LachlanESB

Lachlan's Scrapbook
 * This is the place where I will write about the journey I follow to self-realization. My goal is to gain wisdom and takes steps towards enlightening myself. I will be following the journey of Siddhartha, the title character of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, as a model for my own journey. The steps I have taken follow. **

= 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 dirt-biking, because it's technically not something I need.

Getting Started
At the beginning it was hard for me to stop dirt-biking because I dirt-bike almost everyday and weekends with friends. On several weekends I stayed at home instead of going to the dirt-bike track with friends. ANALYSIS I drew this because Siddhartha uses these colors and descriptions when describing what he saw; "Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful..." (39) I incorporated the yellow with the sun shining down on the mountains, the blue by the sky and river, and green by the trees and grass. This setting impacts the story because it gives the reader a visual to what Siddhartha is seeing for the first time and realizing that he is finally on his way to enlightenment within himself. This quote helps to prove the point that Siddhartha is seeing the world as beautiful for the first time and starting to appreciate the little things in life and become awakened.