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Justin Aylor's Scrapbook

=With The Samanas=

The Assignment
To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascetics that are found in the novel __Siddartha__, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy for a week. I chose to give up soda, because it's technically not something I **need**. Technically.

Getting Started
The first few days of giving up soda was actually quite difficult beacuse it was the weekend and we normally go out to eat on those days so it was difficult havig to order water but there was a perk being it was free. Soda was always something that I would drink if we went out to eat or when I got home from school. Although I could have the healthier choice by going to water I always chose the Mountain Dew or Coke. They just made evering taste better.



Beginning of the week
The beginnning of the week was the hardest for me considering it was the weekend. Although we went out to eat I still managed to not drink soda and order the more healthier decision water. As a matter of fact, water made the food taste better because water is no taste. I was to have a goal similar to Siddarthas,"to become empty, to become empty of thirst, dreams, pleasure and sorrow"(14). This was exactly the same to me meaning to rid myself of the crave of thirst to soda.

Mid-Week
My mid- week was very painful having to go through school without having a soda to drink for lunch, having to settle for a measly gatorade. My suffering became stronger and I began to have headaches, migranes and so on just from not having soda. I told my mom aboutt the issue and she simply said you're having a caffeine withdrawl. Having to settle for water was not working and I didnt know if I could make it through this week without the caffeine of soda. I felt the sense of,"The world tasted bitter. Life was a pain."(14)

By The End
BY the end of the week I could not do it anymore I was going through major headaches that ibuprofen could not fix. I do not know how Siddartha learned how to fast and do many things for much longer than I could even drink soda. "He then no longer feels his self, no longer feels the pain of life; he the experiences temporary escape."(17) This is something I simply could not do I gave up on the challenge, the suffering. There is no way I could do this long term like Siddartha, I would have gone crazy and lose all will pwer and give up.

=Awakening=

The Quote
Siddartha finally finds awakening after he leaves the Buddha. He then feels that he needs to learn more about himself and more about the world. When he walks from the grave,"He realized that he was no longer a youth; he was now a man."(37) Once he reaches the river,"He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was beautiful, strange and mysterious. 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, Siddartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself."(39) I chose this quote because I loved the way it portrayed his awakening showing how he saw the world for the first time. Telling him how beautiful it was and how amazing it looked.

Analysis
My drawing portrayed how Siddartha saw the world for the first time in his eyes. How he saw the beautiful sky and the river blue and trees and grass green.

=Kamala=

About me
I am a very wealthy and beautiful woman. I am attractive and I have a way with men. I also have a thing with a man named Siddartha he is so sweet and is very nice to me and he thinks I am beautiful always giving me compliments. "Beneath heaped-up black hair he saw a bright, very swet, very clever face, a bright red mouth like a freshly cut fig, artful eyebrows painted in high arch, dark eyes, clever and observant, and a clear slender neck above her green and gold down."(51) This the very first thing my darling thought of me.

Hobbies
SinceI am very wealthy I get most of my money from my teachings and all of the mean I teach. My biggest hobbie would have to be the spread of love through my teachings. "I am already beginning to learn from you."(54) My darling had said this to me from the first day he met me which shows how much of a good teacher I am.

Looking For
When I think of a man I want a man to treat me with respect and not be a servant to me because I want him to be also rich and having servants. I want him to be able to woo me and have much money in order to repay me for my teachings with gifts. I want him to be very handsome and dress appropriately around me."He must have clothes, fine clothes, and shoes, fine shoes, and plenty of money in his purse and presents for Kamala."(54)

=Samsara=

My Daily Life

 * 1) Wake up.
 * 2) Get ready.
 * 3) Get on the bus to go to school.
 * 4) Go to class and learn.
 * 5) Eat lunch learn some more.
 * 6) Go home on the bus.
 * 7) Play xbox.
 * 8) Eat dinner.
 * 9) Home work and shower.
 * 10) Go to sleep.

Quote From Siddartha
"The years passed by. Enveloped by comfortable circumstances, Siddartha hardly noticed there passing."(75) ==

Analysis
I feel like my life is just a routine. I do the same things every day it hardly ever changes with the exception of me not playing my xbox a couple days. But I understand where Siddartha comes from saying how the years passed by not noticing hardly anything. This ties into my life because I will wake up the same time every morning go to school and study and I feel like Monday comes then 5 minutes later its Friday like that! I feel like that time is just flying by and I am not noticing anything almost like im in autopilot.

=The River= []

Frank Sinatra- Moody River
Lyrics: "I looked into the muddy water and what could I see? I saw a lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me Tears in his eyes and a prayer on his lips And the glove of his lost love at his fingertips"

Quote from the book:"With a distorted countenance he stared into the water. He saw his face reflected, and spat in it."(89)

Analysis
Frank Sinatra is singing about himself being alone and unhappy because of what happened with him and his love. When SIddartha looks at his relection in the water he realizes that he is regretting the paths he tried to take during his life up until this point. Both people looking into the water were not happy and satisfied with what they were looking at. They didn't want that bad picture to be reflected in the water. They were sad with what they saw. Just like whenit says he spit in the water because he wass disgusted at what he had become.

