Kamikaze

• ''Head full of powerful incantations''

  • head full = brainwashed, cannot be rationalised/ not talked out of it
  • poweful incantations = the propaganda telling him it's good to die for your country/ honour
• ''Shoals of fishes flashing silver''

  • sibillance = sense of grace and peacefulness
  • silver = saw the beauty of nature before his supposed death, reason of his return?
  • flashing = powerul verb, he couldn't not look at nature - shows its power of man
• ''Which had been a better way to die''

  • had = switch back to 3rd person, to painful to discuss directly?
  • better = sense of regret
  • die = futility, his fate was inevitable, whether socially or physically
• ''- yes, grandfather's boat - safe''

  • italics (on paper) = switch to 1st person
  • grandfather's = reminds reader that the pilot had a life and personal history too
  • safe = repeated multiple times, he is focusing on safety and life
  • safe = during his childhood, he wanted his family to be safe which contrasts to what his current family wants
• ''as though he no longer existed''

  • ironic quote = he's alive but treated like he died
  • no longer = what the family promised to Japan, putting their national identity and honour first
  • existed = had to dehumanise to make him feel the shame his family now feels