RobertScrapbook2

Robert's Scrapbook

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 saying cuss words for the week. I think its a doable feat because cussing isn't to big of a problem for me. =Beginning of the week:= The beginning of the week started on a thursday for me and it wasn't all that hard to give up cussing. I just woke up on thursday and remembered not to cuss, and i just went on with my dayand i didn't cuss. I did find it hard not to cuss, i had to keep reminding myself. On friday i skipped school because i had to go to a wedding in Georgia, therefore I spent the whole day in a car driving to Georgia with my mother so I had no reason to cuss. As Siddhartha said, " Let us not waste words" (Hesse 5)

= = Middle of the week: The middle of my week consisted of Saturday and Sunday, and let me tell you it was hard. Saturday was spent preparing the wedding and i think i just let some words slip. I know i did fairly well with no cussing on saturday. However my language saturday evening was awful, i was at a wedding with a whole bunch of drunk people and it was very easy to let words slip out of my mouth. On Sunday I didnt cuss because i was in the car the whole day driving home with my mother. That made me think if i try i could easily give it up as Siddhartha said "What is concentration" (9).

End Of The Week: The end of the week was Monday and Tuesday, both these days were hard because i was back at school, and when your around your friends who are cussing, youre more inclinded to cuss, "But Siddhartha was silent" (11), I wish i could be more like him and just be quiet. I dont cuss that much at all in class but when im in the breezeway i just let loose. I think that not cussing is very easy when youre in the right enviroment, but in the wrong enviroment it is very easy to say bad words.


 * Awakening**

Siddhartha was was a crazy and devoted man to the way of the samana. I chose to draw these pictures because i feel they well represent the world in which Siddhartha is living in. " Here was blue, yellow, there was green"(22). With the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were fixed in their place"(22). This made me want to draw the mountains, big and bold, flowing with the colors of life. "When he stood alone like a star in the sky"(22). I used as star in the sky with an eye in it to symbolize siddhartha's veiw on the world. I added a butterfly flying and a patch of flowers to symbolize peace and tranquility. I feel that Siddhartha is a very relaxed, one with nature kind of man.


 * Kamala:**




 * Name:** Kamala
 * Location:** The Pleasure Grove


 * Eyes:** Blue


 * Hair:** Black Hair


 * About Me:** I am beautiful, with a pure gold nose ring, i have light blue eyes that look deep into your soul,i am of pale skin and im very skilled in my job. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)


 * Hobbies/Profession:** For a living I sell my body for money. I am "well-known courtesan" (52). I enjoys the "pleasures of love" (55). And in my free time, I enjoy waiting on my bed for a strong young man who i can tempt and have my way with. My absolute favorite thing is sitting outside flirting with men.


 * Looking For in a Man:**My man needs to be attractive. "He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes good looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse,and gifts for[me]."(pg. 30) I wont look at you or talk to you if you don't have nice clothes. A real man needs to have attractive shoes. You also need to smell nice. I can't have anything less than this. You need to be strong and darked skin with muscle and witt.

my daily routine is this: wake up at 630, take a shower, skip break fast, and come to school about 730, I then go to my first class, then my second, have 3 lunch, go to my third class, then my fourth, i go to wrestling practice after school until 630,my dad picks me up, I go home, take a shower, and eat dinner at 7, I then do homework, and go to bed around 10.

**Quote from Siddhartha:**
"He had tasted riches, passion and power, but for a long time he remained a Samana in his heart." (75) "His life was always directed by the art of thinking, waiting and fasting." (75) "He had become rich. He had long possessed a house oh his own and his own servants, and a garden at the outskirts of the town, by the river. People liked him; they came to him if they wanted money or advice."

Analysis: My week day life is boring, i do the same boring things, go to the same boring school, take the same boring classes, eat the same boring lunch, live in the same boring house, and then I pass out on the couch at night after a very tiring day. However i always have fun on the weekend and those days are never boring. I realized that i just sounded like a Debbie Downer but its sometimes true.

River:

1) []River By Good Charlotte Lyrics: In the city was a sinner I've done a lot of things wrong but I swear I'm a believer Like the prodigal son I was out my own "This water flowed and flowed it kept flowing, and yet was always there; it was always at all times the same and yet new every moment!" (54)

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"River of love, River of love, River of love. Rolling on the river of love, Let's go rolling, rolling on the river of love. Let's go rolling on the river of love. Rolling on the river of love. Rolling on the river of love. "I will remain by this river, thought Siddhartha. It is the same river which I crossed on my way to the town." (101) "May my present path, my new life, start from there! He looked lovingly into the flowing water," (101) "How he loved this river, how it enchanted him, how grateful he was to it! In his heart he heard the newly awakened voice speak, and it said to him: "Love this river, stay by it, learn from it." (101) Like I mentioned above. The river symbolizes life and enlightenment. I can imagine Siddhartha saying this river shows me "my new life". "How he loved this river." His "newly awakened voice" told him," " stay by the river, it is your friend, this wise being will guide you and teach you" I think Siddhartha sees the river as a teacher or mentor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWwfXcn53ss

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