Kamikaze

• Key Message:

  Highlighting the effects that conflict can have on a family. Also, hints at the dangers of blind patriotism
• Context:

  Kamikaze pilots were part of Japanese Special Attacks in WWII. They were sent on suicide missions and told that their deaths would bring honour to their families
• "a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history"
• "He must have looked far down at the little fishing boats […] and remembered…"
• "We too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned, that this was no longer the father we loved."