Janet Nape
Mrs. Goss
World Lit-1
5 November 2010
 He
is a Hindu in the beginning of the story
who becomes unhappy with his lifestyle at
home.
 His father is a Brahmin or priest and his
father wants him to be a priest like him.
However Siddhartha wants to know who he is
and attain more knowledge.
 Siddhartha received his call to
adventure within himself.
 Siddhartha
has his best friend Govinda.
 Govinda admires Siddhartha and respects
him.
 He is Siddhartha’s shadow in the beginning of
the story
 He goes with Siddhartha to live with the
Samanas and they begin their hero’s journey.
As they live with the Samanas, they had to let go
of all their desires and start to fast.
 This is where they Cross the First threshold
because they are living in an unknown world.
 They stay with the Samanas for six years.
 When Siddhartha decides to leave Govinda goes
as well.
 They learned to fast and beg for food
while living with the Samanas.
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Peace
When they were living with the Samanas and had to go begging for
food in a small town
 One day when Govinda went to a small town to beg for food he
heard people talking about going to see “the Enlightened one”. So
when he returned to the Samanas he told Siddhartha that he would
like to see Gotama who has already attained Nirvana and be one of
this followers. Siddhartha unsupportley agrees to go with Govinda,
but he is happy because they will be leaving the Samanas.
* As they go to see Gotama, they both realize how peaceful looking
he is. Govinda decides to stay and follow the Buddha's path.
However Siddhartha does not stay but he does respect the Buddha.
As Siddhartha was talking with the Buddha before his departure, he
found a flaw in the Buddha teachings. The flaw is that no one an
teach you how to attain Nirvana but that Nirvana is found within
one. Though Siddhartha found a flaw in the Buddha, the Buddha
serves as a mentor to Siddhartha because he helped Siddhartha
understand things he did not know about.
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As Siddhartha realizes that he is all alone since
Govinda stayed with the Buddha, he travels to a
town. In the town he sees the beautiful Kamala.
Kamala is known for teaching men how to love and
that is why Siddhartha goes and seeks her services.
Kamala tells Siddhartha that he needs to have money
in order to get her services. Siddhartha say that is
easy for him to attain.
She tells Siddhartha about a merchant that he could
work for. The merchant man is named Kamaswami. At
first as Siddhartha works for the man, he does not
take the business seriously but as a game.
 Since
Siddhartha has money, he receives
Kamala's services and learns the art of love.
However he does not really love Kamala. As
he spends time in the town he is off track on
his journey to attain Nirvana. Kamala is the
women of temptress because she takes
Siddhartha of his journey path.
 As
Siddhartha and is still in the town he
becomes mean and fat. He starts to drink a
lot and becomes caught up with money.
Siddhartha continues the horrible on going
cycle for a long time. Siddhartha is in the
belly of the whale because he is at his most
darkest moment
 However when he goes and sits under a
mongo tree he realizes how nauseating the
cycle was and decides to separate from it.
He has let his old self die at this moment and
has been spiritually been reborn again.
 As
Siddhartha goes by a river,
he sees a ferry man named Vasudeva.
 He decides that he will become a ferry
man as well. One trait that Siddhartha
admires about the ferry man is that the
ferry man is a good listener.
 Kamala now old and with her son ,Siddhartha
Jr., goes on a journey to see the Buddha who
is dying.
 When
Kamala and her son go on the journey,
Kamala is bitten by a snake. Vasudeva
happens to be near by and hears her screams
of pain.
 He takes her and her son into
his home where Siddhartha
finally sees her and his son.
 Kamala dies and leaves her
son with Siddhartha
 Siddhartha’s
son is mean and distrustful to
his father. Siddhartha loves his son either
way.
 His son leaves him and the ferry man and
goes to live in a town.
 Siddhartha goes in search for his son but
Vasudeva tells his to stop his search.
 As they return to their home,
Siddhartha has a wound. His
wound is not having is son.
 Vasudeva
tells Siddhartha that he should go
and listen to the river. They both go to listen
to the river. As Siddhartha listens to the river,
he hears many voices but then realizes that
all those voices are in unity called “Om”. At
that moment Siddhartha has attained his goal
of self knowledge and peace.
 Since Vasudeva now knows
that Siddhartha has attained
his goal, he goes into the woods
to die.
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Since vasudeva is gone he is left by himself at home.
However Govinda goes to the river in search of the ferry
man who has attained Nirvana. He does not know that the
ferry man is his friend Siddhartha.
As Govinda talks to the ferry man he realizes that the ferry
man is his friend and that his friend has attained peace
within one’s self.
Siddhartha tells Govinda to kiss him on the forehead. As
Govinda did this he attained his goal of peacefulness too.
 Since
Siddhartha has completed his hero’s
journey, he is now the masters of two
worlds. The earthly world and the spiritual
world.
 In
the story Kamala has a bird in a golden
cage. The gold cage represents money and
wealth. While the bird represents
Siddhartha. When the bird is in the cage that
means that Siddhartha is trapped in
materialistic items.
 However when Kamala lets the bird
fly free, that means that Siddhartha
is free from his bad cycle.
The
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