Kamikaze
- Created by: pinkbeer
- Created on: 05-08-19 12:26
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- Kamikaze
- Simile "He must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting"
- Looking down shows his power and bravery, leaving behind his family and home
- People have to look up to him- respect him, shows he is heroic
- Bunting is used as a celebratory so the community is joyful and happy which contrasts with where he is going
- He is leaving a joyful place behind and entering his death
- Ironic that the natural world seems to celebrate his death as war is unnatural
- His heroism/ sacrifice are emphasised and it tempts him to stay
- He's protecting/ having a 'father like role' to the people left behind
- It's ironic because his own children reject him later
- He is leaving behind a natural/ simple life for war
- It is possible at this point that the people he has left behind are insignificant and he is superior as he is saving the country
- The bunting catches the eye as it is the last joyful reminder of home
- The bunting also looks like it is waving goodbye
- The bunting represents the pilots because they are in their own plane but are working as a team
- The way bunting is placed out is like how they are treating the pilots
- Listing "The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous"
- 'Loose'- expendable change- connects to the lack of the value to the pilots
- 'Tuna' is dominant, like the enemy
- 'Dark Prince'- unknown power
- 'Tuna' unnoticed- like the pilot. This changes when he enlists
- 'Tuna' represents the government and the 'whitebait' represents the pilots
- 'Muscular'- the bombs make the planes a threat to be feared
- Foreshadowing "dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun"
- relaxed, floating fish enjoys the warmth of the sun. Contrast to the conflict
- 'Dark'- mystery and death
- The fish are like predators- symbolises the enemy planes in formation
- The fish (dark) represent the enemy and the silver (Japanese)
- Silver- metal on the plane catches the sun, just as the scales catch the sun. Sun represents hope/ light/ comfort/ heaven
- Conflict interferes with the natural world
- Dark/ silver- like the planes/ people- only 'shine' when they are deceased
- Simile "He must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting"
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