Kamikaze V1

Question 1

What person is kamikaze in

Answer 1

Third person

Question 2

Meaning of kamikaze what can the meaning infer

Answer 2

Divine wind (non human entity)

Question 3

What does the unstructured story show

Answer 3

That the daughter puts her interpretations in the story reinforcing that the father does not have a say

Question 4

What is stanza 1 like

Answer 4

List like stanza, which liste of the items that a kamikaze pilot needs ‘flask of water,a samurai sword in the cockpit,a shaven head full of powerful incantations’: makes it seems very simple and straightforward but physcologically is not

Question 5

Link between stanza 1 and 2

Answer 5

Contrast between the almost dehumanising image of the pilot’s ‘shaven head full of powerful incantations ‘and ‘she thought’ in the first line if the next stanza

Question 6

‘Journey into history’

Answer 6

Dramatic irony

Question 7

What doesthe pilotks head full of powerful incantations represent

Answer 7

How he is under the spell up patriotism and propoganda and is forced to follow orders (not think)

Question 8

What was the reason that the father came back ( daughters idea)

Answer 8

Daugter goes on and on about how the father came back due to to nature emphasing the pull of nature and the force it carries

Question 9

Simile examples

Answer 9

Little fishing boats strung out like bunting

Arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way then the other

Dark shoals of foshes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun

Question 10

Langauge of colour examples

Answer 10

Green blue translucent sea

Flashing silver

Pearl-grey

Cloud-marked

Black

Silver

Dark

Question 11

What does the langauge of colour in the poem make us the reader feel for the pilot

Answer 11

Langauge of colour makes everything more beautifull making us more sympathetic for the pikot’s decision to return

Question 12

Why is it ironic that the pilot remebered spending time with his family during his time in the plane

Answer 12

Pilot had a memory of childhood and family which draws him back but when he does his family doesn’t acknowledge him

Question 13

What does the 6 lines on each stanza show and what does the lack of rhythm and rhyme represent

Answer 13

6 lines each stanza which shows the strict military rules you have to follow as a kamikaze pilot however the lack of rhythm and rhyme represents how the father doesn’t follow the orders

Question 14

How do people treat the father now that he has come back and give examples

Answer 14

‘My mother never spoke again …… and neighbours too …. treated him like he no longer existed’ and ‘only we children sill chattered and laughed’

Some family and other people treats the father like he doesn’t exist like if he had died due to his actions to not die for his country however the children still remember and acknowledge him.

Question 15

What does the italics represent

Answer 15

First person,direct voice/daughters voice

Question 16

‘And sometimes, she said he must have wondered’ what does does the must have show

Answer 16

Daughter being assumptious to what the father thought then to just tell him

Question 17

‘Which would have been a better way to die’ what does this mean

Answer 17

1) physically dead due to kamikaze

2)metaphorically dead since peiple don’t view him or acknowledge him due to him turning back

Dead either way which shows the restrictions of society at the time and criticism of society at the time, people expected people to be more then what was capable mentally and physically of humans

Question 18

And remembered how he and his brothers

Question 19

‘Live as though he never returned’

Question 20

Flask if water, a samurai sword in the cockpit and a shaven head full of powerful incantations

Question 21

This was no longer the father we loved