Amir tells us his mother died giving birth to him and Hassan's mother – her name was Sanaubar – left soon after Hassan was born.It's nowhere near as opulent as Baba's house. Amir takes us inside the little shack where Ali and Hassan, their servants, live.Finally, there's one of little Amir in his father's arms Rahim Khan stands off to the side. Some of Baba's cabinets have a few pictures: Amir's grandfather and King Nadir Shah and one of Amir's father and mother on their wedding night.Baba, Amir's father, has a smoking room in the house but he doesn't let Amir hang out there.It has rosebushes, marble floors, mosaic tiles, and gold-stitched tapestries. Amir describes his childhood home, built by his father.Hassan often takes the blame if the two troublemakers get caught.
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For the boy, he learns that things you value are not easily lost and the kite learns that the urge to break away and be free is often fraught with unexpected dangers.
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The boy manages to patch the kite so that it can fly again and both boy and toy learn a valuable lesson. The boy starts crying at the loss of his beloved kite, yet when he sees it plummeting from the sky and lodging in a tree he climbs the tree and retrieves it. However, being free also means being at the mercy of the wind currents and the kite crashes into a tree. Finally, the kite’s efforts are “rewarded” and the string snaps and the kite soars away. Despite the height it achieves, the kite wants to fly even higher and farther, exceeding the distance that the boy will allow.
The kite has a sturdy frame, which allows it to fly high and tug very strongly on the string. In this case, the beloved toy is a beautiful kite and a young boy spent every penny he had to acquire it.
I highly recommend The Kite and the Boy for any family or school library.Īlthough we humans naturally tend to assign human emotions to the toys and other objects we hold dear, we all have experienced situations where they do seem to have an independent mental existence. It is also a tale of forgiveness and the beauty of redemption. It is a lesson that we may not always reach the heights we want to until we are ready to do so. The Kite and the Boy is a beautiful, simple story of how our desires can make us lose sight of what really matters. Will the boy find the kite again? Will the kite be able to fly with the boy again? At first, the kite enjoyed the new heights until he realized something was wrong. The kite continued to fight, trying to fly higher until his string snapped and he was carried away by a strong wind. One day, the kite noticed a flock of birds were flying higher than he was and he wanted to fly higher too. All summer long, the boy took the kite flying and the kite loved soaring and swooping in the sky. The boy immediately put his initials on the kite and took it flying.
Each day that hope was dashed until one day when a boy bought him. A kite lived in the window of a toy store and each day he hoped to be taken home. The Kite and the Boy by Aaron Duffy and illustrated by Kary Haaland Greene is the story of a kite who longed to fly higher and higher until he learns that fly high isn’t so grand.
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