Keith Urban says, “You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life” (qtd in brainyquote). This quote is saying that with each experience in your life you learn something and use it to become a better version of yourself. This quote relates to what the main character of Siddharta, by Hermann Hesse had to do to reach enlightenment. Throughout the story Siddartha, the main theme is repeated many times in many different lessons. For example, Siddhartha risks his life to get permission to become a Samana while being a Samana Siddhartha tortures himself to try and find enlightenment, and Siddhartha gets his heart broken by someone very significant to him. All of these pieces of the story are ways that Siddartha fulfilled his journey with enlightenment. In Siddhartha, the central theme is to find spiritual knowledge, and one must go through experiences in the flesh. Siddhartha endures self-inflicted pain to express to his father how serious he is about reaching enlightenment. When Siddhartha tells his father that he wants to leave his father ignores him until he …show more content…
In this chapter, it was clear that Siddartha went through a large amount of emotional pain. The author of the story writes, he felt the deep love in his heart for the runaway, it was like a wound; and he also felt that the wound was not for wallowing, that it must become a blossom and shine” (Hesse 111). This quote shows how effected Siddartha truly was after his son left him. Siddartha felt as if he had a wound after his sons' departure because that is how much pain he was going through at the time. Although this was a very rough time for Siddartha, he did learn that he could hold love for people. For Siddhartha, the withdrawal of his son was enough to make him find the knowledge that he had been looking for over many years, which was how to