Siddhartha
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, is about a young man who is in search of the meaning of life; which is reaching Nirvana. Everywhere he goes he doesn't find what he is looking for so he moves on to the next place. He eventually reaches nirvana. Siddhartha goes through many things. In 3 chapters: Kamala, By the River and The Son Siddhartha starts getting closer to his goal, Nirvana The chapter "Awakening" shows how Siddhartha is developing toward his goal of enlightenment. In several parts of the chapter, he said that he has felt as though something left him; his youth. On page 37, line 13, Siddhartha talked about what he felt when he left the Buddha, "He realized that he was no longer a youth; he was now a man. He realized that something had left him, like the old skin a snake sheds. Something was no longer in him, something that had accompanied him right through his youth and was part of him: this was the desire to have teachers and to listen to their teachings." After he left the Buddha, who was the best teacher he could ask for, he knew that if he couldn't benefit from the Buddha than he couldn't benefit from anybody. The name of the chapter
Driven by curiosity and discontent, Siddhartha walked the long and strenuous road in finding inner peace. He completed this trip unlike many before him, because he hardly ever fatigued of questioning people to find the answers he needed to find. By the end of the book he found what he was looking for, but it hit him much more subtly than he expected. Finding love hit him without him even knowing it, this is how his inner peace hit him as well. This section of the book taught me a lesson. I learned that things you're looking for may not always approach you how you would expect them to. In the chapter "Kamala", Siddhartha has his first encounter with love. At that point he doesn't know what it is, but is curious and feels it is something that is essential to him in his journey. Love is something that isn't a material object that we can hold and feel like a gold bar which is something that us humans lust. We have learned that Siddhartha doesn't like material objects like gold bars or nice clothes that regular people enjoy. Because many humans thrive on love, and it can never be taken away like a shiny pair of shoes can, Siddhartha feels it is
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Approximate Word count = 780
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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