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needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs 302-305. In the novel, it is described that Kanai is an intelligent student. At the age of ten, he says “My father began teaching me English a little at a time” 38. He is a young man with a big curiosity. He likes reading very much and willing to learn new things. However, he is not a man who has a special interest in sexual life. When he is eleven years old, he enters a private school located at Ikizaka in Hongo where German is taught. He goes there because his father wants him to take mining as the specialization. Kanai’s father lodges him in the home of the famous Professor Azuma to ease him going to school since his estate at Mukojima is too far from the school. During the time I lived at Professor Azuma’s, I was never pressured by sexual desires 56. My lesson at school did not seem very difficult. Since I had studied English under my father’s instruction, I had been using a dictionary by a man named Adler. It was in two volumes, one German-English, the other English-German. Whenever I was bored, I would amuse myself by looking up such a word as member and then finding its equivalent zeugungslied or by looking up the word pudenda and finding scham 57. When Kanai is thirteen, he gives up German and enters the Tokyo English Academy. The change is not because he cannot follow the German lessons, but partly because of the revision of the educational system by the Ministry of Education and partly because of his interest in studying philosophy. In this new school, his passion for reading gets its proper place. There is a library in the dormitory. Kanai makes use of this means to fulfill his self-actualization needs. Maslow explains that self-actualization needs involve the desire someone has inside to prove himself and to become more and more what he is, as well as to achieve everything that he is capable 304-305. Kanai needs to feed his hunger of knowledge, therefore he reads books regularly. Permission was granted to the owner of a lending library to trade in the dormitory. I was one of his regular customers. I read Bakin. I read Kyoden. When I found someone had taken out Shunsui and was reading him, I even borrowed that book “secondhand” from him and read it 61. At the age of fourteen, Kanai keeps on showing his intelligence. Still, he does not feel any real sexual desire yet. He finds much more interest in books of knowledge rather than those romance books. He seems to focus on the study and think less about special relationships of men and women. As usual, my daily lessons still didn’t give me any trouble. Whenever I had some free time, I read those books from the lending library. Because I was gradually able to read faster, I finished almost all the works of Bakin and Kyoden. Then I tried reading some other writers, those of the historical romances we call yomihon, but I found them uninteresting. I read some of the so-called ninjobon, novels which describe the love affairs of lower class people, borrowing the books secondhand from my friends. These relationships between men and women flashed through my mind as if in some beautiful dream. But then that dream faded without leaving any deep impression 73. After Kanai passes the final exams in the school when he is fifteen, there is a great amount of students who are eliminated from school because of failing their study. Shonosuke Hanyu, Kanai’s playmate in school, is one of them. In those days Kanai finds two new friends, Koga and Kojima. Koga becomes Kanai’s roommate in the school dormitory due to the students’ shakeup. At first, Kanai has a bad feeling about Koga and they do not blend instantly. When they are in their room, Koga discovers Kanai’s books and essays. He asks “What sort of books are those?” 88. Kanai explains about the books and leads Koga to question the purpose in reading them. Koga thinks that it is useless to read books if there is no particular goal. “What’s your purpose in reading that kind of stuff?” “It’s not for any particular purpose.” “Then it’s all useless, isn’t it?’ “If that’s the case, then my, or anyone’s, entering this school and pursuing an education is useless, don’t you think? You probably didn’t enter only to become a government official or a teacher, did you?” “You mean that when you graduate, you don’t want to become a government official or teacher?” “Well, I may. But I’m not studying just to become one.” “You mean, then, you’re studying in order to learn, that is, you’re studying for the sake of study?” “Well. Yes, I guess that’s right.” “Well, you’re an interesting kid” 89. Kanai clearly loves studying and developing his knowledge. He does not see education as something obligatory for him to do, but in fact, it is something that he really likes and concerns about. The same day, Koga asks Kanai to join him for a walk. Even though Kanai does not like him, he is willing to try going out together with Koga. Later, they see a young girl about twelve or thirteen years old who works as a Japanese street dancer in a public square. “I don’t know what kind of child she is,” Koga said, “but she’s been treated badly, hasn’t she?” “Probably Chinese children are treated more harshly. I once heard that a Chinese baby was placed in a square box, forced to grow square, and then put on display. The Chinese may be capable of that kind of thing.” “How did you come to hear that story?” “It’s in the Gushoshinshi, a Chinese book on biography and anecdotes.” “You certainly read strange things. You’re an interesting kid” 90. Again, Kanai gives the impression that he enjoys gaining knowledge. His needs of self-actualization are fulfilled by developing his knowledge and achieving a good education in his study. Kanai becomes a university student in the department of literature and lives in a boardinghouse at the age of sixteen. He assumes that probably Kojima PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI