There had been many different books by numerous authors that have
             impacted the way one looks at life. The book Siddharta is one of these. This book shows
             Heese's fascination with eastern religions, legends, and fairytales. It is about an Indian
             prince name Siddharta who goes on a quest to find who he really is. In his quest, he
             encounters many different pleasures and pains, each having an affect on him and the way
             he thinks. As he grows up, he continues to learn different things and experience different
             events. He finds out that he is exactly what he is hiding from and then discovers his true
             self. The book Siddharta was started 1919 and was finished in 1922 in Switzerland.
             World War I influenced Hermann Heese to write Siddharta. Heese was born in 1877 in a
             small town of Cawl, Germany. He was the son of misssionaries and had a wide amount of
             exposure to different religions, especially Indian religions. He disliked the tough beliefs
             of his parents, and seeked for the answer to the real meaning of life. And that is how
             Siddharta came upon, which has been called his best and most famous book. Few people
             had negative criticisms to offer this book. Some of this criticisms were that the book is
             historically inaccurate and that it is boring and uninteresting to those who has no interest
             in religion. Although there were also many positive criticisms. People have said that
             Heese use great structure, and that the book opened up the western world to the eastern
             world. Also the book uses great symbolism. According to the Merriam Webster
             Dictionary, symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or
             significance to objects, events, or relationships. Although this is suppose to be about
             the east, there are some western attitude and ideas in this book. Therefore, Siddharta is
             an eastern but also a western book.
             Siddharta takes place around the fifth century B.C. in India...