The Author vs. The Reader
My Experience Trying to Get Ahead of Ernest Cline’s Plot

Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One gives its reader plenty of hints and foreshadowing events that nearly gives the reader full power to always be one step ahead of the plot. Throughout my experience, I was in constant battle with Cline to see if i could prove myself in a sense where either I could predict exactly what was to happen based off of what he fed me, I could not predict anything and simply let him lead me through the plot, or I thought I was getting ahead of him but he had just led me to a dead end to potentially mask another plot twist.

The Wins

On multiple occasions, I was able to predict the way in which the Cline would eventually take his plot. Right from Cline’s introductions and depictions in the third chapter of the novel, I easily identified that Aech would be a major ally for Wade throughout the book while I-r0k would take an antagonist role in the novel. Consequently, it came to me as no surprise when I-r0k finally turned on them and attempted to blackmail Wade in the thirteenth chapter. In between those two points in the story, I also succeeded in predicting how Morrow and Halliday had a falling out, as Cline disclosed on page 121. Back on page 55, Cline had portrayed Morrow and Halliday’s relationship as if they had …show more content…
Throughout my experience, I was in constant battle with Cline to see if i could prove to myself my attentive skills. I successfully envisioned and spotted his blueprint for Ready Player One on many instances throughout the novel. Though at times, I could not predict anything and simply let Cline lead me through his plot. Most frequently, however, I would think I was getting ahead of Cline’s pace when he really was just leading me to a dead end in order to mask another plot points and