Nerf Guns

The author of “How Nerf Became the World’s Best Purveyor of Big Guns for Kids” starts of him article similarly to the author of Black Hole. They both start off with suspense. In the Nerf Gun article the author uses the first paragraph to set up the article as almost a mission impossible. The question of if it possible to make a gun that can hold 50 darts and fire 75 feet. One thing that keep me interested and I am sure this is true is that the topic of Nerf products relates to out childhood. Back in the day when we would save our allowance to buy the newest and biggest Nerf Gun to crush our friends. It made me think of countless Nerf Wars in my basement and stairway with cousins and friends. The YouTube videos of “modding” the guns also reminded me of being a kid when my cousin and I would raid the toolbox to edit our Nerf Guns to make them better. The article makes you feel like a kid again. Since your attention is drawn the author then writes about the history of Nerf and surprised me with the fact that this branch of Hasbro made $410 million in 2011. That is a lot of Nerf products. The whole article is written to make these toys seem as a very serious topic. The tone says constant with this serious mode through the article. The ending wraps it up well. The gun can fire over 75 feet and then a swarm of kids run in the complex and go crazy with the new toys. I thought it was a very cool article about Nerf and their blasters.