Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Vintage Books, New York 434 pages Memoirs of a Geisha is a captivating look into the world of geisha that was so popular among Japanese so many years ago. ... Memoirs of a Geisha is Golden's first novel. ... This means that she will train Chiyo to become a successful Geisha, and Mameha is determined to do so before Chiyo reaches the age of twenty. ... Memoirs of a Geisha a excellent novel, but more excellent is the way Arthur Golden is able to portray the emotions of Sayuri as she struggles to become the successful geisha she is destined to b...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this fictional history novel, Golden strives to provide to its readers the basic knowledge of the Japanese history in the years between 1930 and 1940. ... Throughout the novel, Golden describes Sayuri's feelings in a way that makes the reader believe that the book is really written by the successful geisha. Golden seems to possess incredible insight into the woman's soul. ... After witnessing the life of Sayuri, from her young and innocent age until the final chapter of her life, the reader feels a great connection to this heroic figure. ... Arthur Golden has covered every as...

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• Grade Level: High School

The "Jazz Age," which Fitzgerald is known for naming, reeks with empty, bored people who can never love or trust. ... They thrive on pleasure but, by the age of thirty, they are used up, spent, and gray. ... Gloria is one in a long line of Golden Girls in Fitzgerald's novels who are beautiful but pathetic, empty and self adoring. ... And no baby in a high chair is more pampered, petted, and queenly crowned than she in her youth-centered world where the golden baby rules. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the age of nineteen Roy is being born into a new world. ... If Roy had not been blessed with a golden arm he probably would have never boarded a train and left the comfort and security of the country side. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. ... Critics generally regard the Victorian era as the golden age of English autobio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become metap...

• Word Count: 4675
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become me...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate