Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden pgs.288-355

November 22, 2009 mikellesreadingblog

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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1. readingblog15 | November 30, 2009 at 9:46 pm

That is a good quote and makes me think. It is so true that people want what they don’t have and end up taking what they do have for granted.

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- 2. mikellesreadingblog | December 8, 2009 at 11:33 pm
  
  I agree. It’s sort of sad.
  
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