The Blue Kite

From: Patricia Niedzwiecki To: "patricia.beck@bbh.com" Date: 10/07/2015 08:19 PM Subject: Zack Zack Niedzwiecki COR 330 Professor Esckilsen October 7, 2015 "The Blue Kite": An Homage to the Unseverable Bonds of Family and Humanity A Beijing street filled with the bustle and hum of children playing games and kicking up dust from an unpaved courtyard. The excitement of an impending marriage -- a young couple surrounded by relatives and friends coming together to welcome them to their new home and celebrate the union. This opening scene, earnest in its wholesomeness, belies the tumult of the backdrop -- Communist China during the 1950s and 1960s -- some of the most unsettled years in the country's long history. The juxtaposition…

events through complex plots and characters. They make past events personal and understandable, even to foreign audiences. Tian ZhuangZhaung’s Blue Kite, like others in China’s Fifth Generation, is a leading example of such films. Despite having a historical and a political narrative unique to China, the film is relatable. Blue Kite’s plot is simple but not common. The film follows the life of a family in Beijing from the early 1950s to the 1960s. Major conflicts and changes in the family…

A rather depressing movie, “The Blue Kite” recalls the story of a small, poor family in China, in the 50’s and 60’s, during the hundred flowers movement, and the ‘cultural revolution’. We follow the family through various phases of their lives, starting from the 50’s, at the start of the communist regime. One could say the initially positive outlook in the Chinese community is visible in all the characters living in the compound. However, we see this positivity turn to discontent and a feeling…

chapter 7, it is the winter of 1975, the kite tournament is control in Amir’s neighborhood. Typically every neighborhood has its own competition, however the close districts can contend along now. a number of days before the tournament, cake nonchalantly tells swayer he could win. an awesome need to win seizes swayer as swayer thinks this can earn him Baba’s approval. The day of the competition comes. The tournament lasts all day, and swayer is doing well. He will see cake sitting on a upside,…

Hassan and Amir, had decided to buy a kite and take it for a run, even though Hassan was the best kite flyer in Kabul. He knew where the kite would land before it even touched the ground. During the tournament, Hassan and Amir were the last people in the sky. When they cut the string, Hassan went to catch the kite, to win the tournament. When Aamir noticed that Hassan was taking too long, he decided to go looking for him. He found his cornered by Assef, a bully. Assesf then had decided to…

A symbolic feature of losing innocence can be the kite. The last time Amir and Hassan flew a kite was the last time they were both innocent. So the kite might represent the good before the bad. It represents innocence before it is taken in the novel. But it also represents how Hassan lost his innocence by being raped because he was trying to save the kite for Amir. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was…

Questions for Kite Prototype 1. Name, describe, and provide links of the five different box kites that were found in the research. The first box kite found in the research was a traditional box kite at http://www.my-best-kite.com/box-kites.html. The traditional box kite has a square base with a longer height, and crossbars are included to support the traditional box kite. An example of lengths for a traditional box kite could be 12 inches by 12 inches by 36 inches. The second box kite, known…

Moon Shadow tells the reader about how his dad works next to golden mountain doing laundry and some of the money he makes goes back to his mother and him. Then one day his cousin comes to them and asks Moon Shadow's mother if Moon Shadow can go work with his dad to help make more money so goes to San Francisco. Moon Shadows goes on a boat with his cousin hand clap to San Francisco but when they get to San Francisco it was not what Moonshadow expected they were nowhere near the golden mountain. …

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

Langston Hughes Poems Langston Hughes born in Missouri around 1902 wrote many poems, which were evolved around the African American people. Rejected by the African American community for his thoughts, Hughes felt a deep sense of passion to poetically write of the struggles faced by many impoverished African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes used poetry to convey the African American cultural through a rhythm and blues style about dreams, suffering, the soul, and America.…