Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

Siddhartha lived in ancient India where him and his best friend Govinda live. Siddhartha is the “famous” person of his community where men wanted to be like him and woman wanted to be with him. Although he was a huge role model of many people, he still wanted improvement upon himself. He seeks enlightenment, otherwise known as peace, for he feels he has learned all he can from his teachers. In times like this, meditation is the only solution. Siddhartha and Govinda sit and meditate. Siddhartha is thinking about a group of samans that once came to his town, He tells his father he wants to be one and his father gets upset and leaves the room. Standing there how his father left him, his father came back the next morning and saw him still in the

Siddhartha gives away his clothes, begins fasting, and eats only once a day. Siddhartha sought to empty himself in order to come hand-in-hand with the world around him. He stood in the sun without water, stood in the rain without an umbrella, stood in a bush, he stands until he loses feeling. The denial of the Samanas isn’t enough to enlighten him. Siddhartha asks Govinda if they are making any progress, and Govinda says they’re making lots of progress. Siddhartha doesn’t think so. If the point was to lose himself, he could just lose himself in prostitutes and drinking. He tells Govinda that he will leave the Samanas.Govinda wants to stay there, where he feels he has learned a lot and is accepted. He urges Siddhartha to stay, but he

He turns into a woman and begins to nurse him, The next morning the ferry man takes him across the river, he tells him about learning from the river, “the most beautiful river ever” as he says. As he approaches the town, everyone stays away from him until he reaches a stream where he meets a young woman washing clothes. They flirt and she invited him to intercourse but he had gotten cold feet because he has never done such a thing. He meets a woman named Kamala, he bathes, shaves, and oils his hair in order to impress her. She asks him to get a job, money, and presents for her then to try to talk to her again. He asks where to get those things, then comes up with a poem, which she absolutely loved and offers one kiss. He takes it but ends up wanting more. She then set up a job for him with a wealthy