Metamorphoses Script

Why does Erysichthon cut down the tree?

Because he needed the wood, and didn’t believe that anything was sacred.

Define piety. 

Piety is being merciful, or a religious devotion.

How does this term relate to Erysichthon?

Well we could say that Erysichton isn´t piety because he doesn’t do sacrifices or believe in anything holy.
What connections can be made between this scene and this children's story?

What I believe to be the main connection is that the boy and Erysichthon only looked for the usefulness of things and not for the meaning or the love. Like Erisichthon sold his mother, and the boy cut down the tree.
Relate the events in this scene to a specific passage in Siddhartha.

Pg.63 “The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish-acquisitiveness” Siddhartha was similar to Erisichton because both wanted resources and acquisitiveness. Both ended on the wrong path.