Throughout the book Siddhartha was always asking some questions form himself about what he is doing on earth and what's the purpose of it. At the beginning of the story Siddhartha was a young boy who leave home in order to convert into a Samana. His friend Govinda followed him. Siddhartha had a glorious time learning with the Samana new things. He learned to "hold his breath and quite his heartbeat" (Hesse, 14). But, there was something that didn’t satisfy to Siddhartha so we wanted to continue his way and turn to be part of Gotama. The same things happen when Siddhartha was with Gotama so he leaves and this time his friend Govinda stayed. Siddhartha continued with the thirstiness to know more about the world so he met Kamala, a beautiful woman that taught Siddhartha the art of love and luxury. Kamala to his lover presented a merchant called Kamaswami. He was rich and had a big house with merchants. Kamaswami told Siddhartha what he heard about him " that he was a Brahmin, a learned man, but he seek service with a merchant" (Hesse, 63). So Siddhartha worked and with time he was rich and full of joy, he give money and advice to needed people and everyone loved him. But suddenly he disappears from his live and wants to live with the ferryman who was neither rich nor poor. Vasudeva the ferryman taught many things to Siddhartha about the river and how to listen to it. Siddhartha was pleased with all even though he missed the pleasures he had when we was rich.
In the beginning of the book Siddhartha the main character was a very religious person that enjoyed the simple life, but suddenly when he had the privilege of working and winning money he changes totally in his behavior and manners. He gives al types of pleasures and his life was surrounded of all kind of things he could ever imagine so he suffered a real change in the book.
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