Kamikaze

Question 1

CONTEXT

Answer 1

• kamikaze pilot setting off on his mission, seen as a great honor
• the pilot turned around and didnt conplete his mission
• his daughter says this is bc he saw beauty of nature
• he was shunned once he returned home

Question 2

“ Like a huge flag waved first one way
then the other in a figure of eight”

Answer 2

• simile, patriotism, infinity symbol eternal death

Question 3

“the loose silver of whitebait and once
a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”

Answer 3

• colour imagery used to make nature precious
• dangers of nature
• full stop singifies end of flight - should have ended in death, but instead the pilot returns to his family.

Question 4

“till gradually we too learned
to be silent”

Answer 4

• ## sad irony, he chose his fmaily but they rejected him

Question 5

“ And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered
Which had been a better way to die”

Answer 5

• short sentence criticizing patriotism, the pilots family have learned to be ashamed of him.
• this patriotic culture meant that eaither way he would be dead, physically or emotionally shunned.

Question 6

“strung out like bunting”

Answer 6

simile
Positive image with connotations of celebration. Ironic due to the nature of the situation. Symbolise joy and patriotism.

Question 7

** COMPARISONS **

Answer 7

Power of Memory
-Poppies “hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind” compare to
“And remembered how he”
innocence and the strenghth of childhood memories
-“smoothed down ur shirts upturned collar.”
-“ they treated him as though he never existed”
difference in perspective, maternal loving, shunned and treated as if he was dead due to society