Wade Watts: Wade Watts lives in Oklahoma City in 2044. He lives a town called the Stacks. His parents died when he was young and he now lives with his aunt. He plays a virtual reality game called the OASIS which is reality for him.
Art3mis: Art3mis is an online blogger and also plays the OASIS. She becomes friends with Wade. She hides her identity from everyone by using the OASIS. Her real name is Samantha but she does not reveal it for a long time.
Aech: Aech is Wade’s best friend and they play the OASIS all the time. Aech is a pvp (player vs. player) fighter and is well known among the OASIS community. Aech’s avatar is a boy and all of his friends think of him this way, but when Wade meets him he realizes Aech is actually a girl.
Sorrento: Sorrento is the big corporate monster who owns almost the entire OASIS. Wade and his friends try to take him down throughout the book. He is the antagonist and Wade is the hero.
James Halliday: James Halliday made the OASIS. He is very rich because of the OASIS’s popularity. He eventually dies and leaves his fortune in an egg for all players to try and win.
Setting
Ready Player One takes place in the year 2044. Wade lives in Oklahoma City with his aunt because of his parents' death. He and his aunt live in the Stacks which is a bunch of …show more content…
He has to beat a lich (a serpent) in a game of Joust (an 80’s video game). When he wins, his name was the first to appear on the leaderboard and he becomes famous in OASIS. It became a race to obtain all the keys and pass all the gates to get to Halliday's egg. Wade has the cooper key, but now he needs to discover the location of the first gate to move on in the race. Wade goes to find the gate in James Halliday's hometown. Wade finds Hallidays virtual house and logs onto Halliday’s computer to find himself inside the movie War Games. He then has to act out the entire movie and he