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Memoirs Of A Geisha Book Review
883 wordsBeneath the concrete layers and behind the flashing neon signs lies a memory of another Japan, one defined by scented fans, mannered dances and the haunting echo of a samisen stringed instrument. Arthur Golden, author of the meaningful book, Memoirs of a Geisha, offers readers an entry to this old time. Golden's novel actually takes place in a country rapidly industrializing for the coming World War II. Like a geisha who has mastered the art of illusion, Golden creates a isolated floating world ...
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Mary Shelley Shelley Frankenstein
1,983 words... o four literary and historical works that Mary Shelley read and studied between the time that she eloped with Percy in 1814 and the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, that were of primary importance in the creation of this novel. They are as follows; Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Lives by Plutarch, and The Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Women by William Godwin. The first three assist in the monster's education and understanding of human socie...
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2,707 wordsA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is written by Ismael Beah. The author of the book was born in Sierra Leone in 1980, and then, eighteen years later, he moved to the United States. His biography doesn't remind the lives of ordinary writers, as, unlike them, his life wasn't very sweet. The book tells the story of his childhood, when in 1991 a civil war took place in Sierra Leone, the place, where he was born and spent his childhood. A Long Way Gon...
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Toni Morrison Pecola Breedlove
907 wordsMemoirs of a Geisha by Author Golden and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison are two thought provoking books with a unique style of writing. Memoirs of a Geisha has a beautiful poetic grammar which captures readers imagination and brings the story to life. Morrison on the other hand uses combined voices to give varied perspectives with out resorting to authorial intrusion or preaching. Memoirs Of A Geisha and the bluest eye both contain graphic realism combined with a dramatic flair, which is the ke...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelleys Frankenstein
3,894 wordsMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was the daughter of the radical feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the political philosopher, William Godwin, and the wife of the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Through these familial affiliations, she was also acquainted with Lord Byron, Samuel T. Coleridge, and other literary figures such as Charles and Mary Lamb. Surrounded by such influential literary and political figures of the Romantic Age, it is not surprising that as an adolescent, at the age of 19, sh...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior
2,780 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston creates a self as a Chinese-American woman through models of selfhood in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. She does this by writing stories and rewriting myths that identify parts of her self. The story of the? No Name Woman? shows Kingston? s fears of being forgotten and her feminist views. The rewritten vision of Fa MuLan is a story that Kingston identifies with as a Chinese-American woman. She tells about her mother to show how they are the same in so...
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589 wordsWho the Heck is Neil Simon? Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, The Sunshine Boys are just a few of Neil Simon s most successful plays which have kept millions of people amused for many years now. His success in the playwriting business has earned him respect from his readers and recognition not only as the most successful playwright, but one of the best. Brighton Beach Memoirs was written as a reflection upon his own childhood life. Simon was born in the Bronx, an area l...
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