kamikaze - contexts/ themes

• S- daughter of K pilot interpretation on what happened + thinking about her dads train of thought in the decision he had made - she's telling her kids

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• context

  • men told being a K was a last resort - only way to win the war
  • J culture was v patriotic - better to be killed than be a coward
  • their culture was heavily based around honour
  • poem was part of the collection - 'the invention of fireworks' which showed how mankind became a threat not only to nature but to itself as well. in this poem K looking at the nature was enough to make him come back
• purpose

  • human experience - individual mental conflict in human nature + Q y ppl wanted to die for their country
  • challenge historical nature - human's became a threat to themselves due to conflict. + Q the heroism + patriotism in war
  • look at identity- cultural identity + generational consequences of the K decision that let to his alienation + the toxicity of his shunning due to the historical nature to war at that time