Reaction Paper About Siddhartha

Siddhartha walked through the forest. He had the feeling that they could never go back to his hometown. Internally, he totally died inside. He was feeling embarrassed and very depressed. At last, he reached a river. It was very dangerous and full of snakes but it was looked like his destination, as he could only face death after that destination. He wanted to suicide. According to him, he had left with nothing. He wanted to jump into the river. After some time, he slept when he woke up, he saw a man present there. He realized that man was Govinda. Govinda could not recognize him and stayed with Siddhartha because he wanted to save him from that dangerous area but he did not want to wake him up. Siddhartha thanked him and asked him about his
At last, he found a ferryman in very fine dress that showed his kind behavior to him. He told him that he was on the right way. Man who could feel the water of the river must know many of other things too. He knew that continuous movement of water of the river was one of the secrets of the river. Siddhartha could not understand that, but he had strong faith that that might be very special. The ferryman agreed to took Siddhartha in his boat across the river. Siddhartha wanted to exchange his clothes with ferryman. He also asked if he could be assistant of ferryman and he wanted to know how to row a boat. Now, ferryman recognized him as the Samana and introduced himself as Vasudeva .He told him that how he changed to a finely dressed man and offered him to stay in a hut with him and took him with him. Siddhartha focused on the way how ferryman was doing his job. When they reached their hut ferryman gave him something to eat and then he began his whole story. Ferryman listened to his story keenly and asked him to stay with him and offered him to sleep on the place where his late wife slept. Siddhartha accepted and they discussed about the river and then slept. Many times Siddhartha used to discuss about the river with the ferryman and also pleased to share it .They were both very happy while discussing that knowledge. As the time passed, Siddhartha became more and more like ferryman, joyful and smiling. Many times they used to listen to the river and that seemed to them as river was also speaking to them. Many years passed and time came when Siddhartha and ferryman saw many monks and pilgrims who told them that Gautama was going to die and they were going to see him but Siddhartha did not believe in separation and he knew that he was connected to everything. Kamala was also going to see Gautama along with the son of Siddhartha .Son demanded to stay for rest. When they stopped and