Kamikaze Flashcards
1
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Quotes p.1.
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“Her father embarked at sunrise”
“a one-way journey into history”
“recounting it later to her children”
“little fishing boats strung out like bunting”
“on a green-blue translucent sea”
“like a huge flag”
“dark shoals of fishes flashing silver”
“remembered how”
2
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Quotes p.2.
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“his brothers waiting”
“built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”
“shore, salt-sodden, awash”
“a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
“And though he came back”
“my mother never spoke again in his presence”
“nor did she meet his eyes”
“gradually we too learned to be silent” (children)
“live as though he had never returned”
“he must have wondered which had been the better way to die”
3
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STRUCTURE
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- First 5 stanzas form one sentence
- First 5 stanzas cover an account of pilots flight as pilots daughter imagines it
- End of sentence represents plane landing
- Final 2 stanzas deal with the fallout of pilots actions
4
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FORM
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- Mostly narrated in third person; reported speech of pilot’s daughter
- Her voice heard directly in later stanzas
- Absence of pilot’s voice (show he’s been cut off from society)
- Third person emphasises distance between pilot and daughter
