is the book meemoirs of a geisha a true story?
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The book memoirs of a geisha is not true. it is based on a geisha's life and the author talked to real geishas to get the info, but no it is not true. it could have easily happened but the author did not write it as a true story. if you own the book, you can look in the back, it tells you all the info there. wasnt it a great book???
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My sister works as an air stewardess in a particular airline so i get to hear lots of real-life encounters from her. The most famous urban legend in her company happened in Japan.\n\nApparently, a flight crew of 8 flew to Japan.(I've forgotten which state exactly but i think it starts with F")They were just suppose to stay in Japan for 1 night before flying back the next day.\n\nAll 8 crews were allocated a hotel room each. So on that particular night, 8 of them were playing poker inside 1 of the hotel room. Now, all rooms in this particular hotel have a human size long mirror plastered on the wall.\n\nSo the 8 were happily playing together when ALL of them watch a little boy walked out FROM the mirror, bouncing a rubber ball along the way. The boy's face was a blur as he was reportedly wearing a cap.\n\nStunned beyond words, all 8 of them pretended they have seen nothing and started leaving the room 2 by 2. They bunk in together for the rest of the night.\n\nThinking everything were behind them, all 8 woke up the next morning, preparing to resume their work. \n\nBUT each of them woke up and realised with horror that their faces were imprinted with deep bloody-looking scratches that did not hurt.\n\nWord has it that the little "boy"'s mother were not happy that none of the 8 accompanied the "boy" to play..so she did a little of her revenge...
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From Library Journal\n"I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha....I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan." How nine-year-old Chiyo, sold with her sister into slavery by their father after their mother's death, becomes Sayuri, the beautiful geisha accomplished in the art of entertaining men, is the focus of this fascinating first novel. Narrating her life story from her elegant suite in the Waldorf Astoria, Sayuri tells of her traumatic arrival at the Nitta okiya (a geisha house), where she endures harsh treatment from Granny and Mother, the greedy owners, and from Hatsumomo, the sadistically cruel head geisha. But Sayuri's chance meeting with the Chairman, who shows her kindness, makes her determined to become a geisha. Under the tutelage of the renowned Mameha, she becomes a leading geisha of the 1930s and 1940s. After the book's compelling first half, the second half is a bit flat and overlong. Still, Golden, with degrees in Japanese art and history, has brilliantly revealed the culture and traditions of an exotic world, closed to most Westerners. Highly recommended.\n-?Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"\n\nAccording to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and history from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tokyo who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geisha. This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent years charming the very rich and famous.\nThe result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumor spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider." \n\nGolden's web is finely woven, but his book has a serious flaw: the geisha's true romance rings hollow--the love of her life is a symbol, not a character. Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share. Still, Golden has won the triple crown of fiction: he has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world, and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors.\nAmazon
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Yes, I have seen it. I think its great. Lot of lessons in the movie.. After watching it i got interested in reading the book...
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Is this the story you're looking for?\n\nhttp://our.homewithgod.com/holyspirittemple/hummingbird.htm
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OMG YES!! Just because it is a spiritual book does not mean that the stories in them are supposed to be taken literally...symbolism people! Good question.
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Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah\n\nSummary:\n\nAdeline Yen Mah is born into an affluent and powerful family in China, but her life is made miserable from the moment she is born. After her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline's family labels her "bad luck," causing her to grow up with the guilt that she alone is responsible for her mother's death. Things at home get even worse when Adeline's father remarries. Restricted to one small area of the house, Adeline and her natural siblings are mistreated while their stepbrother and stepsister receive special treatment. An outstanding student and the winner of many academic awards, Adeline revels in the praise she receives from her Aunt Baba and grandfather, Ye Ye, and lives with the hope that her father might someday be proud of her.
