Kite Quotes

Kite has just killed a foxbear to save Gon and proposed killing its orphaned cub. His approval arrives only after Gon refuses that second killing and holds the animal through its scratches. That sequence gives this pleasant professional ideal an awkward edge. Getting along cannot mean never harming animals; Kite's own rescue has already ruled that out. Gon demonstrates another possibility by accepting care of the creature left behind. The reassuring rule is less interesting than the child's refusal to let the expert decide what care permits.

Kite has just saved Gon from a foxbear, and the forest's warning signs support his anger at the boy's ignorance. His question nevertheless assumes a father was available to teach him. Gon answers that he believes both parents died. A few pages later, Kite identifies Ging as the teacher he credits with his survival. That reversal makes the rebuke uncomfortable: the man he expects to have educated Gon is the man whose lessons Kite received while Gon grew up without him. His gratitude as a pupil cannot answer the child's experience of an absent parent.