Samalas represent a calling or message to Siddhartha, which tells him he must find joy in himself somewhere other than his home. The

Samanas start the literary device of symbolism throughout the story.

Acts of symbolism start to emerge especially when the river is mentioned. The river starts off by symbolizing peace and patience. An example of this is when Siddhartha had the dream in which Kamala's cages songbird has died. During the dream, he throws the songbird out and in doing this, he feels that he is discarded everything that was good and valuable in himself. Siddhartha now feels he has no meaning in life and he goes to the riverbank. At the riverbank, Siddhartha wants to end his life but at the last moment, he started practicing "Om". The river gave Siddhartha a special feeling of peace inside himself to calm him down and that he had to go on to find true perfectio

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