Siddartha and Modern teens.

In Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, the title character’s journey through life is similar to the life that many teenagers today face. Siddhartha’s story chronicles his childhood to his old age, yet many times throughout there are parallels between his life and a teenager’s. It begins with his questioning of authority and the explanations of life as he knows it. He does not wholly trust his elders’ words on how the world was created and humans’ purpose on earth: “And where was Atman to be found, where did He dwell, where did His eternal heart beat, if not within the Self, in the innermost, in the eternal which each person carried within him? But where was this self, in the innermos...