Analysis Of Choices In Ray Bradbury's The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind

“Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem in our life comes to break us or make us, the choice is ours whether we become the victim or the victor.” Choices can either make or break someone's life. This theme statement is shown throughout the short story “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind,” the short story “The Interlopers,” and the article “Teens who Expect to Die Young.” All these sources are about how choices can affect someone in a positive, or in a negative way.

The short story, “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind,” by Ray Bradbury explains how two emperors were greedy and made unethical choices while competing against one another. In this short story, the emperor's work their citizens too hard, that all the citizens turned ill. They do this by ordering the citizens to build different types of wall symbols. This then spiritually makes the emperors ill too. In the quote,“Sickness spread in the city like a pack of evil dogs. Shops closed” (Bradbury 2). This quote is expressing how all citizens

This short story is about two landowners and how they are rivals. Both the men followed each other into the wood for a final battle, but sadly, a tree fell on both men, and they were trapped. The men were forced to work together to try to survive. The next key point is the choice both men made to follow one another into the woods. If this choice had not had been made, they would both be still alive. When the men were bragging about “their men” coming first to rescue them, they were being over confident. They were telling each other the horrible things they would do to each other. This choice they made to brag was inconsiderate, and a bad choice as both men were killed later on. In conclusion, the bad choices the two men made led to both their deaths because of going into the woods in the first place, and being too over