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power and conflict:internal conflict-kamikaze - Coggle Diagram
power and conflict:internal conflict-kamikaze
how is internal conflict shown
the pilot’s internal conflict between carrying out his suicidal duty to society and wanting to live
the pilot is struggling to decide what he should do
"And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die." this shows that the pilot died internally rather than externally and also the daughter has a feeling of regret that everyone was too harsh to him
"built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles" represents death and is in contrast to "bringing their father’s boat safe" this represents safety and wanting to live .
the beauty of nature and the world is what the pilot is thinking about and even when describing this is juxtaposed to the violent language "black crabs, feathery prawns,
the loose silver of whitebait " juxtaposed to " dark prince, muscular, dangerous" this shows that even when thinking about his happy childhood memories there is this side that cant stop thinking about the sacrifice he has to hake and that it will be dangerous
explores the idea of choice and conflict in warfare, and examines the emotional traumas that war creates, carried down through the generations.
the pilot's daughter also has internal conflict as she loves her father but society has rejected him because he didn't carry out his suicide mission and everyone expects her to do the same
context
During the Second World War, the term 'kamikaze' was used for Japanese fighter pilots who were sent on
suicide missions. They were expected to crash their warplanes into enemy warships. The word 'kamikaze' literally translates as 'divine wind'.
The poem is set around the events of a kamikaze pilot flying to war and then turning back before it
was too late. Kamikaze pilots were expected to use up all their weapons and then suicide by flying into their targets as a final act of destruction. It was considered a great honour in Japan to die for
your country. The pilot in this poem returns home and is rejected by his family forever after, his own wife refusing to speak to him.
The poem is written both from a narrator and the daughter of the pilot. The narrator explains the
events, almost translating the story, while the speaker gives a first person account of how they excluded her father
The poet questions at the end which death would have been better, to die as a kamikaze pilot
young or to grow old with a family who shut you out.
Beatrice Garland's poem reflects the immense social pressure brought to bear on the pilots to carry out kamikaze missions as part of Japan's war effort during World War Two
think about the consequences of suicide missions for families in the modern world as well as in past conflicts.
is internal conflict or external conflict more damaging
the pilot died an emotional death rather than a physical one and at the end it questions whether the piolent would have been better of dying in the suicide mission
those who died in the suicide mission were regarded as heroes and those who turned back were dishonoured and rejected from society from there families and friends
in this poem the internal conflict that made the pilot turn back caused more damage to the pilots life and to the people around him than an external conflict would have
traditions/expectations and attitudes in society put a lot of pressure on the pilot
is society to blame?