Chapter 7 (75-85)

 Samsara
 Chapter 7 (pages 75-85)

samsara means: ______________________________

1. Why did people like Siddhartha?

2. What had he learned from his father, the Brahmins, and the Samanas, that remained with Siddhartha?

3. What are the new things he learned?

4. Why does he envy people's childishness?

5. Interprete Siddhartha's dreams.

6. Why is he so filled with misery? (81)

7. Why does he release Kamala's songbird?

8. Why is he dissatisfied with his power and wealth?

9. What does he realize about his relationship with Kamala?

   

Chapter 6 (63-73)

 Amongst The People

 Chapter 6 (pages 63-73)

 >How do Kamala and
    Kamaswami influence
    and change Siddhartha?

 1. Describe the first conversation
     Siddhartha has with Kamaswamni. (p.63-
     65) 

 2. How does Siddhartha convince

     Kamaswami to hire him?

 3. Why do or don’t you think

     Kamaswami should follow the

     advice given to him by his friend

     about his business?

4. Why did Siddhartha’s sympathies

     not  lie with the business. Where

     did they lie and why?    

5. How does Siddhartha's relationship

     with Kamala develop and why

     do they regard one another as

     being similar?

Chapter 5 (pages 45-61)

 Kamala
    1. Why do or don’t you agree with what the

    ferryman says can be learned from the river? (p.49)

2. Why do you think Siddhartha says, “All whom I meet on the way are like Govinda?”
*3. What do you think Siddhartha's dream is
    telling him?  page_____?

4. Why do you think Siddhartha does not act on his impulses and what does he does do instead? (p.50)

5. How does  Siddhartha go about changing his appearance? page(s)_____?

6. Why does he do this?

7. How are dream and reality mixed in this chapter? (p.50)

8. What advice doe Siddhartha ask Kamala for, and why does he ask for it? page_____?

9. Why is the poem Siddhartha compose of such importance? (p.56)

10. Why  is Siddhartha compared to a child? (p.57)

11.Why does Siddhartha feel he is a Samana no longer?page____?

12. Why is Kamaswami of importance to Siddhartha, and how is advised to act toward him?  page____?

13.What surprises Kamala about Siddhartha’s transformation? page____?

14.Why does Siddhartha think he is so successful?

15.Why does Kamala think Siddhartha is so successful?page_____?

Chapter 4

pages 37-42

 The Awakening

1. What will Siddhartha no longer do?

2.Why does Siddhartha start walking towards his parents home?

3. Why does he change directons?

4. Why does Siddhartha not know anything about himself?

SIDDHARTHA Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Chapter 1

 The Brahmin's Son

Vocabulary:   Brahmin 

                     Atman

                     insatiable

                     ablutions

                     Upanishads 

                     Rig Veda 
>Why does Siddhartha no longer want to be a Brahmin?
1. Why is Siddhartha dissatisfied?

2. Why does Siddhartha want to join the Samanas?

3. How does he obtain his fathers permission to do so?

4. Why does Govinda want to go with Siddhartha?

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Chapter 2  (pages 13-24)  

 With the Samanas   

>What are the characteristics of a Samana’s behavior and outlook on life?

1.   How does Siddhartha’s new life as a Samana differ   from his existence as a Brahmin in Chapter One?

2.   What does Siddhartha learn from the Samanas?

3.   What does Siddhartha hope to achieve by being among the Samanas? 

4.   Why do the Samanas deny themselves?

5.   Why is Siddhartha afraid he and Govinda may be going in circles?

6.   Where does Govinda, his friend, want Siddhartha to go with him? Why?

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Chapter 3 (pages 25-36) 

 Gotama

> Why does Siddhartha not accept the teachings of Gotama Buddha?

1. How did Siddhartha recognize and find Gotama Buddha? 
2. How is Govinda affected by hearing Gotama’s teachings?

3. Why do Gotama and his followers wear yellow garments?

4. Why does Siddhartha seek out Gotama to speak with him?

5. What does Siddhartha learn from his conversation with Gotama?

ELLEN FOSTER TEST

1. How does the time Ellen spends working on her grandmother's field with black workers alter (change) her view on racism? Why does she say she could pass for a "colored person?"
2. Why does Ellen admire Mavis's and Starletta's families? What about them does she admire?
3. How does Ellen's friendship with Starletta change over the course of the two years the novel takes place? How is this shown?
4. How does Ellen reveal she is wise beyond her age? How does she change and mature as a person throughout the course of the novel?
5. Why is Ellen so glad that she does not believe in Santa Claus? How does this act as an indicator of her maturity? How and why is this sad?
6. Why is Ellen's Grandmother so cruel to her? How does this make Ellen question herself? What prompts her to accuse Ellen of killing her mother?
7.Why does Ellen blame herself for her mother's death? What reason does she give for not wanting her grandmother to die?
8. How is Ellen affected by her relationship with her grandmother? How does her stay there change Ellen, and what does it reveal about her character?