The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
“The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind,” by Ray Bradbury presents a surface story to its readers. Each town has a border which surrounds their town and is shaped in a certain way. The walls are used to see who is the most powerful and strongest. For example, a town called Kwan-Si has a wall shaped like a pig and another town has the shape of an orange. The Mandarin, an official in the Chinese Empire, says that the pig can devour the orange at any moment. This means that more people are going to show up in Kwan-Si which results in more prosperity and more resources. The other town will die, increase in poverty, and will not prosper. The mandarin says in the text, “The city shaped like an orange! No! I will enter the city shaped like a pig and prosper,
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In the short story, “The Golden kite, The Silver Wind,” Ray Bradbury emphasizes and demonstrates the need to work together and not find everything as a competition. For example, Mandarin’s daughter took the two mandarins outside and showed them the landscape which included the sky, wind, and different colored kites. She showed them that the kites make the winds beautiful and the winds allow the kites to be sustained and gorgeous. She said in the text, “You, Kwan-Si, will make a last rebuilding of your town to resemble nothing more nor less than the wind. And we shall build like a golden kite. The wind will beautify the kite and carry it to wondrous heights. And the kite will break the sameness of the wind's existence and give it purpose and meaning. One without the other is nothing.” When the daughter says one without the other is nothing, she is saying that by working together there is cooperation and peace. This short story was published during the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The daughter may be referring to the cold war and the two enemies working together side by side instead of destroying and killing myriad amounts of people. When one does not work together when needed, they will face certain consequences that are sometimes fatal. For example, when the mandarin decides to counter-attack everything the other town, sickness spread in the city, food
In the short story, “The Golden kite, The Silver Wind,” Ray Bradbury emphasizes and demonstrates the need to work together and not find everything as a competition. For example, Mandarin’s daughter took the two mandarins outside and showed them the landscape which included the sky, wind, and different colored kites. She showed them that the kites make the winds beautiful and the winds allow the kites to be sustained and gorgeous. She said in the text, “You, Kwan-Si, will make a last rebuilding of your town to resemble nothing more nor less than the wind. And we shall build like a golden kite. The wind will beautify the kite and carry it to wondrous heights. And the kite will break the sameness of the wind's existence and give it purpose and meaning. One without the other is nothing.” When the daughter says one without the other is nothing, she is saying that by working together there is cooperation and peace. This short story was published during the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The daughter may be referring to the cold war and the two enemies working together side by side instead of destroying and killing myriad amounts of people. When one does not work together when needed, they will face certain consequences that are sometimes fatal. For example, when the mandarin decides to counter-attack everything the other town, sickness spread in the city, food