Kamikazi Flashcards
Abstract concept
The power of culture and tradition on the individual and the consequence of rebellion
‘one way journey into history’
Metaphor that they would be remembered and become a part of the fabric of society - be apart of history
‘one way’ - not coming back, suicide mission, brave and heroic
‘half way there’
Amy further than half way and there would be no turning back. Make the decision to turn around. Changes hisind on his own thinking his family would be happy and worried about him
‘remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore’
. Power of memory, he remembers a time when he used to wait on the shore for his father to return from fishing and it was horrible because he dint know if he was coming back, fears his own children may be thinking the same thing
My mother never spoke in his presence again
. Power in indoctrination of culture on an individual. He is shunned by his own family and society because they belive she should’ve completed his duty and died for his country. His wife ignores him forever and is not pleased to have him back and she is dishonored by him
Gradually we too learned to be silent
Children arnt fully indoctrinated so they fall silent slower than adults but they are becoming indoctrinated, they don’t understand he had done something wrong, culture of silence continues
Sometimes, she said, he must’ve wondered which had been a better way to die
Death of plane crash would’ve been an honorable way to die, but because he didn’t die like that, he died a cultural death. He now wonders if dieing via the plane would’ve been a better way to die, society is controlling his thoughts
