Siddhartha Reading Blog #2

I am going to make a connection from this section of the book to the children's animated movie Aladin. In this section Siddartha goes to a prostitute named Kamala, and she says to him that if he wanted to be her lover he had to have fine clothes, shoes, and money. So he starts working with a merchant named Kamaswami to gain all those things. When he gains these he goes to the prostitute and learns the art of love from her. She then says to him that he is the best lover that she has ever had.

Aladdin is the story of Hindu beggar that used to rob on the streets for food, and one day he sees Jasmin the Sultans daughter. But he knew that she was only allowed to marry a prince or someone rich so when he falls in a pit with a genie he wishes to be a prince. Then he makes Jasmin fall in love with him.

But the connection to Aladdin and Siddharha is that both see a beautiful woman, then they fall in love and try to do anything to get them. Like Aladdin that was a poor beggar that falls in love with the princess. Then one day when he finds a genie lamp he wishes to become a prince and be wealthy just to make Jasmin (the princess) fall in love, and Siddhartha goes to a merchant and becomes one of the richest men in town and after giving gifts to Kamala he becomes her lover.

But even though in both the man did everything he could to gain the woman there is a big difference in this love story.This difference is that In Aladdin he falls in love with Jasmin, but in Siddhartha he doesn't fall in love he just wanted to learn the art of love.