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    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA By Arthur Golden. 434 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. September 27‚ 1997 In Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden‚ the reader follows the life of Choiy‚ a young girl who is taken from her family at the age of 9 to the Geisha district in Gion‚ Japan. Because of her blue eyes Choiy is immediately sold to an okiya (Geisha house) to learn the ways of the Geishas. At first‚ Choiy is tempted to runaway and find her

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    CABASAN CL105 Memoirs of a Geisha Book and Film Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Tennessee‚ in the Southern US. He graduated from Harvard in 1978 with an art history degree‚ with a specialization in Japanese art. He obtained further education in Japanese History and Mandarin Chinese. Eventually‚ he landed a job in a magazine publishing company in Tokyo and met a young man who was born between a prominent businessman and a geisha. This inspired him to write a novel about a geisha. Golden took

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    The 2005 film ‘Memoirs of Geisha’‚ directed by Rob Marshall‚ is a film which follows the life of a young Japanese girl who is taken from the life of which she was accustomed to and is forced to live in and become part of a world which is exceedingly isolating‚ restricting and where conformity is highly valued. Sayuri‚ the protagonist in the film‚ finds that the only way for her to overcome her feelings of disconnectedness and isolation is to actually intentionally isolate and disconnect herself

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    Published in 1997‚ Memoirs of a Geisha portrays a geisha’s rise from a Japanese fishing village to life in high society. In this fictional history novel‚ Arthur Golden strives to provide his readers with the basic knowledge of the Japanese history in the years between 1930 and 1940. Westerners usually think of geishas simply as prostitutes‚ but the book attempts to right the misconception that geishas are simply prostitutes by showing the reader various trainings the geisha undertakes to perfect

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    Memoirs of a Geisha is full of admiration‚ primarily to Western readers who are unaccustomed with the spiritual Japanese geisha. As a geisha‚ you is positioned to entertain men with dance‚ conversation‚ and song. Many people believe geishas are considered as prostitutes‚ but really they represent the past of Japan more than they represent prostitutes. Marc Canter mentioned how these geishas go through a variety of changes in their roles in the past and are now absolutely different from where they

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    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA MAIN CONTEXT The Memoirs of a Geisha is a story of girl named Chiyo. Together with her sister Satsu‚ they were sold to slavery to pay the debts of their parents. They were sent to an Okiya (geisha house) but Satsu was not accepted so they parted ways. She was a slave of a geisha in the Okiya. But after six years she was sent to a geisha school and changed the name from Chiyo to Sayuri‚ to be trained with the support of a successful geisha Mameha‚ and making a lot of enemies

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    I. Title: Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) II. Author: Arthur Golden (1957- ) III. Setting: a. Where: Gion‚ Kyoto‚ Japan b. When: Early 1900’s (1930’s‚ World War II) IV. Character and Characterization: c. Principal Characters i. Sayuri Nitta (Chiyo Sakamoto) Sayuri is the main character of the book. As a child‚ she always thought well of others. She has determination and does not give up easily. Her gray eyes are what make her stand out the most.

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    Historical Novel: Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha is a compelling novel that is centered on a young girl’s journey of maturing and becoming a prominent and successful geisha. The book was written by Author Golden and published in 1997. The story was based on the life of geisha in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s. Geisha literally translates into “art person.” Geisha are Japanese women that are trained to entertain men with singing‚ dancing‚ and conversation. The book itself was very accurate

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    A Cinderella Story Have you ever done the unthinkable to get the attention of your true love? The film Memoirs of Geisha dramatizes how one can endure so much just to get what they want. The writer wants us to get up to a closer look into the life of becoming a Geisha so the film is narrated in first person point of view by Nitta Sayuri which is the main character. Sakamoto Chiyo (Sayuri) and her sister Satsu was separated from her family because their mother became extremely sick. When Chiyo’s

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    The future of geisha: Memoirs of a geisha "We do not become geisha to pursue our own destinies‚ we become geisha cause we have no other choice" – Memoirs of a Geisha. Do Japanese women still become geisha? Yes‚ because as long as there remains demands for geisha these Japanese customs will always exists. Japanese girls are sold to managers when they are very young‚ these girls are usually orphans. Until the day that they are declared geisha their managers consider them an "Investment"-Feeding

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