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1. Autonomous and Independent
When Firdaus was a child, there was no freedom to make a choice to live better because she lived with her parents and her uncle with their own rules. She
had to obey some rules and commands from them and she had no right to refuse it. But things have changed; she becomes a successful prostitute in which she can
have all the things to fulfill her needs. Working as a prostitute changes her previous life. She becomes an autonomous woman who can manage her own life
without being afraid of somebody who only takes benefits from her. She feels the great new atmosphere in which she never expects before.
Now I could decide on the food I wanted to eat, the house I preferred to live in, refuse the man for whom I felt an inversion no matter what the reason,
and choose the man I wished to have, even if it was only because he was clean and well manicured 68.
Firdaus has become a different person after she experienced some kinds of
child abuse in her childhood. Her life has changed; she has her own freedom in which it is impossible to achieve if she is still abused. She has everything in her
hand and she really enjoys her achievement to feel the freedom that she desires from a long time ago. Her life becomes different when she can employ someone
to manage her room and her activities as a prostitute. She enjoys her life in her twenty years old where she can be an independent woman who never depends on
men and people surround her. Her bank account always keeps mounting as the time goes by 69. This kind of situation symbolizes how wealthy she is now. She
is no longer a person who is burden by people surround her. She becomes an independently struggle woman who fights alone against her past.
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53 A quarter of century had passed, for I was twenty-five years old when I first
started to have a clean apartment of my own, overlooking the main street, engage a cook who prepared the food I ordered, and employ someone to
arrange for my appointments at the hours which suited me, in accordance with terms which I considered acceptable. My bank account kept mounting
all the time. I now had free time in which I could relax, go for walks, or to the cinema, or to the theatre, time to read the newspapers and to discuss
politics with the few close friends I selected from the many who hovered me seeking to strike up a friendship 69.
It is very contrast to her childhood when sometimes she has to go to the bed with an empty stomach because her father eats the supper alone without remaining
food for his children. At that time, she even cannot cry because she is totally hungry. But things have changed; now she can buy what she wants to buy and eat
what she wants to eat without waiting for her mother giving her meals. She becomes a free soul who directs herself without anyone disturbs her life. All that
she wants is for a simple thing called freedom which she always dreams about. I realized this was the first time in my life I was eating without being
watched by two eyes gazing into my plate to see how much food I took. Ever since I was born those who eyes had always been there, wide open,
staring, unflinching, following every morsel of food on my plate 66.
From the quotation its analysis above, it is clearly described how she has changed her life after working as a successful independent prostitute who owns
her body by herself and owns her material without letting anybody to take the advantages through her job. She realizes that all that she wants from a child has
been achieved and she proves to herself that she can do that and deserves to live freely without two eyes which always observe her every time she walks. This
change belongs to changes in role by Hurlock. When Firdaus was a child, she was an economically dependent child who always depended on her parents. She had
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54 no right to choose her favorite things in her life, but when she became a successful
prostitute she could earn her money by herself and had an absolute right to choose what she wanted in her life. Her autonomous and independent characters can be
seen through her mannerism.
2. Tough
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