summary of chapter virtually true?
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The story begins with a boy named Michael who comes across an article in the newspaper about a “Miracle Recovery.” The article is about a boy whose condition was critical but he still recovers from the coma. Michael remembers that the boy who was cited in the newspaper was, in fact, Sebastian Shultz who he had happened to meet a few weeks ago while playing.
It all got started during the Computer Fair, when Michael’s father who was nutty about computers, gifted him a new computer that was preloaded with games. When he starts playing the game ‘Wild West’, he gets challenged by “Black-eyed Jed” to a duel when becomes a Sheriff. He then meets a Second Sheriff whom he was asked to go with. Sadly, the Second Sheriff happens to get shot by the villains and the game soon ends. Later, he gets a printout which reads “I ‘m Sebastian Shultz, try playing Dragon Quest”.
In the game Dragon Quest, his mission is to save Princess Aurora from the wicked dragon and amass the wicked creature’s treasure along the way. He gets the help of the second knight who is none other than Sebastian. Sebastian was killed later on in the game. The game ends but his printer displays a message that asks him not to give up and try playing “Jailbreak.”
In the game Jail Break, his task is to escape along with the prisoner, and he somehow knew it was Sebastian again. They eventually break out of jail and run to the roof as doors shut behind them. Then the helicopter arrives as they reach the roof and they get into the helicopter. When they took off, Sebastian falls off the helicopter and then the game ends. Michael plays the game many times later on but he never gets a print after that.
Then one fine day, his printer displays a message that tells him that the helicopter was a better choice, so try your luck at playing “War Zone”. Sebastian also promised not to trouble him again if this did not work out.
Michael jumped into the game right away. He found himself in a city that is scarred by battle wounds. He knew that his job was to save Sebastian. They run together towards an abandoned jeep that they manage to find amidst the rubble. Then, they go towards a helicopter as a tank follows them. As soon as it came to their view, Sebastian stopped the car. Michael jumped into the helicopter when the jeep went into a spin. Sebastian does not go into the helicopter at this point. Michael patiently waits and shouts at him to come into the helicopter but Sebastian does not budge. A few moments later, Sebastian is thrown into the helicopter when the tank collides with the jeep. They fly into clouds and the game ends, saving him. When Michael removes his visor, he realizes that he has got the Higher Score.
The narrator now wants to cross-check the details. He gets out of the train and tries to get some details on the internet. He finds out what he was looking for. It seems that during the time of the accident, Sebastian was on his laptop and was playing one of the psycho-drive games that the narrator had purchased.
The narrator later understands that Sebastian’s memory had got stored on the disk because the computer had saved Sebastian’s memory, when he had banged his head during the accident. But it’s interesting to know how it ended up in the narrator’s computer. This puzzle also gets solved later because the narrator gets to know that when Sebastian was in the hospital, someone had stolen his games and sold them and it was the narrator who had ended up buying them. There is also a message from Sebastian that says, “DEAR MICHAEL, THANK YOU. I’M NOT SURE HOW IT HAPPENED. BUT YOU SAVED MY LIFE. LET’S MEET UP SOON, CHEERS. SEB. PL. KEEP THE GAMES. YOU’VE EARNED THEM”.
This was the direct and actual message from Sebastian. It was clear that something wonderful had happened by reliving the accident. But what can anyone say about miracles? And what is real or what is virtually real – no one can say with concretely. The narrator goes through an experience that had proved to be virtually true.
This was an overview, the Virtually True summary.
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⚫So , the story begins with Michael , who reads an article "Miracle Recovery" while travelling . And he is shocked to find that the boy was none other than the one whom he had met in the virtual reality world ! The story moves to the last with Michael and his dad going to the computer fair on Saturday. He and his dad being crazy about new gadgets and gizmos , buy a whole lot of virtual reality games , visor and hand gloves from the computer fair !
⚫Then , after returning back , Michael begins to play those games . There were three different games. What similarity was that he ran into the same boy Sebastian in each one of them , with his target being to rescue the boy!
The games he played are as follows :-
⚫After some kinda trouble and struggle , he finally succeeds in rescuing Sebastian . Another day , he is shocked to find a newspaper report that shows that : Sebastian Shultz , a young lad recovered from comma. Then he understands the whole story. Actually those games belonged to Sebastian . He was paying them when suddenly his car collided and he met with an accident . His head banged and his memory got saved into the computer !
★ Now at the end , as a surprise : he got a message from the actual boy - Sebastian who had been rescued due to his attempt! As a reward , he gifted him those virtual reality games.
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