Memoirs of a Geisha by Athur Golden

“Hana’s suitcase”, written by Karen Levine, records a painful memory of a Toronto resident, Gorge Brady, to his lost younger sister in the World War II (WWII), Hana Brady. This memory is provoked by an unexpected package from Japan. Which tells him they are exhibiting his sister’s suitcase as well as her drawing photographs in Tokyo Holocaust Center for a purpose of education about the Holocaust to the Japanese children. And they hope to get more information about his sister, Hana Brady’s life. In the continuing communication with the Japanese children, Gorge gives them all the details about Hana’s short life, and what happens to her in the WWII.

Have you ever been separated from your dad for a while? We already know that the dad’s love cannot be compared with another thing in the world. The relationship between a father and his son is one of the most important things in life. In the novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka shows the relationship assists in making a boy recognize the love of his father while he is in the internment camp for a long time. We may see through the third chapter as the father and his boy encourage their self-confidence to overcome their own experiences of being separated from each other. We are able to see how this relationship become strong and how it is linked for the boy’s feelings. Through this essay I would like to prove the importance of the father and his son, and how they illustrated this love in the novel “When the Emperor was Divine”.

Laura Hillenbrand is an America author of magazine articles and books. Hillenbrand was born in May 5, 1967, in Fairfax, Virginia. She has written only two books Seabiscuit a New York Times bestseller, and Unbroken, both non-fictions. She is considering one of the best American writers. Her New York Times Article, “A Sudden Illness” won the 2004 National magazine award, and she has also won twice the Eclipse Award, one of the highest journalist honor. Her most recent book Unbroken tells the inspiring story of Louie Zamperini, the son of Italian immigrants.

How can anyone be prepared, physically or mentally, for the challenges faced as a prisoner of war? In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini faces a rough childhood and rigorous athletic career that in many ways conditioned him for the hurdles he would have to jump later in life. His childhood as a delinquent and training as an Olympic athlete were deciding factors in his will to survive and overcome.

We follow the life of Sayuri, who begins as a peasant in a fishing village, as she becomes a geisha. The real interest of this book is in the first half - her training and schooling. After that, the book devolves into a rather standard romance-novel-type plot concerning Sayuri's love for the Chairman, an important figure in her life.

“The Visitor” by Asako Serizawa tells the story of the horrific actions of World War II and the aftermath that left millions of people wondering where their loved ones were and if they did indeed survive the war. Serizawa described these horrific events through the use of symbols to make the reader think about the bigger meaning behind the text. Symbolism is an important part of any story because it gives the reader more to think about than just the words on the page, and allows for deeper thinking. The short story is about a woman whose son, Yasushi, who is deployed as a Japanese soldier during World War II in Japan, and does not return home at the end of the war. When a Japanese soldier, Murayama, visits the woman 's house he brings with him a piece of paper, a photo album, and the truth, which is exactly what the woman sought for. Serizawa demonstrates the quest for the truth about what happened to Yasushi through her use of three major symbols: The vase, the piece of paper, and the photograph.

A person’s heritage and cultural identity may be lost when moving to a new country where the culture is different and other cultures are not easily accepted. In the short story “Hindus”, Bharati Mukherjee uses setting, characters and the plot to discuss what it is like to lose your cultural identity while being a visible minority in America. Mukherjee uses the plot to describe the events that take place in the main characters life that lead her to realize how different the culture and life is in the America’s. She also uses the characters as a way of demonstrating how moving away from one’s culture and heritage can change a person’s perspective and ways of thinking. Mukerjee also uses setting in her story to identity the physical differences in culture between living in India and America. Alike the setting and characters, the plot helps describe the loss of culture with a sequence of events.

Racial and gender stereotypes are vague assumptions that are generally negative in the novel, Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. They are false beliefs abstracted by judgmental people based on a person’s gender or ethnicity. Each person has their respective thoughts, ambitions and passions despite their gender or race. These stereotypes are ignorant and do not define every single person. Most people realize that stereotypes are inaccurate, however they continue to make presumptions based on ethnicity or gender. The author of Forbidden, challenges racial and gender stereotypes by explaining how they are only crude generalizations which cause disruptions in society because of people’s belief that as long as they exist that they must follow them.

The history of publishing has been plagued with literary hoaxes — from the somewhat harmless Ern Malley hoax to the most recent Belle Gibson scandal. Unfortunately literary hoaxes will continue to happen, unless publishers begin to fact check manuscripts before publication. Publishers claim they are unable to do this due to the financial cost of the procedure and this is a believable claim. If you spoke to an average person they would say that the print industry is dying, thanks to the rise of digital technology, and there has been a downturn in profits.

