Adam Young Fireflies Poetic Techniques

Ready Player One - “Fireflies”
The book Ready Player One is a sci-fi fiction novel set in the near future - 28 years in the future, to be exact, written by Ernest Cline. The song “Fireflies” is a song written by Adam Young, a synthpop with a medium tempo, three and a half minutes long and with lyrics throughout. “Fireflies” is a song that centers on a dream world - not being able to fall asleep at night, having very vivid dreams, and feeling as if they could come true; while Player is about a virtual world that seems more important than the ruined reality that people live in. Both products include a second reality as a main feature, and are both told/sung from first person.
The first quote in the song and video is “If ten million fireflies/ lit up the world as I fell asleep” (Young, 2-3). It is inferred that the reader believes in/ yearns for some fantasy that he believes could happen at any moment. Then, the first phrase in the book is “We no longer have the energy to keep our civilization running. So we had to cut back. Big time.”(Cline, 17) Meaning that the world is ruined or corrupted in some way. “That’s what I kept telling myself, to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt” (Cline, 19) This is when the first connection is made: the

I don’t think you ever have” (Cline, 186) This is unexpected. All of Wade’s (and your) thoughts have been into the searching and guessing involved in the Hunt, and then something happens to Wade as something tells him that he is trying too hard and shouldn’t treat completing the Hunt as the ultimate solution. The next screen is simply a crashed interface, something that represents an epiphany after Wade tries to deal with the consequences of the words. He still continues though, as a spacecraft is seen flying, searching for a clue or puzzle piece, or going somewhere to seek the