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Black Beauty Did you ever wondered how a horse feels? well then Black Beauty is a story about a horse feelings. the story takes place in England and its about a horse who has a life with a lot of cruelty and hapiness. This book was publishedat 1977one year before the author Anne Sewell died. Black Beauty was a horse who the more years passed the more she was hurt and the more she felt against the humans. The reason of that was because they had hurt her and had sale her all over and over again. Some characters of this story are Duchness, Black Beautys mum. She is a very wise horse who loves a lot Black Beauty. Ginger is a very independent horse who has suffered a cruel and lonely life. Merrylegs is a good friend of Black Beauty. She is a horse that has a big love with humans. And Black Beauty a very wise horse as her mother and her life is full of hardness and hapiness . A very good event I would recommend to everyone is an event when Black Beauty sees her friend Ginger. They are both old but they see each other in a park so they start talking and Ginger dies. Yes this is very sad but its a very good event. I chose this evenmt because you can see in your mind what theyve both suffered in their life and how much they enjoyed. I liked a lot this book and I also enjoyed making this book report. I think that this book has a very special place in everyone and I recommend people to read this book.\n\n**LIL MISS VIXION**
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Anywhere in the world its sad thing normally these girls have other addictions they are feeding or end up with. Unfortunately it is a profession that is deeply rooted in the world and while small groups do try to help these girls it is virtually impossible to stamp out.\n \nand in answer to some of your replies, Geisha's are NOT prostitutes thier profession is based on preserving the traditional arts such as dance, singing and music and entertaining in a non-sexual manner.\n\nThe confusion as to whether Geisha are prostitutes or not seems to have stemmed both from the close proximity Geisha had to courtesans in the Edo era and the fact that they did technically originate from the red light districts. The main culprit though appears to be from post World War II occupation by U.S. service men.\n\nMany U.S. service came home from Japan with wild and raunchy stories of "Gee-sha Girls" whom, for most of the part where not in fact real Geisha, but rather, ordinary Japanese women or prostitutes masquerading or calling themselves "Geisha", largely because it was easiest for the service men to understand. \n\nOf course, the large majority of service men did not know the difference, and despite the survival of the Geisha districts after the enforcement of the prostitution laws in 1957 and the subsequent closure of the red light districts, the misconception has haunted the flower and willow world ever since.
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The book is true. Like any book turned into a movie the director or script writer make changes to the story. Sometimes it's leaving out things not considered important or sometimes they sew up loose ends so they can close the story without people expecting a sequel. \n\nSee the section Historical Errors for other changes made to the movie
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Geisha are from Japan, there are not very many of them now, and they are NOT, and NEVER have been, prostitutes or sluts!!!! They normally became the mistress of someone, (because they had to give up being a geisha if they married,) and he would give her 'housekeeping' money, she would have kids with him, but that was ALL!! NOT the same as being a pro OR a slut!! When I hear of the things so-called actresses do today, and I don't hear too many ignoramuses calling THEM pros or sluts, but that's EXACTLY what they are - and then people call geisha 'sluts' just because the 'entertainment' business is now all about sex!! It makes me SICK!!\n\nMovies are NOT the way to find out anything realistic by the way...! Even if they didn't use Chinese actresses, they would still Hollywood-ise everything and corrupt it to the point of being unrecognisable!!!
