In The Lonely Lantern, Lin Min-chu, a 17-year-old Taiwanese youth conscripted and trained as a kamikaze pilot, gives voice to this epiphany as he prepares to die for the Japanese emperor:
而這番體悟，竟是透過《孤燈》中，17 歲就被強徵入空軍「豫科練」，被訓練成「神風特攻」飛行員，隨時準備誓死為日本天皇效命的台灣少年林民助來闡述：