justify the title VIRTUALLY TRUE

The title 'Virtually True' is justified because it is the convergence of the real and the virtual world. It can be understood once you go through the summary of the chapter.

Paul Stewart's Virtually True fantastically converges science and imagination. The story is all about computer games, it shows how the virtual reality as presented by computer games may get fused with events of the actual world creating a very interesting situation. The story involves two central characters Michael and Sebastian who love to play computer games. Both of them residing in different parts of the world happen to interact with each other through computer games.

The story begins with the description of how the narrator and his father are fond of modern computer games. In the beginning it is narrated how both the father and the son spent the entire Saturday afternoon at the computer fair buying some computer games. Michael's father being crazy of the computers bought different components of computer. Michael bought many computer games.

They bought virtual reality visor and glove, and a handful of the latest interactive psycho-drive games.

After coming back home, Michael played the wilder west game, a very complicated game. He was enjoying the game. He was surprised to find the second sheriff in the game who again and again asked him not to go out. Michael was curious to know who he was as he was like the other characters in the saloon. Michael thought that he was of his age but he was different in that he couldn't move like the narrator. The second sheriff told that he lacked time to explain him regarding this and told him just to follow him. They then raced down a corridor, and through a door. Other sheriff shouted to go forward. So, they went on through another another door, and another ,and ended up back in the saloon. No! Screamed the second sheriff. Then he ran to the back of the saloon and dived through the window. By the time Michael climbed out after him, he was already sitting on a horse. Then asked Michael to jump up and after that he kicked the horse, and sped of in a cloud of dust. Then he asked to keep his head down as he had seen the posse of men on horse back speeding after them. At that moment, the sound of a gunshot echoed round the air. The second sheriff groaned and slumped back against Michael. Ahead of Michael, in bright neon lights came a message, game over. As he slipped off the visor, the empty dessert disappeared and he found himself back in the power-base. He took off the glove and headphones. He then glanced at the score on the screen 21,095. 

Dragonquest:He noticed the printer had come on. He picked up the piece of paper from the tray. At the top was a picture of the second sheriff. This time though, he was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. Printed over the bottom was a message. I am stuck .Please Help to retrieve me. Try 'Dragonquest.'Sebastian Shultz. He was about to play the game but the light went off. So, the next morning he sat on the computer and was soon walking through the massive studded doors of the dragon 's castle lair. The aim of the game was simple. He had to rescue the fair princes Aurora from the wicked dragon and collect the wicked creature's treasure along the way. The Princess, who had been imprisoned at the top of a tall tower, was a young woman with long golden plaits. She addressed me as she could hear the roar of the dragon roaring.But soon he was warned not to rescue her. At this Michael got frightened.

The second knight nodded was furious and with a pair of scissors he chopped off the princess's two long plaits. Then he tied them together, fixed one end round the bedpost and threw the other end out of the window. As he leapt for the window and down the hair rope, the dragon appeared. As Michael lowered down he felt the dragon's fiery breath. Across the moonlight battlements, the princess and Michael ran down a spiral staircase and through a secret passage on the other side of a tapestry. And the whole time he could hear and feel and even smell the evil dragon following in close pursuit. The dungeons, “Sir, Sebastian cried out. They're our only hope.” They went down the cold stone steps, swords drawn. Suddenly, the dragon appeared at the end of the corridor. Michael swung his sword but was in vain as the dragon was only interested in Sebastian and there was nothing he could do to prevent it getting him. And the message flash “Better luck next time. Please don’t give up, Michael. Otherwise I'll have to stay in here for ever. Try “Jail break” I think it might just work! Cheers, SEB”

Jail break:While playing the game he did not bother to read the rules as he knew that he had to rescue the boy whose prison number was to 02478: Shultz. With the help of a skeleton swipe -card , both of them were soon out of the cell and racing down corridors. Sirens wailed, guard dogs howled, heavy boots came tramping. Behind them steel-barred doors slammed shut. They cut the guards, fled the dogs and ran towards the staircase and pounded upwards. On the roof, Sebastian looked round, and glanced at his watch nervously. As they were approaching the helicopter, the door behind them burst open. Twelve guards with vicious dogs were standing there. The next instant the dogs were hurtling towards them,all bared teeth and dripping jowls. The dogs made Sebastian frightened: he slipped and was tumbling back through the air, down to the concrete below.

In the next moment as he removed his visor and looked in the printer tray there was no message left for him. The narrator thought that he had failed Sebastian and the game. But when the scenes began to fade in his memory , that it occurred to him that Sebastian Shultz was the game. So, to find Sebastian he went back to Wildwest, Dragonquest and jail break but he could not meet him again.

After few days he got the message “Can we have one last try ?I think the helicopter was the right Idea. There's got to be some kind of an accident...Go into Warzone . If this does not work I won't bother you again. Cheers . SEB”.

Warzone:The narrator was not sure of which war zone they were in. It was a city somewhere. The tall buildings were windowless and riddled with holes. Machine gun fire raked the sky. Walls tumbled. Bombs exploded. The thing only they knew was that Sebastian and he had to make it to sniper fire. At the far end they went through a door in a wall. The helicopter was on the ground, waiting for their arrival. They started to run , but the tank fire sent them scuttling back to the wall. All of a sudden Sebastian jumped into a jeep which was parked by the road and turned the ignition key and revived the engine. He asked Michael also to jump in and both of them went off. A tank was hurtling after them. Suddenly, Sebastian slammed on the brakes and sent the Jeepskidding into a spin. The narrator leapt clear, and jumped into the helicopter. But Sebastian could not . He was sitting as if his body had been turned to stone. And the tank which was chasing the Jeepcrashed and Sebastian was thrown into the air. Somehow the narrator pulled him up and rescued Sebastian at last! The game was over and Michael has scored 40,000 which hit the jackpot and cracked the game.

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the title is very apt and suggestive to the story. the story revolves aroud an incident theat the two great intelligents in the world , ie, the human intelligents and the computer could interact with each other which is not possibe in actual to day but can be theorically said so. the boy shultz gets his memory stored in his games.

Thus the story seens to be quite fictive, but theoretically speaking , it is virtually true. Who knows humans and computer intelligences may begin to interact one day in future?

Hope it helps.

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Hi,

In this chapter virtually true.......virtually means being in fact but not in effect, that we can say for computer games and here true means that micheal played computer games (not real) and Seb 's life saved in reality that is true..

This title is apt for the story because in the story Seb 's life was saved ( a fact / reality) from computer game ( which was not real).

The title 'Virtually True' is justified because it is the convergence of the real and the virtual world. It can be understood once you go through the summary of the chapter. Follow the mentioned link for the same:

https://www.meritnation.com/discuss/question/1764099/can-any-one-please-post-the-summary-for-virtually-true

hpe dis will hlp u dude......

cheerzz........

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