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Siddhartha and it's Relation to My Life Quinn Egner

=Living Like the Samanas: One Girl, Many Television Shows, 6 Days= In order to understand the Samanas in Siddhartha, we gave up something for six days. The Samanas gave up their previous lives to live a life without things. I chose to give up television, expecting it to be a walk in the park. I really only watch a couple of shows regularly, and I mainly __#|watch TV__ after I get home from school to have a nice little break. Giving up TV surely couldn't be that difficult, or could it?
 * The __#|Assignment__: **

**The Weekend:** The weekend was the start of my challenge. Thinking about it before, I decided it couldn't be that hard, I usually don't watch too much TV on weekends. I realized I do __#|watch TV__ a lot on Saturday, like __#|football games__ and movies. Without being able to watch the game or catch a rerun of my favorite show, I found myself kind of bored. Due to my gnawing boredom, I started my weekend __#|homework__ on Saturday. Sunday I was busy with [homework as usual, and watching TV never really even came to mind. My brain was occupied with piles and piles of outlines. Overall, the lack of television did inspire me to start my homework Saturday, something I hardly ever do. Maybe not watching TV on the weekends is a good thing!

I knew the school week might present some problems for my self-deprivation. Usually when I get home from school, I watch about 30 minutes of TV before starting my __#|homework__. I justify this by telling myself I worked for 7 hours, and I should get a little down time before working for about four more. Turns out I really needed that down time. Trying to focus on school __#|work__ with an exhausted brain, I felt that "the world tasted bitter. Life was Pain." (Hesse 14). Monday was very tough. Starting around Tuesday, however, I found I could focus a little better. I could relate to Siddhartha when he "stood until he no longer felt pain or thirst" (14) because Tuesday I was feeling better about my self-deprivation. I can do this!
 * Starting the School Week, still no TV: **

By Wednesday, I was confident that I could finish, but I was so excited to finally get to watch TV on Thursday! Finally Thursday came. I related with Siddhartha as he "looked up and around him, a smile crept over his face". I snuggled up with my puppy dog and some popcorn, sat on my couch and watched FINALLY an episode of The Office. There's no way I could give up everything like the Samanas.
 * Finishing Strong: **



THE AWAKENING

Siddhartha reached awakening as he was walking through a forest. He found his inner peace, and as he walked, "He looked around as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was beautiful, strange and mysterious" (39). For the first time in his life, Siddhartha really saw for the first time the beauty in the world. "All this, all this yellow and blue, river and wood..." (39). I pictured Siddhartha, encompassed in color and beauty, finding himself. "Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful, all mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself" (39).

I drew my picture in this way for many reasons. First, I drew Siddhartha on a path because I pictured Siddhartha's path to finding himself in a literal way. I drew him surrounded by "sky and river, woods and mountains..." (39). I incorporated the colors mentioned in the text, "here was blue, here was yellow, here was green" (39).Siddhartha is glowing because I feel like he almost had an out-of-body experience.

Kamala

Name: Kamala

Location: The Pleasure Grove (52)

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Chestnut Brown

About Me: Boys are into me. That's just how it goes when you have "black hair... a bright red mouth like a freshly cut fig, artful eyebrows painted in a high arch, dark eyes, clever and observant, and a clear slender neck" (51). I am independent and witty and I love what I do. I teach people how to love.

Hobbies/Profession: I am a "well known courtesan" (52). I like to give advice to those who need it, and I teach others and show them what it is to love.

Looking for: To be honest, I am searching for a man who has "fine clothes, fine shoes, and money in [his] purse" (54). I'm not a gold-digger, but let's be honest, I want a fancy lifestyle with lots of riches. Someone to buy me gifts and take care of me, but also someone who is smart and handsome. I am waiting for someone special to come along.

Living a Cycle First I wake up to a loud alarm at 7:00 I take a hot shower and get ready for the day ahead By 8:20 my sister insists we make our drive to AHS Then for 7 hours I go class to class, taking tests and taking notes and trying to stay awake After a little bit of TV, I get started on my mounds of homework Then I eat dinner with my family <span style="color: #470080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Finally, after my homework is done, I try to make it to bed by 11:00.

media type="custom" key="21479030" My routine is practically the same every day. I get up around the same time, always rather unwillingly. Then I get ready in the same way (even brushing my teeth and packing my backpack etc. in the same order). My sister and I drive the same route to school, I attend my same old classes and count down the class periods until my favorite part of my routine, leaving school. Then I do hours of homework, eat dinner, go to bed, and do the exact same thing over and over again. I don't know if I follow my routine just out of habit or if I take comfort in doing things in the same way. However, especially after reading __Siddhartha__, I am weary of living my life like Siddhartha did. He didn't notice as the days and weeks went by, realizing that he "barely felt their passing" (40). These are the dangers of living your life in a repeating cycle, you need to be sure to jazz it up every once and awhile. Unintentional rhyme.

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<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Analysis <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">: <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Now let's be honest here for a minute, this song isn't the best example in the whole wide world, but I really like Duran Duran so I had to. This girl named Rio is being compared to a river because of the way she dances. The quote I took from the song basically explains how rivers "dance" across a "dusty land," just going wherever they please, making their own path in the sand. Siddhartha also noticed this about rivers, he saw "That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future"(107), like someone dancing. See, I made it work.

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<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We must sing, we must sing, we must sing

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">And then they splashed into the deep blue sea <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">It was a wonderful splash

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We must blend into the choir <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Sing as static with the whole <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">And in this endless race for property and privilege to be won <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We must run, we must run, we must run

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">And then we’ll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">And then we’ll see it, oh we’ll see it, we’ll see it, we’ll see it

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Oh my morning's coming back <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The whole world’s waking up <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">All the city buses swimming past <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I’m happy just because <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I found out I am really no one"

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Analysis: <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Ok so I love this song a lot. In this song, the narrator, or man who is singing, comes up with a clear and rather disturbing outlook on our society and the world as he is about to plummet into the ocean trapped in a failed airplane. After he is in the ocean "at the bottom of everything," "we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we''ll see it" and what is the truth behind the world the narrator has come up with? What is the realization that we will see? "I found out I am really no one." Just as Siddhartha, after enlightenment realizes <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">"nothing is mine, I know nothing, I possess nothing, I have learned nothing" (77). Nothing about the river he had visited before had changed, he had just realized the consistency of the world. It is here that Siddhartha gains a good deal of wisdom about the world.

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<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Analysis:

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">"From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny. There shone in his face the serenity of knowledge, of one who is no longer confronted with conflict of desires, who has found salvation, who is in harmony with the stream of events, with the stream of life, full of sympathy and compassion, surrendering himself to the stream, belonging to the unity of things" (111). This quote relates to the song because Sebastian sings this song in an effort to convince Ariel how perfect their life is under the water. Sebastian says " <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor, such wonderful things surround you, what more is you lookin' for?" during the song, describing how serene and perfect the ocean is. Siddhartha realizes how little his troubles are when he stares into the river. The water keeps flowing no matter what, showing Siddhartha that life moves on. The water in both of these stories shows as a healing goodness, one that brings peace and happiness to those who will stop long enough to notice.

= Works Cited = Hesse, Herman. // Siddhartha //. New York: Bantam, 1971.