The Importance Of Walls In The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind

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Walls are to protect.But the narrator in “The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind” does not show this.This story is a battle between two cities using walls.Also it shows valuable ungood and good trait. The character, the mandarin, by Ray Bradbury changes from being competitive and melancholy to being forgiveful and makes peace with the other city. At first when the reader first meets the mandarin, (whom is the emperor) he is furious with the other city of making their wall a pig. After a messenger tells the mandarin Kwan-Si is building a pig shaped wall, he got mad and somewhat worried about their own city wall. The mandarin answering to his daughter, “Our city wall is built in the shape of an orange,” and “[t]hat pig will devour us,greedly,” (366).Because the mandarin believes that their own city wall shaped like an orange would be eaten by the other city’s wall shaped into a pig and wanted revenge.After that, he asks his builders to make the city walls into a club to beat the pig without actually doing anything physically, just resembling it or a symbol to …show more content…

This story just portrays the risks of what a battle can end, start, and keep afterwards therefore that readers know that no one is a true winner in a dispute without a