Archive for November 2009
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden pgs.288-355
While reading Memoirs of a Geisha, I realized something about what the author was trying to say about life. He wrote, “When I was locked in, I wanted to be out. Now life has changed so much, that finding myself locked out, I wanted to be inside again.” I think what he is trying to say is don’t take anything for granted here. When Sayuri was a maid, she wanted nothing more than then to be free of Gion and to find her sister. But now, during the war she wanted nothing more than to live her own life. She was tired of living her life starving, sewing parachutes for the soldiers in war. She wanted to go back to her life as a geisha which she used to desperately hate. She misses entertaining Nobu and the Chairman and wishes nothing more but to go back to her old life style. By feeling this wish, she feels she shouldn’t have taken her old life style for granted and that she should have enjoyed it. She now appreciates how she lived and doesn’t take anything for granted anymore
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2 comments November 22, 2009
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden pgs.81-287
Memoirs of a Geisha is by far the best book I have read in a while. I love the characters in it because I can relate them all to someone I know. Chiyo, or Sayuri, reminds me somewhat of myself. We both are striving to complete a task in the world to get closer to something we want. Sayuri goes through everything imaginable to become geisha in hope to become closer with the Chairman. I am doing all that I can to get though high school so I can start living my life. Pumpkin is most like my sister in the way that they our both under the pressure to be something that they don’t truly want to be. Pumpkin’s older sister, Hatsumomo, forces her to try and become the best geisha by doing things that Pumpkin doesn’t want to do. Similar to my sister, she is forced to do thing by my mom that she doesn’t like and she wishes she could do something else in her time. By having these characters relate to me and someone I know I feel like I can understand them better and what they are doing. I hope soon I can watch the movie so I can see if it is different or similar to the book.http://web.mit.edu/ealba/www/moag.jpg
2 comments November 15, 2009
