of finding the Easter egg in order to make a name for
himself. Other people like his love-interest Art3mis seeks the
treasure as an opportunity to save the real world from the
destruction of IOI, Nolan Sorrento himself, from obtaining it
and causing real damage to the rest of the people.
OASIS itself is symbolic in being a place of escape from the
harsh reality that people are face with. In doing so, this illusion
is in place for people who want to run away from the fear of
being in the outside world just like the creator himself. People
are absorbed in this reality because they do not want to face
their real reality of being worthless. In the end, Wade is able to
figure out himself that maybe his real reality is not so bad after
all after he finds love in the real life. He concludes that maybe
one should take a step back from this virtual reality in order to
see what the real world has to offer.
Ultimately, the film is use as a way in order to warn people of
the danger of technology. With the futuristic adaptation, people
are able to witness that with us evolution, people forget who
they really are in the real world and only focus on trying to
better their virtual reality self. The line between reality versus
illusion is made very clear in this film as it comes to show us
people trying to losing themselves in this illusion world as it is
a much better escape for them compared to their reality.
Because of the social class present in the reality, it makes it
harder for people to want to accept their real self because they
find themselves not worthy, thus everyone wants to create a
worthy self in this other universe. Similarly to our society
today, many people want escape in a game because it has

5. become their way to release stress and in other case be
themselves.
Essay #2: Interpretive Analysis of
Ready Pla
yer One
--
Assignment:
In a clearly written, thesis
-
driven essay, analyze how an element or a particular scene in
the film
Ready Player One
(2018) directed by Steven Spielberg, or an element or a
particular chapter in the novel by Ernest Cline
(2011) brings out an important theme or
take
-
away message. Offer an interpretation of how specific moments
in 1
-
3 scenes (or
chapters) encourage us to consider a major issue or concern in a
new way. Your task is to
analyze (take apart and examine) how a p
articular character, setting, conversation, plot
twist, the tone and style, or a significant symbol functions to
emphasize and clarify an

6. important issue. Analyze just the novel or just the film.
Alternatively, you may do a formal analysis of the film. (Yo
u’ll need some background in
Film Studies to do this well
–
it has its own language.) Analyze the way its formal
components
–
scene
-
setting, camera angles, close
-
ups, special effects, music, sound, etc.
—
combine to underline an important theme and impact us
as a work of art.
You need to review the following 2 essay
s
drafts
Essay1
draft
:
Introduction of Author and Story
Brief Synopsis

7. Thesis
-
This novel produces this balance between the future and the
past. It is set in a world that
is unfamiliar to us, but simultaneously presents a comforting
sense of the familiar.
We can
recognize the cultural references in the novel.
Body 1
Cline constantly yanks us back and forth, from the unknown to
the known, the past to the future.
In text examples
Explain Examples
Essay #2: Interpretive Analysis of Ready Player One --
Assignment:
In a clearly written, thesis-driven essay, analyze how an
element or a particular scene in
the film Ready Player One (2018) directed by Steven Spielberg,
or an element or a
particular chapter in the novel by Ernest Cline (2011) brings out
an important theme or
take-away message. Offer an interpretation of how specific
moments in 1-3 scenes (or
chapters) encourage us to consider a major issue or concern in a
new way. Your task is to
analyze (take apart and examine) how a particular character,
setting, conversation, plot
twist, the tone and style, or a significant symbol functions to
emphasize and clarify an

8. important issue. Analyze just the novel or just the film.
Alternatively, you may do a formal analysis of the film. (You’ll
need some background in
Film Studies to do this well – it has its own language.) Analyze
the way its formal
components – scene-setting, camera angles, close-ups, special
effects, music, sound, etc.—
combine to underline an important theme and impact us as a
work of art.
You need to review the following 2 essays drafts
Essay1draft:
Introduction of Author and Story
Brief Synopsis
Thesis - This novel produces this balance between the future
and the past. It is set in a world that
is unfamiliar to us, but simultaneously presents a comforting
sense of the familiar. We can
recognize the cultural references in the novel.
Body 1
Cline constantly yanks us back and forth, from the unknown to
the known, the past to the future.
In text examples
Explain Examples
Use the Online Peer Review Guidelines. First, quickly read
through the entire draft. Then, move through the draft more
slowly, answering questions 1-7 from the PR Guidelines in the
editing pane. (Add comments #1 through #7 to the sidebar as
you read). Your comments are available to the teacher to review
and assess. Here's the Rubric for Peer Review , questions only
(use after you've reviewed the Guidelines).
Rubric
for Peer Review
Comment on these elements of a peer’s essay draft or Scratch
Outline

