blog #14

Book Title: Siddhartha
Pages Since Last Week: 712
Pages Since Semester: 762
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha has been searching a lot and finds himself dissatisfied with whichever group he runs into. He then realizes something about peripheral vision and reality.
Weekly Thoughts: "Allegory of the Cave" is about how being surrounded by such medias like television and the radio, makes your vision becomes distorted and not exactly real. Siddhartha was much like this too. When he was surrounded by all of the Samanas, he did not understand much, but gained clarity through observations of nature and the world. About last year, when my English class had an in class essay prompt to write about, if newspapers are really realiable, I, at first did not understand. I wanted to say yes, becasue the newspaper and news through television would be where I would comprehend as facts. It is until reading "Allegory of the Cave," that I see that just because a story is on the news, it does not mean that it is truthful. Every person has his or her own interpretation of something. You cannot take another persons word for anything, because it would only be that persons truth, for he has experienced it himself. There is nothing that can be fully comprehensive without experience.