Kamikaze

• What is a summary of kamikaze?


  a kamikaze pilot is flying when reminded of childhood, turns around and is shunned by society
• true or false, the grandfather is telling this story to his grandchildren?


  false, his daughter is telling it to her children
• ‘one-way journey into history‘
• ‘little fishing boats strung out like bunting‘
• what is the impact of describing the fish bellow as ‘like a huge flag‘?

  shows his patriotism and how its not necessary to die for his country
• ‘dark shoals of fishes flashing silver‘
• what impact does the sibilance have in the quote ‘safe to the shore, salt-sodden’?


  sound of planes soaring or the sea
• ‘a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.’
• what is connoted from the quote ‘the dark price, muscular , dangerous‘?


  danger of kamikaze vs safety of home
• ‘gradually we too learned to be silent‘
• what is the impact of the contrast between the two quotes ‘we children still chattered and laughed‘ and ‘gradually we too learned to be silent‘?


  childhood innocence vs societal expectations
• ‘which had been the better way to die‘
• what’s the impact of the quote ‘he must have wondered which had been the better way to die‘?

  bleak view to end the poem on, she has come to see the treatment of her father was wrong