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**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 Facebook, because its not technically something I need rather something I enjoy.

Beginning of the week
The beginning of the week went by pretty smoothly i was unaffected by the giving up facebook. The idea seemed pretty resonable in the beginning since i get on facebook but not frequently. All in all i was unchanging and unaffected. "Path of liberation from self, through pain,through voluntary suffering." (Hesse 8)

**Middle of the week**
. Day 3 got harder because of the weekend and i usually check facebook to see what is going on, but instead i resisted the urge. Day 4 was used to not using facebook. To insure this i deleted the app. Thenas a sudden change i got my phone taken away so it was really hard to communicate with friends. As an alternative i used twitter more. It helped with communicating with my friends but it wasnt very informational on what was going on during the weekend. "Life was torment" (Hesse 7)

End of the week


Day 5, there was a suprising urge to use Facebook. I was soo close to using it but i had to keep in my that the last day was tomorrow so i restrained. Day 6, in order to keep my mind off of facebook i busied myself with homework. It was ALOT easier to focus on my homework without having the temptation of facebook. I finnished my homework with record time since i was focused on one thing. "Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as this self of mine" (Hesse 21)



Siddhartha reached awakening after when he realized that the world was truly beautiful. To him, awakening looked "World was beautiful, the world was full of variety, the world was strange and puzzling!". I chose to draw the beautiful world inside of an eye because it says that "All this, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, passed into Siddhartha through his eyes for the first time."

Kamala



 * Name ** : Kamala


 * Location: ** I live "Just outside of town, near a beautiful grove enclosed by a hadge." (52).


 * Eyes ** : I have "Dark eyes clever and alert" (28).


 * Hair ** : I have "High-piled black hair" (28).

**About Me: I am "very clever" (28). I am also well tended" and wear very fancy "outer garment" (28). I am very attractive and well educated. Many me are attracted to my beautiful looks. I look at life through the aspect of love. I have a scent that when make you fall in love with first "smell."**

**Hobbies / Profession: I am an expert on love and teach people about it emotionally. (30) I am very expirienced in it since guys fall at my feet and praise me, so i have lots to teach to those who are interested. I love to teach men about love.**

**Looking For: I look for men who visit me and will buy me elegant shoes and clothes (30). He must also be good looking with a good heart. They must too themselves come to see me in elegant clothes and shoes with oil and his hair and must smell good(30).**

**Samsara**

**My daily routine consist of: Waking up in a groggy mood, Meeting up with my friends in order to walk to school after i get ready, Then when im at school i go to class and talk to friends, When i get home I usually coach the step team of Parks Edge Commnity since its something I fairly enjoy. Then after that I do homework which I typically have on a daily basis, Then i call it a day when I have the honor of sleeping in my own bed. "Siddhartha had fallen into this ultimate, vilest dependency by way of an unusual, decietful path: through dice playing"(42). My life is also described by this quote because my life is very unpredictable.**

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=The river=

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Lyrics: Yellow river yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes Yellow river yellow river is in my blood it's the place I love Got no time for explanations got no time to lose Tomorrow night you'll find me

Quote from book: "and yet this Siddhartha was transformed, he was renewed, he was remarkably rested, remarkably awake, joyful and inquisitive." (Hesse 48)

Analysis: In this song Christie is talking about a soilder who is returning home a new man. This quote in the book displays how siddartha has transformed too. "And yet this Siddhartha was transformed, he was renewed, he was remarkably rested, remarkably awake, joyful and inquisitive." (Hesse 48) The soilder and siddartha are both transforming an "renewed" and they're happy to be at the place they are in there life.

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Lyrics: Oh lost river, far over ther ridge Now is it too late for me to build me a new bridge? To the bright golden time When her love was still mine And the world was still wild

Quote from book: "He saw himself distinctly, being entertained by Kamala, receiving her first kiss, looking back pridefully and contemptuously at his Brahman days, pridefully ginning his wordly life" (Hesse 68)

Analysis: This song is talking about first love and looking back on it for the first time. This ties in with the book because siddartha is clearly thinking about Kamala when he is at the river. Thinking things like "being entertained by Kamala, receiving her first kiss, looking back pridefully and contemptuously at his Brahman days, pridefully ginning his wordly life" (Hesse 68). They both are comparing they're first love to two words...Entertaining and wild.

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Lyrics; Two drifters off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end

Quote from book: "He felt as if the river had something special to tell him, something he did not yet know but was still awaiting for him." (Hesse 54)

Analysis: This song is about seeing the world from a special point of view, but everyone has the one goal to "reach the end of the rainbow". The connection between the two is to reach the river/rainbow where you can reach enlightenment/your full potential. "He felt as if the river had something special to tell him, something he did not yet know but was still awaiting for him." (Hesse 54) The river is the special place where you can be yourself and fully evolve. And that's the special place at the end of the rainbow.

__Om__

In Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse a young man struggles with reaching peace. He laves his wealthy family because he wants to learn more about suffering. He then joins the ascetics, then leaves them to live a life where he ends up sick. He then leaves town where he comes to a river and hears the om where he starts his "new life". His entire journey helped emphasize the theme that wisdom comes from experience, and with the book split into two (the 1st part being about going from rich to poor and the 2nd part about him starting from rich going to poor) it also enhances the fact that his life goes in a circle. This book is broken into two parts. The first part is how he leaves his father to go explore the life of "suffering" and then from there he goes to try and be an ascetic where he goes through the dramatic drop into the poor world. The second part of the book is where he's recovering from his poverty and is now building another rich life (and where he meets Kamala). From then he goes to the river because "He felt as if the river had something special to tell him, something he did not yet know but was still awaiting for him," (Hesse 54) and the river is where he reaches enlightenment. From that part in the second part, he goes back to being poor again. This is the cycle he went through twice and proves that his life doesn't go in a straight line and instead goes in a circle. The two parts also give us the insight of how Siddhartha was before and after enlightenment. This can relate to my life because I continue to go in a circle until I learn from the mistake. The circle like structure of the book helps me cobnclude my last point. The two broken parts contribute to enhancing the ideas of rebirth in this story. Siddhartha spends almost his entire life exploring different ways to achieve Enlightenment. When Siddhartha finally reached enlightenment "Siddhartha was transformed, he was renewed, he was remarkably rested, remarkbly awake, joyful and insqusitive." (Hesse 48) After that, Siddhartha was reborn. This story was mainly about Siddhartha trying to become one with himself and reach his full potential of just being human. He finally got the wisdom he so desperately earned after seeing buddha and saying "Everything in your teachings is perfectly clear and fully proven, you show the world to be a perfect chain, never and nowhere interrupted, and eternal chain fashioned out of cause and effects" (Hesse 18) and by that he fullfilled his full potential in life. From going from rich to poor, back to rich and back to poor again, says so much about the structure of the book, theme of the book, and just the general mood of the book. Siddhartha could be a great guide to direct someone through the journey that is life.