The Golden Kite and the Silver
Wind
By: Ray Bradbury
PowerPoint By: Lily McCook,
Caroline Willis, Bailee Decker,
and Auryan Esfandiari
About the Author
Ray Douglas Bradbury
• Born August 22, 1920
• Born in Waukegan, Illinois
• His most famous books are Fahrenheit 451,
Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The
Martian Chronicles
Basic Information
• Protagonist-The
Mandarin
• Antagonist-The
Mandarin of Kwan-Si
• Setting-China, 14th
century
• Perspective-third person
limited
Conflict
• Man vs. Man-the two towns are competing
over who has the dominant wall shape
Rising Action
• Kwan-Si builds their wall in the shape of a pig
to eat the other town’s orange shaped wall
• The two towns then start competing
• Hunger and disease plague both cities because
they are too busy to harvest crops or tend to
stores
• The Mandarin’s daughter sends for the
Mandarin of Kwan-Si
Climax
The two Mandarins decide to build their
towns in the shape of a kite and the wind to
signify their dependence on one another. Their
walls will show that they trust and help each
other.
Falling Action
• The towns build the new walls
• There is no longer a famine and everything
goes back to the way it was, except now, the
two rival towns are friends.
• The towns are protected and comforted by
their companionship
Denouement
The towns become The Town of the Silver
Wind and The Town of the Golden Kite, and they
prosper in their friendship. The two towns feel
protected and beautified by each other.
The Mandarins decide
to shape their walls
like a golden kite and
silver wind.
The cities
compete over
wall shape.
The cities
become
friendly and
prosperous.
The towns support
and beautify each
other.
The Mandarin
first learns
that the other
city is trying to
compete.
Plot Summary
Two Chinese towns start
competing over the shape of
the walls surrounding their city.
The Mandarin’s daughter
whispers directions to her
father and he relays these to
the people of his town. In the
end, she tells the two
Mandarins to make peace. The
two towns stop fighting and
this brings peace and
prosperity to both towns.
Literary Devices
• This is an allegory because the entire story
symbolizes the Cold War between the United States
and the Soviet Union
Symbols:
• Walls-weapons
• Wind and Kite- when the United States and the
Soviet Union finally make peace
• Mandarin-President
• Messenger-spy
Theme
Theme-It is much easier to have friends than it is
to have enemies.