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Mind Map by Samira Choudhury, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Samira Choudhury
almost 7 years ago
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Kamikaze -
Beatrice Garland
- 'Powerful incantations' -
Brainwashed
- Free verse
- Social pressure
- 'Like a huge flag' - Patriotism
for country, reminder
- 'Embarked' - Verb, positive, willing
- 'One-way journey into history' -
Metaphor, not meant to return,
motivation, will be remembered
- Italics - Quotations
- Kamikaze pilots in WW2
- 'Must have' - Modal verb, doesn't
really know, making excuses, unsure
- 'Shoals of fishes flashing silver as their
bellies swivelled towards the sun' -
Sibilance, sound of sea, calm atmosphere
- Enjambment - Out of control
- 7 regular stanzas - Strict routine
- 'Only we children still chattered
and laughed' - Innocent, not
brainwashed, don't understand
- 'Brothers [...] built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles
[...] breakers bringing their father's boat' -
Plosive alliteration, power of past, family
- 'Treated him as though he no
longer existed' - Shouldn't have
returned, shame on family, judged
- 'Yes, grandfather's boat' -
Remembered, told children about him,
still loves him, wants them to know
- 'Mother never spoke again'
'Nor did she meet his eyes
- Shame, ashamed of him
- 'Till gradually we too learnt to keep silent'
- Understand, still love him
- 'No longer the father we loved' - Taught
- 'He must have wondered which
had been the better way to die'
- Dead to family, social death,
no love, in plane or at home
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