Bitter And Sweet Quotes

History is something that we all have knowledge of. It may be family history, or even your own but we all know of an experience that happened in the past. These experiences make us who we are, and they determine how we think. Not only that but they determine our emotions towards certain topics. Through characters in the book, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " written by Jamie Ford, we learn that American identity is based on ones history and if we want America to become a stronger more united place everyone’s history must be accepted.

The novel begins as Henry reminisces his time with her, which suggests that she is the focus point of the story. “The hotel had always been a perfect landmark. A perfect meeting place―where he’d once met the love of his life” (1). Henry’s relationship with Keiko is the relationship the book revolves around for many reasons. Due to her Japanese descent, Henry found himself falling in love with a girl that his father would never approve of. In turn, Keiko fueled Henry’s rebellion against his father, and taught him valuable lessons about how to love and what it means to be a family. When Keiko is sent away to Camp Harmony, Henry is driven mad by their separation. He searches for ways to get in contact with Keiko, and eventually finds a job that will allow him to find her while he is serving food at the camp’s cafeteria. His desperation to find her shows the impact Keiko has on his life. He tells her he will wait for her, however long it takes, so they can be together. Since Henry is only 12 years old, it is clear that his love for her is deep and true. Keiko influenced Henry’s character the most because she was the turning point of his

First, let us examine the delicate Japanese parasol found in the basement of the Panama Hotel. Clearly, time has been anything but Henry Lee’s ally. The last time that Henry and Keiko had interacted was forty-plus years ago during World War 2. Since then, Henry has been completely engrossed with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. The novel asserts, “After all, he’d spent a lifetime between these bookended visits. A

Every person has a favorite celebrity. These days with social media it gives people everywhere a great deal of access into the personal lives of their favorite celebrities. With all of this connection between the favorite celebrity of a person and the person themselves, it is easy to see how the values of the celebrity can reflect on the admirer. This is an example of the relationships that appear in the novel Hotel on the Corner of the Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, in which Henry takes his experiences from past relationships in the 1940s, to shape his relationships in the 1980s. The best examples of this are in the relationships of Henry and Keiko, and Henry and his father, and how both of those relationships effect the relationship between

The writer compares the sameness of the flapper’s dress to the sameness of chain hotels. “...and incidentally hotel bedrooms are becoming so alike you can remember

Character Sketches In Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the supporting character in the novel, Keiko Okabe, divulges to the reader that she is truly a profound American and steadfast friend to anyone. Throughout the novel Keiko is struggling with the fact that some civilians do not believe she is a true American because her ethnical background proves her family is from Japan. Even though people made fun of her for being Japanese, she strives to be accepted as an American. This is indicated in the scene at the Black Elks Club where Japanese adults were arrested, and Keiko tells Henry, “‘That’s fine be who you are,’ she said, turning away, a look of disappointment in her eyes.

Leaving her place of employment, Lehane took in a deep breath, driving towards Pike Market. Lehane thought about the day, about everything going on around her. Nathaniel coming back, Chris coming back, her father died, and, her brother doing something that he shouldn't have done. It was all piling up inside needing to break out or something along those lines. Parking her car, she got out and walked the mile to Pike's Market. Pike's Market wasn't just known for its Wharf; It was one of the most historical parts of Downtown Seattle, Washington. That and the Space Needle, but Pike's that was the place all the tourists went. Not just to watch the cargo ships come in, or the fisherman bringing in their hauls, but it was a family environment. It was a place

Even at the Panama Hotel change is inevitable. The only thing it needs is a spark to ignite a reaction that can cause confusion, misery, enlightenment or even happiness in a person’s life. Life is all about change. Henry the main character, in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, experiences many changes in his life. His ethnic modifications are what makes him the American, he is proud to be. Henry was formed by the people around him. The various relationships that shape Henry are through unique involvements between his father, his son, and Keiko; these involvements help to transform him into a better-rounded American.

