If I hit the target someday, shooting arrows through a bamboo pole, that’s about all the good luck I can hope for” (908). To me, all ‘good luck’ means is squeezing a little money from the change when I am sent to by persimmon juice. I was born to wear a plain kimono with workman’s sleeves and a short band around my waist. For instance, Kichizo said about himself “Oiling umbrellas suits me fine. He was a low and hot-tempered boy with the fragile figure, which made other people laugh at him. The story is concentrated on his life and thoughts, but the author depicted him as an usual boy. Kichizo is a sixteen years-old orphan, who repaired umbrellas in an umbrella shop. She sewed clothes and liked people, who were not afraid “to speak their minds” (910). She had no unusual attributes or outstanding traits, as she was an ordinary stylish woman in early twenties, kind and friendly, and in an old kimono.
According to the author, “With her quick wit, she was soon friendly with everyone” (910). Okyo is a seamstress, who lives near the umbrella factory and sews clothes for the members of the shop.
Both of them have no relatives, who could support them. The main characters are Kichizo and Okyo, who live in a small Chinese city. In order to prove this suggestion, it is worth analyzing the characters. The story is one of realism because it demonstrates the lives of the representatives of the middle class. The story is written in the realistic style that will be proven further. The readers do not think about the author’s opinion, as the story is focused completely on the characters. The short story “Separate Ways” by Higuchi Ichiyo represents the destinies of two different people, whose lives may hardly be called happy. In the UK "Always On My Mind" was the hit song and "Separate Ways" was the B-side.Nowadays, when people are involved in technology and science development, some of them remain abounded from these processes. It was listed as a double-sided hit reaching #16 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in November 1972. It reached gold status in the US for sales of over half a million copies. They were released together as a single on October 31, 1972. Presley recorded "Separate Ways", written by Red West and Richard Mainegra, on March 27, 1972, and the country song " Always On My Mind" on March 29.
SEPARATE WAYS SERIES
RCA reissued the album on CD again in 2006 as part of a reissue series featuring most of Presley's RCA Camden albums. In 1991, Separate Ways was reissued for the first time on compact disc in Canada on the RCA Camden label. After Presley's death in 1977, RCA sought to reclaim the rights to their Pickwick/Camden recordings. The album contents and cover art are the same as the original RCA issue. Separate Ways appeared on the Pickwick label utilizing the original RCA Camden catalog number, CAS-2611. In the mid 1970s, The Pickwick Records reissue label leased the rights to reissue several albums from the RCA catalog.
SEPARATE WAYS PLUS
Next to "Separate Ways" and "Always On My Mind" the remainder of the album - which was not promoted as a compilation on the front cover - consisted of previously released recordings from 1960s Presley film soundtracks, plus one song, " Old Shep", originally issued on Elvis' second album, released in 1956.
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