For anyone who has read Memoirs of a Geisha?

Question

What are the most important events in the story?PLZ help! For school report!

Answer 1

It's been a while since I read it...but I would say that the private culture and training to become a Geisha stuck with me the most. From a lost poor girl, separated from her sister after her mothers death, to becoming a servant to a cruel geisha, then apprentice to a kind geisha, and falling in love. The biggest thing I came away with were 1) the lack of choices for a geisha 2) the overwhelming tasks to become a geisha and 3) the sadness of what a geisha loses in order to maintain her status. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Read the first paragraphs and last paragraphs of each chapter and read the synopsis for an overview.

Points to note:

Acceptable social boundaries in the profession of Geisha are above the common man.
However, when the Geisha stops work, they can be looked down upon as they are often associated with moral vice, especially sex with their customers, who tend to be future prospective husbands, which in turn ruins reputation and the woman's chastity.


Acceptable etiquette as a Geisha above the paying customers and common folk.
Geisha has a higher moral code than would customers and commoners. This professionalism is to protect integrity with the darker undertone, that for all the Geisha portrayed, women (including the Geisha) eventually sought refuge in man's ability of wealth in the ancient times before women's suffrage.


The paradox of love as a profession and love as experienced by the individual.
The individual portrayed had to sell images and notions of love through the cover of polite society by way of song and dance, and in the grey areas of the profession, sex, all the while did she habor love of another, one of her sponsors to the school of Geisha.

Answer 3

I would have to say the most important events were the time lapses themselves and the main foundation that was laid during each important change, taking her from scared child to a young woman with mission. The transitions that time imposed that we all work within in each of our lives.

It is after all a memoir.

I'd say the most important shifts or changes for the main character would have been imposed by the times themselves changing as they were all around everyone in the story.

Young, poor, girl. Geisha is the only way to survive. Imposed by the times, history, while in the process of becomming....

Young woman who makes up her mind to succeed and revolves her life and intention around a man and holds all her hopes and dreams on his noticing her, loving her, chosing her above all others, the least likely to be noticed...

An older woman, seasoned and hardened by the times again, war, the way of the geisha becoming outlawed and dismantled as a custom and way of life. Overcoming that too, as a stumbling block. and the chance and oppurtunity that brought them back together time and time again.

and finally, the culmination of all her hopes and dreams through circumstance and sheer will, brought about and shaped by desire. The desire born in a child's eyes. Through hardship and struggle the story ends happily.

And the times dictated and led it all along. as it is in all of our lives. All different, all dictated by our times... our history in the making.

Answer 4

the fall of a culture and a woman growing up to achieve different goals as they change as she does

Answer 5

The death of her mother.