Language

Question 1

‘Her father

Answer 1

embarked at sunrise’ –

Japan is
known as the ‘land of the rising sun’-
symbolism of setting.

Question 2

‘full of

Answer 2

powerful incantations’-

imagery links to
spell hints at the influence of patriotic
propaganda that kamikazes were exposed to.

Question 3

‘they treated him/

Answer 3

as though he no longer
existed’-

irony in that he survived but he s still
treated as if he is dead.

Question 4

‘he must have wondered

Answer 4

/which had been the
better way to die’ –

comment on the
destructiveness of patriotism.