Ready, Aim, Fire Analysis

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Throughout the book one of the things that I was able to see is the repetition of the saying “ Ready, aim, fire!” Where at first I thought that this saying this not have any meaning behind it. But after seeing the repetition of it It made me understand how it had a meaning. One of the things that I was also able to see throughout the book is how the author integrates significant issues from the past. An example is when Kenny and Rufus play the World’s Greatest Dinosaur War Ever. I was able to see that It was referring to World War 2 from “ That was because someone had to be the American dinosaur s and someone had to be the Nazi one” (37). The fact that the author decides to integrate this into the book as a child’s game suggests the idea

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