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The Myth of Repressed Memory : False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse -\n\nUnchained memories - Lenore Terr - 1994 - \n\nA friend has read Unchained memories and recommended it to me, but haven't got round to it yet, but the other book the myth of repressed memory has got some really good reviews.\n\nWould be best if you looked between them as to which would suit you best.\n\nGood lcuk
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The movie is based on a true story and real events, but keep in mind the movie is a drama and not a defnite non-fiction documentary. Check out these links for info on accuracy:
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Theme Analysis \n\n\nAlice Walker depicts Zora Neale Hurston's work as providing the \nAfrican-American literary community with its prime symbol of "racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings" (190). Appropriately, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, provides an enlightening look at the journey of one of these undiminished human beings, Janie Crawford. Janie's story - based on principles of self-exploration, self-empowerment, and self-liberation - details her loss and subsequent attainment of her innocence, as she constantly learns and grows from her difficult experiences with gender issues \nand racism in Their Eyes Were Watching God. \n\nAfter joyfully discovering an archetype for sensuality and love under the pear tree at age sixteen, Janie quickly comes to understand the reality of marriage when she marries Logan Killicks, then Joe Starks. Both men attempt to coerce Janie into submission to them by treating her like a possession: where Killicks works Janie like a mule, Joe objectifies her like a medal around his neck. In addition, Janie learns that passion and love are tied to violence, as Killicks threatens to kill her, and both Joe and Tea Cake beat her to assert their dominance. Yet Janie continually struggles to keep her inner Self intact and strong, remaining resilient in spite of her husbands' \nphysical, verbal, and mental abuse. Janie's resilience is rewarded when she finally meets and marries Tea Cake, who represents the closest semblance to her youthful idealism regarding love and marriage. \nAnother male figure playing prominently in Janie's life is the white man who raped her grandmother; her lineage determines, therefore, that Janie will look whiter than other black women. This fair complexion eventually attracts the ambitious Joe Starks, yet also contributes to Joe's objectification of Janie. Yet, outward appearances aside, Janie's identity takes shape in response to the white male tyranny that made her own birth possible. \n\nFor example, Janie's husband Jody paints his house "a gloaty, sparkly white," (44) humiliates the citizens of Eatonville in similar ways as the white man would, and forces Janie into the slavish servitude reflected by the identity-confining head rag he makes her wear (51). Yet, Janie fights Joe's tyranny by telling him off just before he dies in Chapter Eight, then reclaims her own identity by burning up "every one of her head rags" (85). Similarly, Janie encounters Mrs. Turner, Hurston's symbol of internalized racism, who doesn't "blame de white folks from hating [African-Americans] 'cause Ah can't stand 'em mahself" (135). Again, however, Janie remains true \nto herself as she continues to form her own identity by refusing to leave Tea Cake and class off as Mrs. Turner suggests. \n\nRather than self-destruct under the constant realities of racism and misogyny she receives throughout her life, Janie Crawford does the opposite at the close of Their Eyes Were Watching God. The novel's final image states what Janie does throughout the story - taking her difficult past in and growing stronger and wiser as a result of it. Author Zora Neale Hurston believed that freedom "was something internal….The man himself must make his own emancipation" (189). Likewise, in her defining moment of identity formation, Janie "pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see" (184). At the end of a novel focusing on self-revelation and self-formation, Janie survives with her soul - made resilient by continual struggle - intact.
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If you're asking if it's telling of history, I don't think so.\n\nAccording to wikipedia, "The poem is about a baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville..."\n\nBut whether it's in narrative form, yes.
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Yes, it features beautiful cinematography, although if you read the book, it's not going to be satisfying because it departed from the book a fair bit. \n\nPersonally, I would've preferred watching japanese actors playing the geishas, because I don't believe ethnically chinese actors can bring across the cultural nuances. Nonetheless I think Michelle Yeoh did a good job as Mameha.
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Shirley Jackson herself had a hard time saying it, in an interview she said "Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives."\n\nThe thing that I took most from the story was the towns desire to carry out the sacrifice out of tradition and superstition, not for any meaningful reason (not that there is one for murder). To me it was symbolized by the black box they chose the family out of. The box itself was an mystery to the townsfolk, they did not know who built it, and as old and beat up as it was they did not want to replace it. \n\nThe line that really says it, "...but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box." is telling in of itself. The box represents the tradition of the Lottery, and it is the tradition of performing the Lottery that no one is brave enough to upset.\n\nFinally we have poor Mrs. Hutchinson, who is all too willing to go through with the lottery until she is the one chosen. Only then does she realize the true horror of the situation. I think this is another important point the author is trying to make, that it's easy, and maybe even more insidious, natural, to accept what your community/society is doing however wrong, because it is the status quo. But only when that population turns it's eye to you does one realize how wrong they were to do so.