The only escape that Wade has from all of the “total bullshit” is the OASIS. He believes “the whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years”. All of the anger and confusion that he’s feeling causes him to doubt his previously instilled religious beliefs. He’s just now learning about global energy crisis and he can’t come to any other conclusion than “the future doesn’t look too bright”. Wade seems to be fed up with how the “adults were bullshitting him”. He also “doesn’t remember his father”, because “he was shot dead while looting a grocery store during a power blackout”. Wade didn’t grow up with much of a family, because his mom passed away when “she shot a bad batch of something into her arm”. Wade’s aunt owned a trailer, which housed “a total of fifteen people”. The stacks are a bunch of RV’s and/or trailers that are stacked on top of each other. Wade was “the only child of two teenagers, both refugees who’d met in the stacks where he’d grown up” (Cline 19). Wade has gone through a lot of tragedy throughout his life and he would be in a position to go through more without OASIS.
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