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4.1.4 Smart
Although Sayuri was a naughty girl, she is smart. She had a lot of tricks in order to remember the lesson she got in the school. She could quickly learn
the lesson she got from the school. She learned to play Shamisen by practicing in her mind while she was doing her errand. She learned ballads
and songs by writing the words on a piece of paper before going to sleep, and then after she woke up, she read the page before she was stirring from her
futon. We can see from the following quotation: But with all my lesson and chores, and with my high expectations, I
felt completely overwhelmed in my six first months of training. Then after that, I began to discover little trick that made everything
go more smoothly. For example, I found a way of practicing a song in my mind while picturing clearly how my left hand should shift on
the neck and how the plectrum should strike the string. In this way, when I put the real instrument into my lap, I could sometimes play a
song quite well, even though I had tried playing it only once before. Some people thought I
‘d learned it without practicing, but in fact, I‘d practiced it all up and down the alleyways of Gion. Golden,
1997:152 With her current chores in okiya, Sayuri must carefully manage her
time well. She did not want her study neglected nor she don ‘t want scolded
by Mother due abandoning her chores in okiya. So Sayuri found some tricks so she can both study her arts while doing the chores.
4.1.5 Strong
Despite her young age, Sayuri has a strong heart. From the beginning of the story, one after another bad luck came to her but she can stay still and not
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her become a strong geisha. We can see from the following quotation: …The stale air had washed away. The past was gone. My mother
and father were dead and I could do nothing in change it. But I suppose that for the past year I
‘d been dead in a way too. And my sister
… yes, she was gone, but I felt as though I‘d turned around to look in a different direction, so that I no longer faced backward
toward the past, but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this:
―What would that future be? Golden, 1997:107
―… But what will you do with yourself now, Chiyo? You don‘t look to me like a girl who wants to live her life as a maid.
‖ ―Oh, ma‘am… I‘d give anything to undo my mistakes.‖ I said, ―It‘s
been more than two years now, I ‘ve waited so patiently in the hopes
that some opportunity might come along. ‖ Golden, 1997:125
―Mameha-san, I promise you, such a thing will never happen with me.
‖ I said. ―Thanks to you, I feel like a ship encountering its first taste of the ocean. I would never forgive myself for disappointing
you. ‖ Golden, 1997:140
From the quotations above we can seen that Sayuri kept moving forward and facing reality in front of her. The meeting with Chairmand and
Mameha opened a new path for Sayuri life. Although there were still many obstacles on her path, she decided to not giving-up easily.
4.1.6 Shy
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