To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden are two great novels about life and happiness. Both of these novels seem as if they have nothing in common, but if you read between the lines you'll find that there are some similarities despite the number of differences.

The first similarity that I discovered was that both stories are told in first person point of view. The narrators in the novel are both the main characters but older. Memoirs of a Geisha was told from a retired geisha (or the older version of the main character), and To Kill a Mockingbird was told from an older version Scout. Both of them explain their childhood and what it was like growing up in such times.

The second similarity that I found was that both novels, in a way, portray the importance...