Beauty and violence; words not typically associated with one another. In the stereotypical society, beauty is perceived with a positive connotation, while violence is viewed negatively. In other words, the terms are opposites, or incompatible. This was an idea that seemed to be understood. However, the book Beauty and the Beast contradicts what we know to be true. Michael Taussig, or the author, argues there is a relationship between the believed to be separate entities of beauty and violence. A simple flower can be used to exhibit the theory. The majority of individuals would prefer fresh flowers to plastic, or artificial, flowers. Why is this? Taussig believes this is for the reason that we like the inevitable decay and death, which creates beauty (Junge 10/27). He further claims this relationship is prevalent in Colombian society, and introduces topics such as depense, cosmetic surgery, and the Devil as main points.

For this assignment, I chose to watch The Princess Bride, a film based on the book written by William Goldman. The story is of a beautiful maiden named Buttercup. When she hears word of her true love, Westley’s, ship being taken over by the Dread Pirate Roberts in which there were no survivors. Upon Westley’s death, Buttercup reluctantly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck, who seems to have a plan of his own. When Westley returns as the Dread Pirate Roberts, he finds Buttercup in grave danger in the hands of Vizzini, the man we later learn was hired by Humperdinck to kill his bride and frame Florin’s sworn enemy, Guilder. After using his sword fighting skills and strength to outwit Inigo, the Spanish swordsman, and Fizzik, the giant, he then uses his wit to kill Vizzini, Buttercup’s capturer. Once Buttercup is able to identify Pirate Roberts as Westley, they continue on their journey, only to be thwarted by Prince Humperdinck, Count Rugen, and their men. Buttercup is then tricked to believe that they let Westley go free, even though they have him tortured and eventually killed. In need of his skills and strength, Fizzik and Inigo miraculously save Westley in order to seek revenge on Inigo’s father’s killer, Count Rugen. The three of them then break into the castle, Inigo gets his revenge, and save Buttercup, riding off on four white horses.

At the start of the novel, Sayuri’s outlook on life is bleak and devastating—her parents are ill, she is separated from her sister and made a servant by the mother of the geisha house. However, despite her grim past, she breaks through the barriers that prevent her from moving on and becomes a well-liked geisha. Her despairing view begins to transition into hope at the beginning of the novel when she says, “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course” (100). After Hatsumomo frames her for stealing and sabotaging, causing her backlash from mother, she contemplates her life and how it is changing. She begins to obtain optimism, which leads her to become a geisha. Another example of her perseverance is displayed when Sayuri flees from Kyoto due to the impending war. She ends up doing hard labour producing kimonos at the deserted Amami Island and learns that life is never free of obstacles. This signifies her change, as she is older now, she continues to grasp onto hope and look for a brighter future. The Chairman visits her while she is there to bring her back after the war concludes. Additionally, proceeding her working days, Sayuri goes to Tokyo where she spends her time with her old friend Pumpkin, the Chairman, Nobu, and American soldiers. Her powerful will is seen here as she says, “I'm sure most geisha would call it a bad omen that I'd spilled sake; but to me, that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path of silk; and somehow came to rest there on the teeth of that dragon” (420). Subsequently, the bad omen comes true as Pumpkin betrays Sayuri and tries to demolish her

Sayuri was taken from her village and sold by her father in the Geisha district of Kyoto, then slaved by the owner of Okiya. It is when Mameha becomes her mentor that Sayuri sees that even being a Geisha means that she is just another piece of art and property in this society. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Goodling display the how two different societies succeed in the goal of oppressing women by creating a new reality for them, by controlling them sexually and lastly they making the society seem as if it is a norm and that they must strive to

At the age of nine a young girl named Chiyo from a fishing village was sold to a geisha house by her father because they were in great need of money. While Chiyo was in the house, she had to clean and earn her keep at the geisha house. While being at the geisha house, she also was training to become a geisha, but she was not quite sure what a geisha was. As Chiyo was working and training to become a geisha she tried to run away with her sister, but was caught. She got into trouble with the owner of the geisha house, which set her back from becoming a geisha and demoted her to a slave. Her dreams of becoming a geisha were crushed until she met the Chairman. Once Chiyo met the Chairman, she was determined to cross paths with him again, and become

In the novelMemoirs of a Geisha, the protagonist evolves from a naïve young girl from a poorfishing village, braves the harsh realities of life in her quest to become a geisha, to become a confident and sophisticated adult entertainer. Chiyo begins out as a shy dreamy village girl that that is born into poverty and loses her mother at an early age and is left in the care of a poor father. Faced with the dilemma of raising girls all by himself, her father plans to sell them, opening their floodgate to suffering that haunts Chiyo throughout her rise to geisha life. In the city, with her new found name and life, Chiyo fast adapts to the art of entertaining men and soon finds herself looking for a danna