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Seperate Ways
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- Okyo is in her early twenties described as being stylish.
- Kichizo was sixteen years old and called dwarf for how small he was.
- He worked at an umbrella shop.
- He looks younger than he is.
- Okyo is a sewer who makes clothes for others but she herself doesn't have nice clothes.
- Kich doesn't think he will be successful but does not mind because he is fine with working at the umbrealla shop.
Kich is not a fan of the shop owners son and often picks fights with him to show put him in his place.
- He does not have any relatives that he knows of and tells Okyo that she is like a sister to him. He explains he would happily die if he heard someone say that to him but in a way he would still want to keep living.
- Kich is described as being a hard worker who had to like the people he worked for otherwise he would have no where to go. Okyo worked very hard even when he was always being taunted by others calling him a dwarf.
- Kich was built with anger because of others who would bully him.
- Kich out of anger bragged that Okyo would let him in her house at anytime of the night and have concern for him.
- Okyo tells Kich that she is now is moving the next day in with a man to marry. Thi upsets Kich and he asks her how she could leave her dream of sewing but she tells him that she has no love for sewing for she has become bored of it. Story ends with him upset and her with her mind set to leave.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): He was a French writer took up literature because he thought it was a good way to describe ones life experiences.
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A Simple Heart
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- Felicite was the servant of Mme Aubain.
- She worked all day after mass.
- She was twenty five with a thin build. Her father died then shortly after her mother which then left Felicite and her sisters who all ended up going seperate ways.
- The farm that took her in made her leave for they thought she was a thief. The son of that farmer and her years later when she was now eighteen bumped into eah other.
- From their her and Theodore were to be married. Complications arose that he may need to go back to the army but admitted that it scared him. This made her more attracted to him for he would then get to stay with her.
- He ended up leaving her and marrying an old woman. This broke her heart.
- She is a very hard worker at the current farm she is working at and the people of the town know her very well. She is admired.
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- A date with a man named Victor ent well and she held on to it in her memories. It wasn't because of how good it went though because he ended up leaving her on a ferry and there she sat crying and praying.
- Felicite loved her nephew. He meant the world to her but sadly he died and this again broke her heart.
- Those she loves either end up leaving or passing away.
- She lived a life of happiness and was very caring for others but her life was sad because she was surrounded by those she cared about leaving her. Both openly and others leaving because they ended up passing away.
Ichiyo, Higuchi. "Seperate Ways." The Norton Anthology World Literature Volume E. Ed. Puchner, Martin, Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 905-913
Flaubert, Gustave. "A Simple Heart." The Norton Anthology World Literature Volume E. Ed. Puchner, Martin, Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 708-735
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