AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

Siddhartha Questions
1. What roll does the natural world (sun, sky, trees, water) play in Siddhartha’s journey?  What is Siddhartha’s relationship to nature?

2. Do you think you must venture out on your own in order to fully develop your identity or can you do it within the construct of your upbringing?

3.  Siddhartha searches for that one important thing, the only important thing throughout the novel.  What do you think is the most important thing in the world? 

4.  While Siddhartha’s journey is uniquely his own, it is also everyone’s journey.  What connections to Siddhartha’s journey toward shaping and understanding his identity can you see within your own?

 

Essay Question: How does the discovery process (journey) of Siddhartha compare/ contrast  with the discovery or discussions about identity in other texts we have worked on in the unit so far? 

These questions were from an online document so I was only able to get some of the website link.

https://myportal.bsd405.org/personal/fostern/AP/Lists/Calendar%20Banner/Attachments/50/G12_U3_A10_SP%20Socratic%20Seminar%20Questions.doc

 

Responses

1. The natural world is included in the passage but seems to stand in the way more than create opportunities. I think through been in the outdoors Siddhartha was able to find himself, who he was and wasn't. For what  we know right now, it is hard to know exactly what it means for the story or
Siddhartha, I think we need more context. Maybe a chapter or tow that is around where our section is from would be helpful.

2. I think finding out who you are is up to you. Yes venturing out you can find out things about yourself, but if that isn't really you and staying in your shell and following your family is what you want to do then that is also up to you. If Siddhartha had followed his family then he wouldn't have found out this new person that has bloomed. He is a good role model for people who want to go places and see things and try something new.

3.I would say the most important this in the world is love or kindness. These things can be so powerful and that is part of my masterpiece. through everything those can bring a brightest that other things can't eve  when lacking some things like food or water or anything. A little love and kindness can stretch you another day,  whether surviving as a homeless person or living in a day to day drone that you feel is more hurtful than helpful.

4. Well Siddhartha and I are pretty much the opposite, and if we do have any similarities it would probably be my transition to college that I would do things he also did. I haven't had many opportunities to try to be someone else or seek something out of like that I haven't felt or known before. One thing I was thinking of recently was confidence and how I should try being more confident in myself, but that hasn't happened yet, maybe sometime in  the future.

5. I would need to know some more books before comparing books. I haven't read very many self discovery books probably because I am not very interested in them. To know more and be able to compare books I would need to find some and read them before I could compare them for this question.

 

Comparing and contrasting is an important thing for essays in the AP test.