Kite culture can be seen all over the streets of the capital, Kabul when the skies are filled with colourful kites soaring in the wind. Kite flying is a custom in Afghanistan, and every year in early spring there is a huge kite festival where many children will exert their year-long strength to try and make their kite the best. Through their recent study of migrants and the refugee crisis in Humanities, Year 6 students came to understand the reality of what people in these situations face. In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war.” (Hosseini, The Kite Runner, P.43)
I felt like a soldier trying to sleep in the trenches the night before a major battle. I’d roll from side to side, make shadow animals on the wall, even sit on the balcony in the dark, a blanket wrapped around me. I never slept the night before the tournament. If you were a boy living in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season. 'Every winter, districts in Kabul held a kite-fighting tournament. To understand the backstory you have to go back to the best selling book, The Kite Runner:
