Golden Kite, Silver wind

Presentation by Lily Geller, Zoe Tatarka, Rachel Rengpraphun, Erin Fletcher

By Ray BradburyPublished in 1953

About The Author~Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920.

~He started writing right after high school, and often wrote at least one story per week.

~He has lived in Tucson, Arizona and in Los Angeles, CA.

~He is a celebrated American science fiction author.

~He won the World Fantasy Award and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America.

~Random fact: He helped design Epcot in Disney Parks

Other Works By Ray Bradbury

● Fahrenheit 451● The Martian Chronicles● The Illustrated Man● Something Wicked This Way

Comes● Dandelion Wine● The Sound of Thunder and Other

Stories● Dark Carnival

● The Mandarin’s hometown (a farming village) in China.

● It takes place over a few months● There was a competitive feeling

throughout the book.● Takes place in China when the

majority of the population lived in farming villages, and when men believed that they were superior to women.

Description of Setting

Characters Mandarin ~ The leader of a small Chinese village, superstitious, anxious, wants what’s best for his people, bossy, ambitious; flat and dynamic; characterized through his thoughts and actions.

Mandarin’s Daughter ~ Wise, modest, helpful, is the real reason the villages eventually came to peace; flat and dynamic; Characterized through her other character’s opinions of her and her actions.

Mandarin of Kwan-Si ~ ambitious, much like first Mandarin but they do not get along; flat and dynamic; characterized through other characters opinions of him, his effect on other characters, and his actions.

Summary● The mandarin of Kwan-Si changes his town’s formation into a pig.● The mandarin thinks of this as a pig eating an orange, which is their

town. He decides to change his town’s formation into a club to drive the pig away.

● Both mandarin’s continued to direct the stonemasons to change the shape of their towns.

● The towns and mandarins become sick and famished.● The mandarin’s daughter talks to both men telling them to have the towns

rebuilt into a golden kite and silver wind. ● The mandarins agreed to rebuild their towns into a kite and wind because

they support and help each other.

Plot Diagram

Exposition Inciting Incident

Rising

Acti

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Resolution

The two kingdoms begin to build the walls as a golden kite and the silver wind and start to thrive again.

The towns become known as the town of the Golden kite and the town of the Silver wind because of their shapes.

The mandarin decides to hold a meeting with the Kwan- Si mandarin about their city walls.

1. The mandarin, using his daughter's idea, decides to rebuild their city walls as a bludgeon to beat the pig to show that their kingdom is superior

Climax

3.The Mandarin changes his walls as a lake to drown the fire

4.Kwan- Si changes walls to a mouth to drink the lake 5.The Mandarin changes walls

to a needle to sew up the mouth

6.Kwan- Si makes walls sword to break the needle 7.The Mandarin

makes walls scabbard to sheathe the sword

8.Kwan- Si makes walls lightning to destroy the sheath

The kingdom of Kwan- Si changes their walls to a pig

9. The constant rebuilding of the walls causes the kingdoms to fall into poverty.

2.Kwan- Si changes their walls to a bonfire to burn the budgeon

Point of View● The story is told in third person limited

omniscient point of view. That means that the narrator tells the thoughts of one of the characters but the narrator is not a character in the story.

● The point of view enhances the story because it shows the mandarin’s character development and gives the reader an insight to his thoughts and the lessons that he learns.

Technique

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This story uses the technique of allegory. Allegory is a poem, play, picture, etc. in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper meaning or spiritual meaning.1 In this case, each village was trying to top the other in the power of the shape of their villages. This story was written during the time of the Cold War, when much of the same thing was happening between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union. The story was an allegory for the political situation of the world at that time.

The Symbolism of the Walls● Walls symbolize barriers between people and the idea that

people want to appear stronger and wiser than their opponents.

● Both Mandarins competed against each other to see who could build the better shaped wall to surround their town.

● By building walls in the shape of a golden kite and silver wind it showed that there was unity between the two towns and that the barriers between them no longer existed.

Theme● The story teaches us that we should help one

another and work together.● The kite and wind support each other; the

kite cannot fly without wind and the wind needs a kite to make it beautiful.

● The story also teaches us that wisdom comes in many forms.

● The mandarin’s daughter surprised him by coming up with ways to solve his problems which made him realize that girls could be just as smart as boys.

RatingWe would give this short story two out of three stars.

We would give The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind two stars because:

● The techniques Bradbury uses, such as an allegory, adds to the deeper meaning of the story. It forces you to truly think about what the author is trying to say.

● However, the short story lost a star due to its original rushed and fairly uneventful plot line

● Lastly, all the characters are flat characters. The simple and predictable characters cause for a slightly tedious short story.

Citations1. "allegory." Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th

Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 07 Oct. 2015. <Dictionary.com

2. Haq, Husna. “Ray Bradbury’s 10 Best Books.” The Christian Science Monitor. Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2012. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. <http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/0606/Ray-Bradbury-s-10-best-books/Fahrenheit-451>.

urlshttp://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1361491094p5/1630.jpg (Ray Bradbury Picture)

http://content.mycutegraphics.com/graphics/kite/yellow-kite.png (kite Picture)

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/v/Z/k/s/Q/7/swirl-branch-hi.png (wind Picture)

http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/upfiles/2009-07/13/a_look_at_daily_life_in_ancient_china2c6691735f05bc5410c6.jpg (Setting Ancient China Picture)

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t/outline-short-stone-fence-cartoon-boundary-53833098.jpg (wall)

http://www.induswomanwriting.com/images/the-paintbrush-part-1-21488770.jpg (paintbrush picture)

http://userscontent2.emaze.com/images/5738cce7-e1e8-437d-a9e2-1832b3b08109/ba4820e3-1368-431b-a30a-9f31cf2bb119.jpg (cold war pic)

https://socialskillsuitcase.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/thought-bubble.jpg (thought bubble)

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLjFzv0aJl1oQ6For_1ZUx92aoZyuxOBj6V4AhOV8lxHzi-WbCXg (Theme working together)

https://sorrytelevision.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/fahrenheit-451.jpg (Farenheit 451)

https://itrustronfreeman.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/9eb2c060ada06dbad060c110.jpeg (The Martian Chronicles)

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/7497/9203789_2.jpg?v=8CC61FB2571D520 (The Illustrated Man)

http://forums.newtek.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=78110&d=1254923628 (two mandarins)

The End

ResponsibilitiesErin● Title Slide - 1 pt. - 2 mins● About the Author - 5 pts. - 10 mins● Technique - 10 pts. - 20 mins● Character - 5 pts. - 20 mins.● Citations - 9 pts. - cumulative 5 mins.● End Slide

Zoe● Citations - 9 pts. - cumulative 5

mins.● Plot Diagram- 10pts.- 50 mins● Review slide- 15 mins

Lily● Title Slide - 1 pt. - 2 mins● Citations - 9 pts. cumulative 5 mins.● Other Works - 5 pts. - 20 mins.● Point of view - 10 pts. - 25 mins.● Symbolism - 10 pts. - 35 mins.● Part of Theme - 10 pts. - 15 mins.

Rachel● Title Slide - 1 pt. - 2 mins.● Citations - 9 pts. - cumulative 5

mins.● Setting - 5pts. - 10 mins.● Primary Characters - 5pts.-25mins.● Summary - 5pts. - 20 mins.● Theme - 10 pts. - 20 mins

We all added visuals - 5 pts.And we edited/added to each other’s slides.