In the beginning of your life, you grow up in a community of people who love and care about you. Once you reach a certain part of your life, such as growing up, you feel that you must leave the community in which you grew up in and make a new life in the world. In this novel, Siddhartha feels the same way and he leaves his community. Even though he uses most of his …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…and absorbs everything and he keeps silent about it. Siddhartha learns the unity of life through him because he is so attuned to the world around him and to the world inside him. It is convenient to say that these acts of symbolism not only affect the theme but they make the theme. If it was not for the river and Vasudeva, Siddhartha would have taken his life or he would have lived in misery.