Kamikaze V1 Flashcards
What person is kamikaze in
Third person
Meaning of kamikaze what can the meaning infer
Divine wind (non human entity)
What does the unstructured story show
That the daughter puts her interpretations in the story reinforcing that the father does not have a say
What is stanza 1 like
List like stanza, which liste of the items that a kamikaze pilot needs ‘flask of water,a samurai sword in the cockpit,a shaven head full of powerful incantations’: makes it seems very simple and straightforward but physcologically is not
Link between stanza 1 and 2
Contrast between the almost dehumanising image of the pilot’s ‘shaven head full of powerful incantations ‘and ‘she thought’ in the first line if the next stanza
‘Journey into history’
Dramatic irony
What doesthe pilotks head full of powerful incantations represent
How he is under the spell up patriotism and propoganda and is forced to follow orders (not think)
What was the reason that the father came back ( daughters idea)
Daugter goes on and on about how the father came back due to to nature emphasing the pull of nature and the force it carries
Simile examples
Little fishing boats strung out like bunting
Arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way then the other
Dark shoals of foshes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun
Langauge of colour examples
Green blue translucent sea
Flashing silver
Pearl-grey
Cloud-marked
Black
Silver
Dark
What does the langauge of colour in the poem make us the reader feel for the pilot
Langauge of colour makes everything more beautifull making us more sympathetic for the pikot’s decision to return
Why is it ironic that the pilot remebered spending time with his family during his time in the plane
Pilot had a memory of childhood and family which draws him back but when he does his family doesn’t acknowledge him
What does the 6 lines on each stanza show and what does the lack of rhythm and rhyme represent
6 lines each stanza which shows the strict military rules you have to follow as a kamikaze pilot however the lack of rhythm and rhyme represents how the father doesn’t follow the orders
How do people treat the father now that he has come back and give examples
‘My mother never spoke again …… and neighbours too …. treated him like he no longer existed’ and ‘only we children sill chattered and laughed’
Some family and other people treats the father like he doesn’t exist like if he had died due to his actions to not die for his country however the children still remember and acknowledge him.
What does the italics represent
First person,direct voice/daughters voice
‘And sometimes, she said he must have wondered’ what does does the must have show
Daughter being assumptious to what the father thought then to just tell him
‘Which would have been a better way to die’ what does this mean
1) physically dead due to kamikaze
2)metaphorically dead since peiple don’t view him or acknowledge him due to him turning back
Dead either way which shows the restrictions of society at the time and criticism of society at the time, people expected people to be more then what was capable mentally and physically of humans
And remembered how he and his brothers
‘Live as though he never returned’
Flask if water, a samurai sword in the cockpit and a shaven head full of powerful incantations
This was no longer the father we loved
