Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Honors 9- Notes
- He doesn’t achieve enlightenment from the samanans
- Sid doesn’t believe in following, Gov does
- Any time Sid goes through a change, Gov is there
- This is a didactic allegory
What is the point of view of the story?
- Third person single person POV
Why does Hesse have the POV switch in the last chapter of the book?
Hesse has been steeped in eastern philosophies; he sees a lot of truth in them
Buddha serves as a foil for Sid and his theme
- He comes back to the river at the end of the book, A comes back to A
The ascetics are symbolic of his lack of enlightenment
Sid wants to find peace and the true nature of the world:
- He thinks he can find the truth in the world by understanding himself
o If he understands atman then he understands the brahma
o The Buddha tells him that (pg. 27)
• You can not learn things vicariously, you have to experience this first hand
o The connection of suffering and pain
o Sid leaves again but leaves Gov behind
- Truly nothing has occupied my mind as much of the self- a synthesis of the east west philosophy paradox: I am one with the world yet I am separated
- Pg 31,”I am one and separated…” paradoxical
- Pg 33, realized how alone he was; alienation.
- Pg 39, introduced to the voice. He must teach himself and gain the experience
- Voice is symbolic of authenticity, his genuine self
- Pg 57 crosses the river
- Pg. 59 Why is Kamala in the book? Maybe I am like you, we can no love, ordinary people can why does Hesse do this?
- Pg. 62, he and kamala can not love
- Pg. 63, Sid loses his voice in the samsara
- Pg. 64, the dice game is symbolic of samsara
- Pg. 64 the dream reminds him of his inner voice
- Pg. 64, Sid remembers his mortality
o The real Buddha was raised like a prince, he saw that there was age and he saw that there was death for the first time
o When Sid, sees Kamala getting old
o He has the dream of her song bird dying
- Pg. 67 How long has it been since he had heard his voice?
- Pg. 68 Sid leaves the village, because he has grown so sick, he has realized that the voice is dead. You can not find something unless its lost
- Why does Hesse have Kamala become pregnant?
o On pg. 71 he reaches the river again, he wants to make an end of his life. This is his abyss
o This is the climax
- Pg. 73. When goes through this change he sees Gov
- Pg. 76 What are you now Sid? Sid says I do not know
- Pg. 76 During his sleep he loves everything, sleep was permeated with OM, he loved everything
- Pg. 78 he has to unlearn to learn
- Pg. 80 you have to be experiencing to learn, he can not learn extrinsically
o The Buddha’s wisdom is not transferable
- Pg. 82 He heard the voice speak to him and tell him to love the river
- Pg. 86 and 87 The river has taught me to listen
o The river teaches him that there is no such thing as time
o TIMELESSNESS Look up Heraclites
- Pg. 88 The voices of all living creatures are in his voice, and the word he pronounces is om
- Pg. 91 Kamala dies from a snake bite
- Pg. 99 He learns to love his son from sorrow
- Pg., 100 He had to experience it to learn, you have to end things or you will be caught in samsara
- Pg. 107
- Pg. 108 He still rebelled against his fate
o His fate is symbolic of our fate
o Can he accept his fate? All parts of our fate?
- Pg. 109 He hears the many voices of the river
o The rivers voice was sorrowful, the voice was suffering
- Pg. 110, 111 when he heard them all, the whole, the unity then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word. Om
- He finds nirvana, he is one with everything
Why does he have govinda in the novel?
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