KITE RUNNER: Paz X Terrorismo

Este projeto surgiu com as indagações da 8ª série, após a realização de uma prova de vestibular de Inglês , onde havia um texto sobre os caçadores de pipa no Afeganistão.
A turma questionou o massacre cultural empreendido durante o regime Talibã e a conversa incluiu outros grupos considerados terroristas.
Decidimos, então, realizar um projeto interdisciplinar incluindo as disciplinas de Geografia e Inglês, a fim de se entender melhor o terrorismo e pensar em possíveis soluções para a promoção da paz.
Compartilhamos o trabalho com as demais turmas, debatemos sobre as diversas práticas de terrorismo, questionamos sobre violência entre adolescentes, conhecida como Bulling, e o que nos cabe fazer para promover a paz onde estamos.
Após, essas reflexões idealizamos esta instalação com o objetivo de transmitir os conhecimentos adquiridos e o nosso anseio pela paz no mundo.
O painel com a palavra PAZ traduzida em vários idiomas, realizado pela 5ª e 7ª séries, simboliza o nosso desejo de um mundo mais pacifico onde a diversidade cultural é respeitada.
O chão ganhou tons de vermelho para lembrar as vidas perdidas e o nome dos principais atentados e organizações terroristas simboliza a nossa vontade de acabar/enterrar o terrorismo.
Por fim, as pipas com mensagens de paz demonstram o nosso anseio de “correr” em busca da paz e da liberdade com a mesma determinação dos caçadores de pipa no Afeganistão.

Abaixo segue o texto que nos motivou a desenvolver este trabalho.

 

THE KITE RUNNER

 As anyone who has read the best-selling novel The Kite Runner knows, springtime in Kabul is announced by flocks of kites. But these aren't the kites of lazy weekend picnics. They are flying machines. The Afghan tendency for competition and gambling means that almost anything offers opportunity for a fight, from dogs to cocks, and even kites. The object of this cruel ballet is to slice your opponents' string with yours, sending the defeated paper jewel spiraling to the streets below. Packs of boys too poor to buy their own kites, race for it so that they too can enter the dispute. They are the kite runners.

In a country where most success stories are haunted by failure, about the only thing going right these days is the kite making industry. One of the impulsive moves of the Taliban regime, along with the banning of music and the requirement that all men grow beards, was a total prohibition of kite flying.

In the first days after the fall of the Taliban in December 2001, men shaved, music was played on car stereos and kites took to the air. For Noor Agha, Kabul's best kite maker, business has been soaring ever since.

Agha has been feverishly at work producing hundreds of kites for use in China on the set of the highly anticipated adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Agha says he treats every kite he is making for the movie as a work of art, marking each with his name and signature scorpion image.

Even though few of the kites will be used in competition, he incorporates in their manufacture the techniques he has developed through years of flying and fighting. "Making kites is my job," he says. "Fighting them is my disease."

(Adapted from: Time, February 22, 2007)