AP PREP SIDDHARTHA

What is the importance of Siddhartha's name?
 http://docsfiles.com/pdf_siddhartha_study_questions_part_one.html

What purpose does self-denial play in Siddhartha? Self-indulgence?
http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html

Look at the reasons for Siddhartha's discontentment. How do other religions answer these questions?http://mrsvernonsapclass.blogspot.com/2011/09/siddhartha.html

Briefly describe Siddhartha.
http://www.studymode.com/essays/Siddhartha-Reading-Questions-641015.html

How is the "rebirth" presented in Siddhartha?
http://www.enotes.com/siddhartha/q-and-a/how-rebirth-represented-story-different-from-377988

Questions 1, 4, and 5 cannot be answered by the passage but with a little thorough reading and a better understanding of Siddhartha and the Buddhist religion, you could easily answer all of these questions.

2. Siddhartha is denying himself two main things that people have a very tough time denying themselves. He first denied himself regret, by not going back to his hometown he can not regret the decisions he made in the past and is now ready to make a journey forward. Secondly, he denied himself comfort, there is nothing more comfortable than resting on the past and living there, to deny your former self is to allow your new self to grow and that is amazing.

3. Siddhartha is discontent because he knows that he can no longer keep being this illusion of a man and needs to start growing up and become the man he is really supposed  to be. All religions (and cultures for that matter) have these ideas of manhood, that there is a threshold that must be crossed to obtain oneness whether circumcision, baptism, or attending the mosque for the first time.