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Jesse Thorne's scrapbook


 * With the Samanas **

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 my iPod, because it's something i use everyday, but i don't really need it.
 * The Assignment **

**The Beginning**: At the beginning of the week, i wasn't feeling very confident about how long i would last without my iPod My iPod is not only the way i listen to my music but it is also my main source of internet. For the first day i just sat in my room and actually did all my homework, instead of wasting my time on the internet. It felt good to have everything done for once. **Mid-week:** By the middle of the week I felt deprived of the internet. I felt like I needed it, i was “suffering from thirst” (10) On Tuesday i actually needed to check my email for school but i only staid on for about 10 minutes, so i don't think that counts. I feel like i'm missing out on a lot of social things because all my friends interact on Facebook. The sad part is that even though I don't have the internet, i still procrastinate my work til last second, and i just sit around bored for most of the day. "The world had a bitter taste. life was torment." (7)

without the internet, not only did i need it for homework but i also just really wanted to be able to talk to my friends because i don't get to see a lot of them at school "He fastened fourteen days. He fasted twenty eight days" (13) Yeah Siddhartha lasted a lot longer than a few days, but i honestly thought that i needed it because i was feeling left out and sad. I learned through this that i seriously can't live without the internet, i will probably never do this again, because i don't want to be like this picture anymore.
 * The End: ** I couldn't make it to the end of the week. I found it to difficult to be

"All of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical." When Siddhartha first came out of the grove he said it was like being awakened and he "started to emit like rays of light" so i drew golden light coming from him, as if he had just become enlightened. He also said "The mountains were fixed in one place" and "the sky and river flowed" So i drew the river coming from the mountains. I drew the grove and the trees as almost colorless to enpasize how when he walked out of the grove he was like he was being reborn again.
 * Awakening **

**Name:** Kamala
 * Kamala **

**Area**: The Pleasure Grove

**Eyes**: Brown

**Hair**: Black

**About Me**: When you first meet me, you may only see my beauty, but there is much more, I am smarter than I may seem. "You observed well, you have seen everything." (53) I am a very wealthy, high class girl, so if you are not wealthy then you should leave me alone.

**Hobbies:** My hobby is love, i would say i am an expert in it."the art in which you are an expert" (30) I am a high class prostitute who only works for the most wealthy men who pay the highest prices.

The only thing i desire is a man who can support me and my lavish lifestyle. " He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes good looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse, and gifts for Kamala" (30) But I would also really like it if they could "read and write, very good" (32).
 * What I'm looking for: **


 * Samsara **



My daily routine is very similar every single day. I wake up at around 7, but i hit the snooze button around 3 times before actually getting up. After actually getting up and ready, packing my bag for school and heading to the bus, my day is pretty routine. After my bus ride home I go on the internet and just mess around til around 8 when i start my homework. I usually go to bed at around 12-ish. This is pretty much how my day goes. I think because my days are so routine they go by a lot faster, I feel like i don't have enough time in the day to do things and sometimes i feel like the i "barely felt their passing" (40)


 * The River **

media type="youtube" key="yVm8PjWCvLg?hl=en_US" height="315" width="420" To the praying Mother and the worried Father Let your children go If they come back they'll come home stronger And if they don't you'll know "Siddhartha, that willful, strange man; and yet this Siddhartha was transformed, and he was renewed, he was remarkably rested, remarkable awake, joyful and inquisitive." (48) **Analysis:** I think the river was Siddhartha's symbolic home, because he always came back to it, but when he came back he realised how much he had grown as a person and he was much stronger. media type="youtube" key="IQp4SA6CR_4?rel=0" height="360" width="480" Now you say you love me Well, just to prove that you do  Come on and cry me a river, oh, cry me a river I cried a river over you, I cried a river over you "His features distorted, he stared into the water; seeing the reflection of his face, he spat at it. In profound weariness he detached his arm from the tree trunk and turned his body slightly so that he would fall vertically, and finally perish. His eyes closed, he was dropping to his death" (47).
 * Good Charlotte "The River" **
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 * Micheal Bublé "Cry Me a River" **
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 * Analysis: ** The song represents how Siddhartha has transcended the sorrow he once felt, he once "cried a river" but now he has found his way to enlightenment.

