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= Ethan Anderson's Scrapbook =

Assignment
To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascentics that are found in the novel Siddhartha, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy daily for a week. I chose to give up gum, because I don't need gum, I want gum because I don't technically need it to live.

Getting Started
=== For the first few days of my self-deprivation, I had high hopes and good moral. I was actually a little pumped about trying something like this, because I had never participated in any fasts like this. My very first day I === === also managed to get a piece of gum into my mouth without even thinking about it because it is part of my internal schedule. Pushing past my first trial, I managed to live without it for the rest of the day. The following day I still was excited, but on a lower level. I also became slightly self conscious of how my breath smelled. I started chewing on other things just to have that chewing feeling in my mouth again. Examples of this are my sleves, and sweatshirt strings. ===

Awakening
Siddhartha reached awakening after leaving the Buddha and Govinda. To him, awakening looked like, "as if he was seeing the world for the first time". I choose to draw a valley full of bright colors because he discribed in detail which colors stood out to him as if he was seeing them for the first time.

Location: The Pleasure Grove
Hair: DEEP Brown About me: I'm a very wealthy woman and an established member of my society. I gain my wealth through my teachings of how to love. I think of myself as attractive physically, and also more clever than more people may think. " You observed well, you saw everything"(29)

Hobbies/Professon: My main hobby includes love and everything and anything that has to do with it, including teaching it. I also enjoy caring for my pet bird that I love very much.

Looking for: I'm looking for a wealthy man that can support me and offer good things in the relationship " He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes good looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse, and gifts for Kamala" (30) I like a man that dresses to reflect how wealthy he is. A smart and clever as I am is preferable as well.

Analysis:

= Samsara =

My daily life:
1. Wake up 2. Eat 3. Shower 4. drive to school 5. sleep through school 6. eat 7. sleep more 8. go home 9. sports practice 10. go home 11. do homework 12. eat 13. go to bed

The Comic!


= The River =

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Song: "The River" by Good Charlotte Lyrics: "I've done enough now to know this beautiful place isn't everything they say" Quote from text: "...nothing was left but the deepseated, sorrowful longing to shake off that entire chaotic dream..." Analysis: When I searched on youtube "river" this is what came up first. Good Charlotte was one of my favorite bands when I was younger. I was very happy when I found it because I was familiar with the band. The narrorator talks about throughout the song how the place that he has been trying to get to isn't all that it was made out to be. In Siddhartha, Siddhartha talks about how the place where he lived his previous life wasn't what everyone should want.