https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv Book Club en-us 2018-05-08 15:59:45 UTC 2018-05-24 12:27:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png 10003963 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259668112 I was essentially saying that i found Og really cliche and i didnt really like it.]]> 2018-05-10 15:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259668112 10003966 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259682639 Connections to our world:  The book was published at the height of the Arab Spring, which was a major uprising in the Middle East and North Africa.
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In the beginning of the book, it said "dozens" of wars were being fought. I though that that probably tied in with current events in 2011, maybe?]]> 2018-05-10 16:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259682639 seekerp1 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259910468 2018-05-11 12:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259910468 10003964 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259913754 The world outside of the OASIS is filled with lots of chaos and war. One very large problem in the world is in the form of an online corporation called "IOI". They are one of the largest (if not the largest) and corrupted companies in the world. This could be related to Verizon and Facebook if they were corrupt and all powerful.]]> 2018-05-11 12:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259913754 100045341 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259915162 Real World Connections 
While this story is written in 2011,  I think that the theme of corporate take over is prevalent in this day and age. The one connection I thought of was the repeal of net neutrality and IOI taking over the OASIS, both are about corporations (IOI in RPO and Verizion & Sprint in the real world) taking the internet and restricting what they don't want us/the characters to see. They can take the internet/OASIS and turn it into whatever they want, also both the IOI and real world companies want to make people pay for the internet/OASIS out of corporate greed.]]> 2018-05-11 12:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259915162 10003943 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259915189 Power: In the OASIS one of the bigger problems is power being used for the wrong things. An example of this is the IOI. SInce they have  a large group of people no one can stop them from doing this. With their groups they cheat in the hunt for the egg. But, since there are no rules written for the hunt they also can't be stopped for cheating. Their power has also taken place outside of the OASIS. As other gunters get farther in the hunt the IOI try to attack them to get the information of things like the keys and gates.

]]> 2018-05-11 12:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259915189 10011505 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259916032 Real world connections: Poverty
the story was written in 2011 when the poverty line was over 15% (over 42 million people). The story that takes places outside Wade's OASIS  adventure shows that now most of the US is now homeless or under the poverty line]]> 2018-05-11 12:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/259916032 10003966 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/261628992 Ready Player One was published 3 years after the Great Recession in 2008. It left the entire world in economic turmoil. Stocks crashed, and prices rose. It started with the bursting of an 8,000,000,000,000 dollar housing bubble bursting. In the story, everyone is poor. They have to live in stacks of trailers, converted hotels, and camps.]]> 2018-05-17 15:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/261628992 10003966 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/262404795 To make a long story short I feel no sympathy for the villains. There isn't even a backstory to them. He's just a typical bad guy.

]]> 2018-05-21 15:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/262404795 10004498 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/262405763 I mean, I agree with Aidan, Sorrento is just the head of a Multi-National Conglomerate trying to make Steve Jobs' worth of profit out of greed.]]> 2018-05-21 15:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/262405763 10004015 https://padlet.com/10004015/p5mv9ta2mqrv/wish/262407405 I don"t feel sympathy for sorrento, there is no real justification for his actions, he just kills people out of his greed? like there isnt really a vulnerable side to him

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