media type="youtube" key="4DE5a80I8EU?rel=0" height="315" width="560" I look once more Just around the rive rbend Beyond the shore Where the gulls fly free Don't know what for What I dream the day might send Jut around the river bend For me Coming for me  **Quote:** "I have learned that from the river too; everything comes back. You, too samana, will come back." (49) **Analysis:** I picked this song because Siddhartha doesn't know what is going to happen next, or what is going to be just around the river bend. He goes with the flow and does things that will help him reach enlightenment, in his own way.
 * Pocahontas "Just Around The River Bend" **
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// **I chose to modernize chapter one of the book.** //
 * // Om //**

Gavin always knew there was something special about Sid, from the day he knew him he knew he was absolutely in love with him. Everything Sid did make Gavin's heart beat faster. "He loved Siddhartha's eye and sweet voice, he loved his walk and the perfect decency of his movements, he loved everything Siddhartha did and said and what he loved most was his spirit, his transcendent, fiery thoughts, his ardent will, his high calling." Gavin knew that he would do anything for Sid, even if that meant going against the rules.

Gavin and Sid both met at the Christian boys Academy they attended. Even though they had been friends since they were little kids Gavin always knew people liked Sid more than him. He was a really good guy, always trying to do what was best for others. "Siddhartha was thus loved by everyone. He was a source of joy for everybody, he was a delight for them all." Gavin and Sid both enjoyed going to morning prayer and studying the bible, but sometimes Sid would think how it was getting old, and he was having doubt in some of the things they were teaching him. The bible said that if you follows God path you will reach heaven, but Sid felt that there must be another way, surely there can't be only one way to reach God? Sometimes late at night when he was supposed to be sleeping, Siddhartha would think about things like this, losing sleep, and making himself feel depressed. "Siddhartha had started to nurse discontent in himself, he had started to feel that the love of his father and the love of his mother, and also the love of his friend, Govinda, would not bring him joy for ever and ever, would not nurse him, feed him, satisfy him." 

One day Sid decided that the only way he would know for sure if there could only be one way to heaven was to become a monk. The monks would pass by his school every once in awhile, but they usually stayed put in there monastery. So one day Sid and Gavin went to Church to do their regular prayers, before they started Sid asked Gavin.. "So what do you think about me becoming a monk?" Gavin's face looked shocked. "Why would you ever do that? Would your father even let you?" "I think it would be a good way to test myself, i have a lot of questions that i think require a lot of time and meditation." Sid replied, looking for a reaction from Gavin. "Siddhartha looked over as if he was just waking up. Arrow-fast he read in Govinda´s soul, read the fear, read the submission." "Don't worry Gav, it's going to be fine."

The next day Sid walked into his Father's office. Sid's Father was a highly respected politician who was currently running for mayor, he took his work very seriously and usually didn't like being disturbed. As Sid walked in, his Father noticed him, looking up he said. "Oh hello Sid, if you would like to have a word, take a seat" he said pointing to the chair in front of the desk. Sid gladly took it. "So whats the deal?" His Father said "Well you see Father.." Sid hesitantly said "With your permission, my father. I came to tell you that it is my longing to leave your house tomorrow and go to the ascetics. My desire is to become a Samana. May my father not oppose this." Sid looked at his Father's reaction. It was very similar to that of Gavins. They sat there for awhile, His Father trying to figure out what to do with Sid. After a few more minutes of intense thinking he finally let out a sign. "If that is what you want, hopefully when you return you will be able to teach me something." Sid let out a huge smile and hugged his Father goodbye. He ran upstairs and grabbed his bible and a few other he might need. As he dashed down the stairs and towards the door, swinging it open to reveal Gavin."'You have come," said Siddhartha and smiled. "I have come," said Govinda."