Hallo, könnte jem. einmal folgendes durchlesen u. falsche Kommasetzungen, Ausdrücke, Fehler usw. verbessern?
Danke!!!
Set in the Japan before World War II, we witness in “Memoirs of a Geisha” how, despite many difficulties and problems, a young girl becomes a well-known, renowned geisha.
Chiyo and her elder sister Satsu, both a poor fisherman’s daughters, are taken from her home (a small fishing-village called Yoroido) and sold into slavery in Kyoto. While Satsu is forced to prostitute herself, Chiyo, with nothing more than a pair of unusual, startling blue-grey eyes is brought to the Nitta okyia (a geisha-house) where she comes into contact with Hatsumomo, the okyia’s only geisha, who recognizes straight away the girl’s potential and does everything to humiliate the “new arrival” and to complicate her life. It’s obvious that the popular and pretty Hatsumomo, who considers her as a rival, envies Chiyo’s beauty and impedes the geisha training of the latter with her jealousy and intrigues.
Caught trying to run away, Chiyo loses her trainee status and is from now on nothing but a maid servant and it seems as if she would never become a geisha.
However, her whole life changes one day when she meets a wealthy and benevolent corporation chairman who shows her kindness by giving her a coin and his handkerchief. With this gesture, the man not only encourages Chiyo, but even regives her hope. As from now, she has an aspiration, a dream: being a geisha in order to retrieve the chairman and to attract his attention.
Soon after this encounter, she is taken under the wing of Mameha, a bitter rival of Hatsumomo and shortly receives her geisha name, Sayuri.
After that, despite Hatsumomo’s various attempts to run down Sayuri, Mameha skillfully arrange her protégée’s mizuage (the sale of her virginity for a record price) and makes of her a well-known and successful geisha. Nevertheless, she is not satisfied, because the chance that she ever will be together with the man she is in love with (the chairman) is rather small because he doesn’t pay any attention to her. Though, it seems as if the chairman’s friend, Nobu loves her, but Sayuri is incapable to return these feelings.
Nevertheless, as a consequence of the outbreak of World War II, she asks Nobu, who procures her a shelter, for help. Although she’s feeling herself more and more in the latter’s debt, she comes to the conclusion that she loves the chairman and can’t be happy without him. Notwithstanding, after the war, Nobu becomes her danna and Sayuri has to hurt his feelings so that in the end, her long blighted happiness is accomplished and she’s allowed to be together with the Chairman who is her new danna.
Finally, she migrates to New York where she opens a teahouse with the chairman’s help.
I really like “Memoirs of a Geisha” because, though the many details and descriptions, it is easy to follow the plot, that is very captivating and interesting. Told in the first-person view, we gain an insight in the author’s thoughts and feelings and it seems as if Sayuri was sitting in front of us and telling us her story.
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