"The desk man at the hotel gave him a press packet when he registered, checking his name off a list, but J. hasn't bothered to look at it so he doesn't know what time dinner is," (p. 693).

The Rooms, Executive, referred to as Olive Oil, was perfectly put together. She was the mistress of Mr. Suave, and the first in a long line of Kiva servers, commonly referred to as Brown Nose servers that Japes became involved with. These Brown Nose servers did anything they could to keep their bosses happy, but rarely had a clue on doing their own job. Server's like Olive Oil were scattered within the hotel world, and although these ingratiating tactics were obvious, the irony was if they applied these efforts towards what needed to be done they could have been successful. Inevitably, this selective behavior came back to bite them.

She talks about the American people’s misconceptions about what a ‘geisha’ is and their derogatory view of the concept. She explains the type of surprised and unsettled look that she is given by the American women when they realize that she was once a geisha. Although she expresses her sympathetic understanding of these misconceptions, she makes this comparison to show her thoughts on the matter: “A moment later she is rescued by her escort, a wealthy man a good thirty or forty years older than she is. Well, I often find myself wondering why she can’t sense how much we really have in common. She is a well kept woman, you see, and in my day, so was I.” (Golden 291) Golden included this detail as a direct connection to his life and the questions that he would often get asked when writing this novel. (“Arthur Golden – An Interview with Author”). It is difficult for Westerners to understand what being a geisha means since there is nothing in Western culture that corresponds to it. He includes this detail as an anecdote and also to ensure that his readers are aware of this cultural

Sigel met the proprietor of the hotel at a Whig Political Party meeting he attended. The proprietor, knowing about Sigel’s esteem in the German-American community encouraged him to bring as many customers as possible to stay in his hotel in order to show the wealthy New York City residents how popular his hotel was. These cheap hotel room guests stayed in the interior of the hotel next to the laundry room and in other less desirable hotel service areas and were discouraged from using the public areas of the hotel unless they were well

In the iconic Copacabana scene, Martin Scorsese creates a scene that is like no other in the movie. During this scene, the introduction of Karen plays an integral role in the film structure and helps to compare and contrast two people from different cultures and backgrounds. From the beginning of the scene, Henry lives in a world where he can skip the line at clubs, tip everyone twenty dollars, and leave his car to some guard on the street. Karen, on the other hand, is somewhat taken aback by these actions, as she has never witnessed this before, and is intrigued by the power that he displays. This display of Henry’s power and social status also goes along with Orsitto’s description about how Scorsese created a stylized-realistic film, as these

To give a proper analysis of "The Grand Budapest Hotel", it is necessary to understand the several layers through which the story is told. The film begins with a monologue from the narrator (presumably in the present day) describing to the audience what it is to be a storyteller. He then proceeds to give an exact account of how he, a writer, came to meet and have dinner with an old gentleman named Zero Mustafa when he was staying at Grand Budapest during its "decline into shabbiness." The body of the film is then presented from Zero 's perspective during the course of an elaborate dinner, as he tells our narrator how he came to own the Grand Budapest. The storyteller seems to be an omnipotent paradigm of the film, and Wes Anderson seems to be encouraging people to tell the story of others. As stated by the narrator at the end of his opening monologue: "Of he who tells the story of many, many stories will be told." "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is the story of relationships; the relationship between Gustave and Zero, and the relationship between the Grand Budapest itself and the characters that inhabit it the relationship between storyteller and audience.

The title represents the major theme present in this novel: time travel. Henry is diagnosed with a disorder known as Chrono-Displacement, which causes him to time travel. In the novel, Henry is married to Clare, and the story is based on their love over the course of time. When Henry time travels, he cannot control when he travels or where he travels to. A side effect of time travel is that he cannot bring anything with him when he travels, so he ends up naked in strange locations. This is one of the conflicts in the novel because Henry is constantly time traveling, and, as a result, Clare is often left waiting for Henry to come home.