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-He spent a summer at Peking University in Beijing, China and also worked in Tokyo, Japan.
-His trip inspired him to write Memoirs of a Geisha, which took him 6 years to write.

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-In Kyoto,Japan during World War 2.

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By: Arthur Golden

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Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha. Vintage, 2011.

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Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha. Vintage, 2011.

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-A geisha is a japanese hostess who is responsible for entertaining men through conversation, song, and dance.
-The book title refers to Chiyo's personal life experiences when her father sells her to a businessman named Mr. Tanaka and she ends up living with a family of geisha in Kyoto.

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"My name back then was Chiyo. I wouldn't be known by my geisha name, Sayuri, until years later"(11).

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"Back in my tipsy house on the sea cliffs, I'd been Sakamoto Chiyo. Now my name was Nitta Sayuri" (280).

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Key Childhood Experience:  The death of both of Sayuri parents

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Key Childhood Experience:  The death of both of Sayuri parents

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"To learn in a single moment that both my mother and my father had died and left me, and that my sister too was lost to me forever…at once my mind felt like a broken vase that would not stand. I was lost even within the room around me" (103).

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"Instead of being dark brown, like everyone else's, my mother's eyes were a translucent gray, and mine are just the same" (9).

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"I wasn't even born in Kyoto. I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan" (7).

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"That would be a lovely bow, if only you were a farmer visiting Kyoto for the first time," Mameha said. "But since you want to appear cultivated you must do it like this" (124).

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"Beginning my training meant going to a school in another section of Gion to take lessons in things like music, dance, and tea ceremony" (45).

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"The point wasn't to become a geisha, but to be one. To become a geisha…well, that was hardly a purpose in life. But to be a geisha…I could see it now as a stepping-stone to something else" (114).

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Morality: Morals are based on the way a person is raised

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Morality: Morals are based on the way a person is raised

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"Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean" (94).

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"I suppose that by "dignity" I mean a kind of self-confidence, or certainty" (153).

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"Geisha never marry. Or at least those who do no longer continue as geisha" (147).

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"We call this change "turning the collar," because an apprentice wears a red collar while a geisha wears a white one" (290).

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"She had her mother's mouth and father's angular jaw... and her lovely gray eyes were surrounded by thick eyelashes" (9).

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Adulthood Experience: Sayuri is permanently separated from her sister

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Adulthood Experience: Sayuri is permanently separated from her sister

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"I don't think I'd ever been consciously aware of it, but since the very week she'd run away, I'd carried a belief shrouded somewhere in the back of my mind that the courses of our lives would one day bring us together again" (347).

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Style of Speech: Figurative Language (simile) 

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Style of Speech: Figurative Language (simile) 

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"I've heard it said that the week in which a young girl prepares for her debut as an apprentice geisha is like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly" (162).