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=KK's Scrapbook=

=With the Samanas=

The assignment
To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascetics that are found in the novel //Siddhartha//, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy for a week. I chose to give up texting because its something I do all the time, and I need to give it a rest for a while. =Beginning of the Week= "He fasted for fifteen days" (7). That's exactly what this process felt like in the beginning. I don't know what I was thinking, but I decided to give up texting for an entire week. The three most important things in a teenagers life are sleep, getting good grades, and a social life. With those three things comes a challenge of only being able to have two of them because time runs out fast. I sacrificed sleep to have a social life and get good grades. Not being able to text is taking away from my social life. I rely on texting to receive information, and to talk to friends and family. It was time to convert to the olden days where they didn't have cellphones to text so they had to talk in person or over the phone. Its harder to do that now with all of this new technology. =Middle of the Week= I was going crazy not being able to text anybody. By the middle of the week I had about fifty unread text messages from fifty different people. "Life was torment" (8). It was so challengning not to text anybody back. I already deleted my twitter account so all I had left was Instagram and texting, and now I was just down to Instagram. I actually found that people were actually mad at me for not texting them back. They thought I was mad at them or ignoiring them. I was having withdrawals from my phone and obviously thats not a good thing. If you compare an average teenager from the 50's and a teenager from 2012, there would be a big difference in their social lives, and the quality time spent with friends and family in person. =End of the Week= I have a change of heart when it comes to texting now. Its something thats not important like everybody makes it out to be. There are more important things in this world other than texting. I talk to people on the phone a lot more, and I don't text as much. I don't even text people back sometimes because its not that important to me anymore. Not texting allowed me to be more engaged in my school work, talk more with my family, and get focused on bigger and better things. This project did teach me a lot even though it was only for a week. "-The path of liberation from self through pain, through voluntary suffering...." (8). That quote basically says you have to suffer sometimes to know the good of something else.

=Awakening= ==

Awakening sounds kind of like starting over and realizing something you hadn't. Siddhartha ultimately reached awakening when he left Govinda. The awakening looked like this to Siddhartha, "The world was beautiful, the world was full of variety.... Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green; sky flowed....." (22). I tried to make the colors in my picture stand out the most. Blue, yellow, and green were important elements of his awakening. I imagined it being very vibrant and beautiful with a river flowing. The river would have trees along each side, and some mountains would be visible. With my religion I see this image as the passage to Haven to be with God. =Kamala=

Name: Kamala

Location: The Palace with a nice Grove (28)

Eyes: Dark Brown (28)

Hair: Dark Brown (28)

About Me:
I have "high piled black hair a very fair, very soft, very clever face, bright red lips like a newly opened fig, eyebrows well tended and painted in the form of high arches, dark eyes clever and alert, a long, fair neck emerging from the green-and-gold outer garment, fair hands at rest, long and narrow, with wide gold bracelets at the wrists"(28)

Hobbies/Profession: I use my body to get the things I need. Yes, I sell it and I am a prostitute.
Looking For: I want a rich man, he can't be poor. He should shower me with gifts and spoil me.

=Samsara *COMIC STRIP WOULDN'T UPLOAD*= "It was always the art of thinking, waiting, and fasting that directed his life; the people of the world, the child-people, had always still remained foreign to him, just as he was foreign to them."

Everyday I wake up, check my phone, then go take a shower. I eat breakfast and get ready to go to school. I hangout with my friends, and go to class also. After school I have basketball practice for about two and a half hours. I eat dinner, take a shower, and then eventually go to bed. I pay more attention to the quest of being happy instead of the meaning of life. That has changed over time because I have come to terms that life is way too short. = = =The River= "Was it possible to keep on constantly breathing in, breathing out, feeling hunger, eating again, sleeping again, lying with a woman again? Was not this cycle exhausted and terminated for him?" (47). media type="custom" key="21735960" align="left" "Makes each day a constant battle Just to stay between the shores"

Each day was a constant battle for Siddhartha. In a way he was kind of confused, and he needed guidance and support. Siddhartha is setting out to find himself because the world to him was foreign, just as the world saw him as foreign. In this song (The River), its as if the artist is searching for answers asking why and looking for inspiration. Siddhartha has done this throughout the book which is what led him to go on this journey. **" I got a stream of kisses 'bout 10 miles long **
 * Dancing on the water in the moonlight beach **
 * Sparkling down through the sea of dreams" **

**This song reminds me of Siddhartha's love life and his feelings toward Kamala. You can feel the love as its spoken. As first Siddhartha's feelings weren't really there. " He had never yet touched a woman, he hesitated for a monemt, though his hands were already ste to reach out to her" (28). It was ike Siddhartha fell in love with Kamala at first sight. He was so foreign to the world that he hadn't realized that the "butterflies" he was experincing was feeling love. **

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media type="custom" key="21787878" align="left""You were my sun You were my Earth" This song can repersent a lot of symbols in this story. It can talk about Siddhartha's relationship to Kamala, to his son, to his father, or to his "mentor". There was a lot of love expressed, but all for different reasons. I can reference this song to the movie we watched in class. The father of Siddhartha felt this way about his own son thats why he shielded him from the world. ZHe wasnted to protect Siddhartha and to have the best possible life.