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Literary notes about kite (AI summary)

In literature, the word “kite” is imbued with multiple layers of meaning that range from a literal bird to a symbol of human ingenuity and freedom. In some works, it appears as a living creature endowed with human traits or emotions—for instance, a speaking kite that boasts of its strength or a troubled kite expressing sorrow ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts, the kite is portrayed as a playful contrivance and an emblem of adventure, whether as a child's toy inspiring endless joy ([4], [5]) or as an instrument pivotal to scientific discovery ([6]). Moreover, its presence often functions metaphorically to reflect broader themes, such as ambition and the balance between freedom and restraint, reinforcing its enduring symbolic resonance in literary imagination ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. “Take me,” returned the Kite, “I am much stronger than you are.”
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  2. The Sick Kite A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother!
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  3. The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  4. A freed kite sails over the roofs; there is great fun in catching it.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  5. I wonder if I should blossom out half as well as you have, if I tried it?" said Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi, in the topsy-turvy nursery.
    — from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
  6. "This was May 10th, 1752, one month before Franklin flew his famous kite at Philadelphia and proved the fact himself.
    — from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  7. Yet, returned Panurge, I saw but even now a pretty kind of a cooing abbess-kite as white as a dove, and her I had rather ride than lead.
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
  8. Now my life on the veld has given me the eyes of a kite, and I can see things for which most men need a telescope ...
    — from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  9. And yet—and yet—one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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