Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kamikaze
- Link to conflict
- Conflict
between the
rules and
honour of
society and the
desire to
survive and
return to family
- Link to power
- The power of the Japanese government and the power if
family influence the men's lives
- Structure
- Uses italics for an aside to maybe show the
daughter speaking to her own children and how
these choices has cast a shadow on her history
- Key quotes
- "A one way journey into history"
- "Shaved head full of powerful incantations"
- Metaphor- for a journey into history
- "A green-blue translucent sea"
- "My mother never spoke again"
- "We learned to be silent"
- "Learned" shows this behaviour
Is to natural and was forced
upon her, that she now realises
and regrets this.
- Context
- It was
considered a
great honour
in Japan to
die for your
country.
- The pilot in this
poem returns
home and is
rejected from his
family forever.
- Questions at the end which death
would of been better, to die as a
kamikaze pilot young or to grow old
with a family who shut you out.