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=//**Marco Pan'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 gum, because it's technically not something I need. Technically.

=The beginning of the Week= The first two days of the week was quite challenging.l I thought about chewing gum at least once every 2 hours while in class. Gum usually keeps me more concentrated in class. I feel bored and my mouth empty of gum. I feel suffering when I see others chewing gum while I'm not chewing gum. To me I thought about a quote, "Please do not speak such terrifying words"(Hesse 10) as a quote that relates to my choice of giving up gum.

=Middle of the Week= After a total of two days, my willpower was all but gone but in order to complete my goal to salvation, I decided to switch to alternative. I thought long and hard about an alternative and finally decided on mints. I had bought four packs of ice breaker mints to help me on this journey for I did not no how many I would consume in a want for gum. After one day, I found out I consumed half a ice breaker and that they can be quite addicting, fore it reminds me of chewing on mint flavored gum. After two day, I finished one pack and was already up to the next pack of mints. I fear I may have cause a monster that hungers for mints to be release. When I thought of my giving up on cewing gum, I thought about a quote that was similiar to my giving up on gum. It was "He fasted for fifteen days. He fasted for twenty-eight days"(7). =End of the Week= After a long suffering of not chewing gum and starting to eat mint, I have started to finish two packs of ice breakers mint every two days. I no longer desire for gum because I now have mints to eat. I may go back to chewing on gum if my mint is all depleted. That is if I do not buy anymore. I thought of a quote that relates to my enjoying what I have until it's gone. It is "Let us enjoy those fruits and wait for the rest"(13).

=Awakening= Sidartha reached awaking when he left his friend Govinda and became alone. To him awaking gave him a new point of view on the strange yet beautiful world. I choose to draw this because he was alone just like a star alone in the sky, far away from his friends.

Kamala
**About Me** "You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and within you there is a tranquility and refuge."(39) "Siddhartha saw how beautiful she was and his heart rejoiced."(29)  What makes Kamala so appealing to SIddhartha is that she is the first person who didn't look down on him while he was a semana.
 * Name ** : Kamala
 * Location ** : Grove of Kamala located in a town
 * Eyes ** : Dark eyes
 * Hair ** : High-piled black hair

**Hobbies / Profession**  Kamala's profession is a courtesan. She likes to spend her time in her grove near town. How I found this was through the quotes ," He asked the next person who came his way about the grove and that woman's name, and he learned that it was the grove of Kamala, the renowned courtesan."(29) ** Looking For ** Kamala looks for a man who has excellent, handsome clothes, good-looking shoes, lots of money, and gifts for her. The quote that had the answer was,"No my good man, he still does not satisfy me! He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes, good-looking shoes, and lots of money in his purse, and gifts for Kamala."(30)

Samsara My Daily Life 1.Get out of bed 2.Eat breakfast with my family 3.Go to school and enjoy my day there 4.Go home on a motorize vehicle 5.Arrive at home 6.Finish homework as well as study 7. Play video games 6.Go to sleep after i finished everything for the day 7.Repeat

=Quote from Siddhartha= "Siddartha remained with the ferryman and learned." "He lived alongside Vasudeva like a friend; and at times they exchanged word with each other."(57)

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=Analysis= My daily life is a set of repeating actions that continues for many days unless something special has occured. It begins with me getting out of bed after waking up at around 7:30am. After that I eat breakfast and then go to school. I enjoy my afternoon at school learning as well as talking to friends. I go home on the bus. When I get home, I finish my homework as well as study for a little bit because the homework I recieved drains most of my free time. When I finished my homework and studying, I play video games till the day is over. And then the cycle continues just like the previous day. Siddartha's daily life is just like a repeating cycle where he gets paid to get travelers across the river. "The years went by with no one counted them."(59) This is how I feel my life is like because of my repeated actions. That will probably continue until I graduate from school and a new life begins.

=The River=

All This Time by Sting
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Lyrics
And all this time the river flowed Endlessly like a silent tear

Quote from the text:
"And when I had learned that, I looked at my life, and it, too was a river."(58)

Analysis:
When I thought about this quote and the reason why Siddhartha was searching for enlightenment, it reminded me of this lyric from the song All This Time by Sting. The reincarnation is just like the river, it will continue to repeat. The river will always continue moving never the same water just like Siddhartha's reincarnation will always be different.

=Boat on the River by Styx= media type="youtube" key="K9Qs8-BkiLw" height="315" width="420"

Lyrics
Oh the river is deep The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand

Quote from the text:
How he loved that water, how it delighted him, how grateful he was to it! In his hear he heard the voice speak, the newly awakened one, and it said to hi: " Love this water! Remain by it! Learn form it!"(54)

Analysis:
He river touched his life so much that it changed his future. Because of the river, he decided to stay by it becoming a ferryman while learning for Vasudeva. "I shall remain by this river"(54)

=River of Happiness by Dolly Parton= media type="youtube" key="NfVXIMq7hIQ" height="315" width="420"

Lyrics
We'll find a place where there's laughter and joy So take my hand and don't let go

Quote from the text:
How he loved that water, how it delighted him, how grateful he was to it! In his hear he heard the voice speak, the newly awakened one, and it said to hi: " Love this water! Remain by it! Learn form it!"(54) =Analysis:= The river was where Siddhartha found to be like a paradise. THe place where he discovered his own enlightenment. His love for the river is like happiness to oneself. THe quote of lyrics are similar due to the fact that Siddhartha had found the place he wanted to be in after a long journey filled with learning and suffering as well as the pleasures that came with it.