Based on our large group discussion last week and "instant paper" activity this week, please choose a topic or idea from Siddhartha that especially interests you and respond to the prompt below. I would recommend something that generated a lot of thought or discussion from the large group talks.
Please write a thematic analysis paragraph containing at least two PIEs (which means 2 quotes, 1 quote per PIE) as supporting argumentation. Your paragraphs must be done by midnight tonight, and they will be used as discussion-starting material on Friday. In addition, you have the option to use this blog as a draft or model for your final test essay on Siddhartha.
I will grade and comment on blogs ASAP, including an approximate grade if this paragraph were submitted as a body paragraph in a final essay.
Please respond to the following prompt: compare and contrast how Siddhartha's interactions with one of the other characters in the story reflects a belief that you hold about life/spirituality. Explain, using quotes from the book and examples from your own life.
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3rd Hour Quote -> Paper Activity
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To make individual paragraphs - connect quotes in more specific ideas to form paragraphs
In the book when Siddhartha is parting ways with Govinda, the author is showing us that you must follow your own path. P - During this part of the book, Govinda and Siddhartha are with the Samanas, and Siddhartha feels like he has learned everything he can and must go on and obtain more knowledge on his own. I - He tells Govinda, “Soon Govinda your friend will leave the path of the Samana along which he has traveled with you for so long. I suffer thirst, Govinda, and on this long Samana path my thirst has not grown less” (18). E- Govinda is satisfied with his path, but Siddhartha is not, so that is why he is leaving. P - Later on, Govinda and Siddhartha have found different paths, and they plan to part ways. I - Siddhartha says to Govinda, “Often I have thought, will Govinda ever take a step without me from his own conviction. Now you are a man and you have chosen your own path” (30). E - Sometimes you have to leave people behind to continue your own destiny. In order to find your own path, you have to leave your friends.
Govinda stays and Siddhartha goes.
It is important to choose your own path.
Path
“He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was beautiful, strange, and mysterious” (39).
Following his own path makes it seems as if Siddhartha sees the world for the first time.
Path
“He rose, said farewell to the mango tree and the pleasure garden” (84)
Mango & pleasure garden
On your path, you have to let go of things and continue to where you want to go.
Path
“You have learned nothing through teaching, so I think oh illustrious one that no one finds Salvation through teaching” (33)
You followed your own path, so I should follow mine as well.
Path
“That was how everybody loved Siddhartha. He delighted and made everybody happy, but Siddhartha himself was not happy” (5).
being loved does not bring happiness.
Govinda – choosing own path
Siddhartha - not being happy
Enlightenment – obtaining Nirvana
He whose reflective pure spirit sinks him to Atman knows bliss inexpressibly through words (19).
He robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value. He has robbed me of my friend who had believed in me, and now believes in him. He was my shadow and now Gotama’s shadow” (36)
This shows that he was a good friend with Govinda, but he knows that the Gotama has given him more than Govinda was giving him – the knowledge that he has to teach himself.
Reaching enlightenment is beyond anything words can describe.
Or
Once you get to nirvana it’s an indescribable feelings.
The theme of this book is that people should be dedicated to a goal.
ReplyDeleteSiddhartha remains dedicated to the goal of finding his self throughout the book: when he is with the Samanas, talking to Gotama, and staying with the ferryman.
The Samana’s help, but do not sufficiently succeed in fulfilling Siddhartha’s goal of finding himself. The Samanas have a different interpretation of finding yourself, and Siddhartha decides it’s not right for him. He tells Govinda, “I have no desire to walk on water, said Siddhartha. Let the Old Samanas satisfy themselves with such arts.” This quote actually shows why Siddhartha is leaving the Samanas because he feels that this is not helping to find his self. He needs to go out and experience different things.
Silently Siddhartha stood in the fierce sun’s rays, filled with pain and thirst and stood until he no longer felt pain and thirst.
Quote – (I)llustratation
Tie it back in to your main idea (thesis) – E(xplanation)
Talks to the illustrious one.
Stays with the ferryman.
Standing scene… “I will die.”
On the one hand, Siddhartha should stay at home with his parents because they have more life experience, but on the other hand if it’s worth dying for, it’s probably the right path.
“Siddhartha stood there unmoving with his arms folded.”
“Then the father realized that Siddhartha could no longer remain at home, that he had already left him.”
“With your permission father, I…”
Hypnotizing the Samana
Staying with Vasudeva – likes the lifestyle by the river. “Siddhartha stayed with the ferryman and learned how to look after the boat.”
“That is why I am going on my way, not to seek a another and better teacher, for I know there is none, but to leave all teachers and to reach my goal alone or die (34)
Talking to Gotama
It is important to be dedicated to a goal.
“one must find the source within one’s own self, one must possess it.”
When he’s gambling
“You know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness” (35).
Don’t think that you are smarter than you actually are.
“But you will see that [waiting, fasting, and thinking] are very useful Kamala”
Different people are impacted in different ways based on what they believe in.
“But there is no one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; the secret of what the illustrious one himself experienced.”
You do not always need a teacher to reach your goal.
“Do not scold, my dear friend. Nothing is ever achieved by scolding.”
Everybody has their own way of doing things. Punishing them for doing things their way is wrong, because it will achieve the same thing.
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
The way of the Samanas is better. You can force things or wait and let them come to you.
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