The Little Prince, Siddhartha, And The Monkey God: Journey
Have you ever realize that there is something incomplete in your
life, both on the outside and from within? Whatever that may be, you have
something in common with the main character from each of these works: The
Little Prince, Siddhartha, and The Monkey God. All three works are about
someone sensing something is missing and thus sets forth on a "journey" to
fill in that hole. The Little Prince, from The Little Prince, sets on a
journey to find out how to love and what he learned was more than love, it
was the aspect behind taming. Siddhartha, from Siddhartha, left his life
filled with riches and pleasure to seek nirvana and riddance of the "Self."
And finally the half human, half ...
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on Asteriod-612, he left to travel far and wide to seek the meaning of
love. Having the opportunity to meet many people, he learns something from
each and one of them. The king represented the evil of totalitarianism,
the conceited man represents one of the evil aspects of human, the tippler
showed the sorrow and pain a person can hold, the businessman showed how a
person can possess greed, the lamplighter represents loyalty, one of the
good sides of human being, finally meeting the geographer, the Little
Prince learns curiosity and hard work. But meeting all these people still
haven't gave the Little Prince what he wanted yet. He finally trampled
upon Earth, where he will soon find what he is looking for. The first
person he met on Earth was the snake, a symbol of evil and deceit. But the
Little Prince was not alone as he also finds the narrator who will be his
friend. Encountering the fox, the Little Prince was given what he was
yearning for. The importance of taming, which ...
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Buddha, the almighty himself. But yet he was unsuccessful in
feeling complete and thus sets forth again, now alone without Govinda.
Siddhartha's goals were not threatened by enemies or physical danger, but
by the evils of human beings. Thinking he had approached the quest a wrong
way, Siddhartha soon found himself trapped by greed, lies, and riches.
These evils took a part of Siddhartha's life and before Siddhartha could
escape its wrath, he learned the pleasure of love from the bearer of his
child, Kamala. Loosing Govinda, Siddhartha met not only a friend, but also
a teacher, the ferryman named Vesadeva. The simplicity of his life
interested Siddhartha which brought him to live by ...
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