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Elton John- If the River Can Bend
Lyrics: "There's a great awakening and a new morning And your spirit's pounding loud and clear"

Quote from the book:"Siddartha looked up and around him, a smile crept over his face, and a strongfeeling of awakening from a long dream spread right through his being."(39)

Analysis
The song by Elton John shows awakening and how clear and loud it is. In Siddartha it is the same way how Siddartha finds awakening and when he does it is beautiful and clear. It shows how great awakening is for Siddartha and how the "smile crept over his face." Also when he felt the strong feeling of awakening spread right through his being. filling him up with wonderful awakening making his spirit loud and clear just like in Elton Johns song.

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Louis Armstrong- Lazy River
Lyrics: "Linger in the shade of an old oak tree Throw away your troubles, dream a dream with me"

Quote from the book: "Later, when the sun was beginning to set, they sat on a tree trunk by the river and Siddarthantold him about his orgin and his life and how he had seen him today after that hour of despair."(104)

Analysis
I think these lyrics by Louis Armstrong are very equivalent to the book when Siddartha and the ferryman. Just when in the song how it shows peace going underneath the oak tree and when he says,"Throw away all your troubles, dream a dream with me." It is like Siddarttha how he finds peace by the river and how he feels good talking to the ferryman because he is such a good listener. Also how Siddartha had that hour of despair and in the song how he says throw away all your troubles. Shows how Siddartha threw away all of that hour and talked to the ferryman about his life and orgin.

=Om= Govinda is one of the main characters in the novel of "Siddartha Herman Hesse" and learns from Siddartha in some parts of the book. He is very close to Siddartha and they are very good friends. He acts as a foil for Siddartha because they are so much alike yet they are so different at the same time.

Most of the book they are different though because normally Siddartha is a leader while on the other hand Govinda is much more of a follower. There are several occasions in the book when this is clearly shown although Govinda is only in the story for periods at a time because most of his life he spent worshiping the Buddha. One time when they both wanted to be samanas Siddarta took action and Govinda followed. Many times when Govinda kept coming back across the river when Siddartha was sleeping and when he was a ferryman it almost seemed if that Govinda was jealous of Siddarthas life. But when Siddartha is the leader and shows how he wants to take his life and be a samana and find everything he wants, when Govinda goes to worship the Buddha he shows how he is being a follower. Then he says this,"Govinda turned to Siddartha and said eagerly:"Siddartha, it is not for me to reaproach you. We have both listened to the Illustrius One, we have both heard his teachings. Govinda has listened to the tecahings and has accepted them, but you, my dear friend, will you not also tread the path of salvation? Will you delay, will you still wait?" When he heard Govinda's words, Siddartha awakened as if from a sleep. He looked at Govinda's face for a long time. Then he spoke softly and there was no mockery in his."Govinda, my friend, you have taken the step, you have chosen your path. You have always been my friend, Govinda, you have chosen your path. You have gone a step behind me."(29)

This is a prime example how Siddartha is a leader and Govinda is just a step behind him being a follower this is how they are so much different. Another time they are different not so much as a leader and a follower but just as completely two different actions. One action being a worshiper and the other being in royalty with servants and many things just handed to him. While Siddartha had clean clothes and everything handed to him such as food while on the other hand Govinda had to go throught the streets and beg for food with the Buddha. But this is somehow showing how they are alike just because they both lived in the pleausre grove. Siddartha being fed and learning how to recieve money with no input. When Govinda lived there it says how in the book,"Govinda once spent a rest period with some monks in the pleasure grove which Kamala, the courtesan, had once presented to the followers of Gotama."(139)

Another occasion on when Siddartha is the same as Govinda is when he is chasing his son back into the vilage because he had runaway. He ends up not being able to find him and he goes back to the pleasure grove. He sits there and just thinks about the first time he had walked into the grove and saw Kamala on her chair. But when he goes into the grove after giving up on his son he goes and sits down underneath one of the trees. "He sat and listened in the dusty road, listened to his heart which beat wearily and sadly and waited for a voice . He crouched there and listened for many hours, saw no more visions, sank into emptiness and let himself sink without seeing a way out. And when he felt the wound smarting, he whispered the word Om, filled himself with Om."(127) This is exactly how Govinda is because he sits in the pleasure grove when he worships the Buddha and says,"Om." So somewhat they are alike acting the same way in this instance.

Another example of Siddartha acting like a leader and Govinda being a follower. Siddartha reaches awakening before Govinda does realizing that the river is his calling and he realizes he needs to listen and be with the river the rest of his life. But also when he leaves the grove after the Buddha he also sees the world for the first time when he sees the blue and the green of everything and it becoming no longer a blur to him. But at the end of the book Govinda finally reaches it when Siddartha kisses him on the forehead. It then says,"He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddartha. Instead he saw other faces, many faces, a long series, a continuous stream of faces- hundreds, thousands, which all came and disappeared and yet all seemed to be there at the same time."(150) This shows how Govinda goes through awakening and how he is a follower and how Siddartha is the leader by helping him find awakening and by finding it first.

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