Kamikaze Flashcards

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Who wrote kamikaze

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Beatrice garland

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Form

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Mostly third person (pilots daughter)

Absence of the pilots voice shows he’s been cut off from society and third person emphasises that

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Structure

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First 5 stanzas is one sentence which covers the account of the pilots flight as the pilots daughter imagines it. End of the sentence represents the plane landing and the final stanzas deal with the fallout of the pilots actions

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Irony

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The way he’s treated when he returns to his family is ironic because they act as if he’s dead - society

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Quote

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Embarked - suggest msg that it will be a journey to his death

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Quote

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At the little fishing boats strung out like bunting - ironic , bunting is associated with celebration but there’s no victorious return for the pilot

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Auote

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Arcing is swathes like a huge boat waved first one way - to stop the man from completing his mission

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Quotes

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On a green-blue translucent sea

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Quotes

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Shoals/fishes/as/bellies swivelled towards the sun

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Quote

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And once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous - remind the reader of the dangers of nature

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Quotes

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They treated him as if he no longer existed - irony, he survived but is treated as if he is dead
No longer the father we loved

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Quote

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He must have wonderd which had been he better way to die - destructiveness of patriotism - ashamed

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