7/7/2023 0 Comments Kite fighting 1960 afganistanTo become a kite fighter, a person needs a kite and a very sharp string. You have to keep feeding string once a fight starts. Zabi Rahime says, "You have to be careful when you are in charge of the spool. People who enter kite fighting competitions "need two guys to fight - one takes the string and the other steers" (Duncan). Regardless of how many people compete in any game of Kite Fighting, the game ends when only one person's kite remains in the air. Sometimes the competition takes place between "two kite flyers" ("Kite Fighting"), and sometimes the competition takes place between "many kite flyers" who "compete with each other simultaneously" ("Kite Flying"). Kite fighting is a very serious competition. In Afghanistan, the game of Kite Fighting is more than a game. is to fight them, and a single kite aloft is nothing but an unspoken challenge to a neighbor: Bring it on!" (Semple). Because Kite Fighting has become a sport in Afghanistan, "Afghans will tell you" that the "sole reason for kites. Knowing more about the importance of kite fighting to people from Afghanistan will make the kite fights that happen in The Kite Runner seem more important to characters like Amir, Hassan, and Sohrab.Īhmad Roshazi, a translator who works in Afghanistan near the town of Bagram, says that men in Afghanistan "don't have, like, soccer, baseball or basketball." Because Afghanistan has "no green places," Roshazi says that Kite Fighting "is the only game we have every Friday. To understand Amir's kite fight on the day when Hassan gets raped and Amir's kite fight on the day when he runs a kite for Sohrab, one needs to know a little bit about kite fighting. To better understand The Kite Runner, readers should get to know more about kite fighting and kite running. Kite Running and Kite Fighting are both part of that culture. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini writes about the culture of Afghanistan.
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