You'll Shoot your eye out!

 PLOT

   

      The plot of the story is all about the narrator's childhood and how it applies to the importance of the toy industry. His story begins all because of a little old woman's badge that said "Disarm the toy industry". The remembrance of his childhood is significant to the story because he is trying to explain the toys are the most important part of a childhood. He Believes that people who want to disarm the toy company are crazy. He feels the need to return to his younger years of life to show that it is ridiculous to blame the Toy industry "As if [it] has any control over the insatiable desire of the human spawn to own Weaponry..." (475)

POINT OF VIEW 

     The point of view of this story is in first person. It is significant to the point trying to be made in this story because it makes it more personal  and believable. It also gives the over all story a more interesting tone and it connects close to home. The adults who read this story might be able to relate to "Open Road For Boys" (475), "Red Ryder" (476), or how "preparing to go to school was about like getting ready for extended Deep-Sea Diving" (477). The author is trying to make this story personal. He wants it to touch a certain group of interest. He makes it personal and casual by using first person. 

CHARACTERIZATION

     The characters in this story are very simple and believable. The narrator of the story is a common every day kid, and his entire family is a very believable family.It is a common thing for a father to get upset and curse when a broken furnace causes him a lot of work. (482) Finding a mother slaving away in the kitchen in the 50's happens all the time. (489) This fact continues to make the story feel personal, like a Taylor Swift song (It's my thing, I had to reference her). The commonness of the family being discussed in the story makes it feel like they could be the family that was your childhood.

SETTING

The setting of this story is set in about the 50's. The entertainment that they talk about makes it seem so. For example, "Open Road For Boys... an earlier Playboy" (475) It is a small town and an average family of the time. It is set in Christmas time. It takes place mostly at The Narrator's home or Warren G. Harding School. The town is very simple, which makes it easy to imagine.

 

THEME

     The theme of this story is that childhood would be nothing without the wonder and magic of toys "A single word floated into my mind's arena for just an instant- 'Canal water!'- and then disappeared". (475) After seeing the old ladies pin, the narrator becomes enraged and feels the need to prove to himself that Childhood was wonderful because of his toys, specifically his Red Ryder BB Gun.