9. :
#1 What I like best about this essay
#2 Thesis argument -- present & effective?
#3 Synopsis of text -- present & effective?
#4 Evidence -- Assert/Support/Explain in each paragraph?
#5 Order and Logic of paragraphs sensible? Effective?
#6 Grammar errors – mention patterns only (do not correct
grammar)
#7 Friendly note of advice to writer—what’s working, what to
improve
To Draft EDITORS: If you receive a Scratch Outline for review,
follow the same guidelines, but focus more on refining the
thesis and less on commenting on the quantity and specificity of
the evidence the writer proposes to submit as evidence for his or
her thesis claim. In all cases, note the tone of the draft -- is it
appropriately formal? Is it well organized? Do you 'get' the
main argument clearly enough? Do NOT correct grammatical or
formatting errors, although you are free to mention that you
believe there may be some problems with these technical issues.
ONLINE PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES for Canvas
Please read and comment on your system-assigned peers’ drafts
on a larger rather than a smaller screen. Make editorial
comments and questions following the guidelines below.
Before you begin, print out and read the assignment prompt.
Keep it nearby. Also review the 1b Course Rubric. Then, scan
through the entire draft or Scratch Outline as quickly as you
can. Before entering your comments in the sidebar, put: PEER
REVIEWED BY [your name].

10. Now, take the following steps:
1. After quickly scanning the entire draft, say something
positive about what you’ve read. What do you like best about
it? Put a large #1 and say “WHAT I LIKE BEST ABOUT THIS
ESSAY IS…”
1. Put a large #2 and the word THESIS. Then, FIND the
THESIS and COMMENT on what you believe is the main
argument of the essay. Is it clear and easy to find? If so, try to
re-state it in your own words. {I think you’re saying, xxx.]If
you like, you may suggest re-wording it or adding to it – make
specific suggestions, if you have any. If you can’t find a thesis
argument, SAY THAT, and maybe create one as an example of
what you believe the essay is arguing. Identifying and helping
clarify the main argument or thesis of the essay is a first, most
important thing to do. If the essay strikes you as off topic,
meaning it’s not what was assigned in the prompt, politely say
so. (This is rare.)
1. Next, put a large #3 andCOMMENT ON the presence and
quality of a brief SYNOPSIS (summary) of the story. Is it there,
is it clear, and is it very brief? Does it focus in on main
elements like who tells the story, where it takes place, and who
it’s about? VERY IMPORTANT: if the writer is re-telling the
whole story, and that’s what most of the essay is about, say
OOPS! Politely remind him or her that THIS IS NOT OK! We
are writing ABOUT the story or poem, not re-telling it.
1. Next, put a large #4 and COMMENT on the EVIDENCE
offered to support the thesis argument of the essay section by
section or by each body paragraph. (Identify paragraphs by
number.) You may need to quickly scan through the whole essay
again. Does each paragraph have its own TOPIC SENTENCE
{Assert) that announces the purpose of the whole paragraph?
Are thereSPECIFIC QUOTES (Support)offered as evidence to
support this assertion, followed by an EXPLANATION

11. (Explain) or analysis of this quote? [ASE]. If so, good. If not,
try to suggest what might serve to declare the topic of the
paragraphs, note it needs textual evidence, and/ or suggest an
explanation of a quote is missing. This is a good way to
structure the body paragraphs of the expository essay:Assert the
paragraph’s point/Support it with a quote/Explain what it means
[ASE].
1. Next, put a large #5 and COMMENT on the ORDER and
internal LOGIC of the paragraphs. Does the evidence offered to
support the thesis argument make sense to you? Notice the
essay’s organization. Be sure to comment if you notice the
essay takes “side trips.” Is the essay logically put together?
Does it stay on the topic? If not, briefly comment on paragraphs
that seem out of place or beside the point. Try outlining the
paragraph topics to help you identity the LOGICAL
REASONING of the essay. Again, notice if the essay is mostly
re-telling the story. If that’s all you see, say so.
1. Finally, please do NOT correct grammar, punctuation,
spelling or format errors. You might mention it –use #6,
GRAMMAR --if you notice a pattern of errors or want to
suggest that the Spell Checker is in order. If it’s not double
spaced in MLA formatting yet, just mention that it must be
submitted in that format. DO NOT SPEND ANY TIME
CORRECTING GRAMMAR.
1. NOTE TO THE WRITER. When you’ve finished reviewing
the essay, look back. Please write a final short note to the writer
-- #7. What is your advice? In a friendly tone, briefly explain
your comments. ALWAYS MENTION THE THESIS
ARGUMENT again here. BE SPECIFIC. What’s working? What
could be changed to make the essay better?
USE A FRIENDLY TONE and MENTION WHAT’s WORKING
WELL, first & last. PLEASE REMEMBER TO BE KIND, TO

