Kamikaze

• Who wrote kamikaze?

  Beatrice garland
• There is an impassable divide between individual desire and extreme patriotism, especially in a society that places great cultural importance on notions of honour
• Garland reflects on the phycological pull of dying in supposed glory
• The conflict between love and honour, between personal desire and patriotic duty, isolates both soldiers and their loved ones
• "enough fuel for a one way journey into history"
• "enough fuel for a one way journey into history"

  • Actual fuel or metaphorical fuel?

  -motivation / commitment due to duty to country. Patriotism+ pride

  • Double meaning "into history"

  -events of epic proportion in wwII - glory

  -about to die and become past tense