12. BE SPECIFIC and TO BE ENCOURAGING.
Again, be sure your name is at the top.
Use the
Onli
ne Peer Review Guidelines
.
First, quickly read through the entire draft. Then,
move through the draft more slowly, answering questions 1
-
7 from the PR Guidelines in
the editi
ng pane.
(Add comments #1 through #7 to the sidebar as you read). Your
comments are available to the teacher to review and assess.
Here's
the Rubric for Peer
Review
, questions only (use after you've reviewed the Guidelines).
Rubric
for Peer Review
Comment on these elements of a peer’s essay draft or Scratch
Outline

13. :
#1 What I like best about this essay
#2 Thesis argument
--
present & effective?
#3 Synopsis of text
--
present & effective?
#4 Evidence
--
Assert/Support/Explain
in each paragraph?
#5 Order and Logic of paragraphs sensible? Effective?
#6 Grammar errors
–
mention patterns only (do not correct grammar)
#7 Friendly note of advice to writer
—
what’s working, what to improve
To

14. Draft
EDITORS: If you receive a Scratch Outline for review, follow
the same
guideline
s, but focus more on refining the thesis and less on commenting
on the quantity
and specificity of the evidence the writer proposes to submit as
evidence for his or her
thesis claim. In all cases, note the tone of the draft
--
is it appropriately formal? I
s it well
organized? Do you 'get' the main argument clearly enough? Do
NOT correct grammatical
or formatting errors, although you are free to mention that you
believe there may be some
problems with these technical issues.
ONLINE PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES for Canvas
Please read and comment on your system
-
assigned peers’ drafts on a larger rather than a smaller
screen. Make editorial comments and que
stions following the guidelines below.
Before you begin, print out and read the assignment prompt.
Keep it nearby. Also review the 1b
Course Rubric. Then, scan through the entire draft or Scratch

15. Outline as quickly as you can.
Before
entering your commen
ts in the sidebar, put: PEER REVIEWED BY [your name].
Use the Online Peer Review Guidelines. First, quickly read
through the entire draft. Then,
move through the draft more slowly, answering questions 1-7
from the PR Guidelines in
the editing pane. (Add comments #1 through #7 to the sidebar
as you read). Your
comments are available to the teacher to review and assess.
Here's the Rubric for Peer
Review , questions only (use after you've reviewed the
Guidelines).
Rubric
for Peer Review
Comment on these elements of a peer’s essay draft or Scratch
Outline
:
#1 What I like best about this essay
#2 Thesis argument -- present & effective?
#3 Synopsis of text -- present & effective?
#4 Evidence -- Assert/Support/Explain in each paragraph?
#5 Order and Logic of paragraphs sensible? Effective?
#6 Grammar errors – mention patterns only (do not correct
grammar)
#7 Friendly note of advice to writer—what’s working, what to
improve
To Draft EDITORS: If you receive a Scratch Outline for review,
follow the same
guidelines, but focus more on refining the thesis and less on

16. commenting on the quantity
and specificity of the evidence the writer proposes to submit as
evidence for his or her
thesis claim. In all cases, note the tone of the draft -- is it
appropriately formal? Is it well
organized? Do you 'get' the main argument clearly enough? Do
NOT correct grammatical
or formatting errors, although you are free to mention that you
believe there may be some
problems with these technical issues.
ONLINE PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES for Canvas
Please read and comment on your system-assigned peers’ drafts
on a larger rather than a smaller
screen. Make editorial comments and questions following the
guidelines below.
Before you begin, print out and read the assignment prompt.
Keep it nearby. Also review the 1b
Course Rubric. Then, scan through the entire draft or Scratch
Outline as quickly as you can. Before
entering your comments in the sidebar, put: PEER REVIEWED
BY [your name].