Mark Neumann - Eleventh Post

I agree with Zakaria I think that Siddhartha definitely was similar to Freedom at Midnight. I don't know if I enjoyed Siddhartha that much though since there wasn't really anything exciting happening in the story it was mainly just a story about a holy man trying to find enlightenment and wisdom and how the way he finds it is different from the way his friend or others find it which I guess is a lesson you could get from this story. On the other hand Slaughter House Five was completely random in that first it starts of talking about WWII then goes to some random alien planet and then goes back to the war and this happens throughout the book, if it didn't keep doing those random changes of the story I think I would enjoy it a little more, but it was a bit confusing so I didn't like it too much.

Mark Neumann - Tenth Post

There weren't really any similarities between the two books I read Siddhartha and Slaughter House Five since one was about a holy man trying to find his way to enlightenment while the other was sort of a story of what happens to people after terrifying wars like WWII and how people start acting strange. Siddhartha seemed like a book about Gandhi's life would be like except Gandhi didn't start out as a holy man instead he started out as a lawyer. The two books seem pretty different and I don't think I see any similarity between them. Slaughter House Five has some similarity to When Broken Glass Floats when it talks about how the corpses have to be burnt and everything in that way I can see it similar, but it's hard to say since Slaughter House Five is more of a non realistic story.

Mark Neumann - Ninth Post

I agree with Zakaria that Siddhartha was a more realistic story than Slaughter House Five and I think that is why I would choose Siddhartha over Slaughter House Five. I think that Siddhartha can be related to Freedom at Midnight especially when the book talks about Gandhi's daily life it seems similar to Siddhartha's life in that he is trying to find peace within himself while Gandhi is trying to help find peace between the Muslims and the Hindus.

Zakaria's 12th post

In this final post I would like to talk about how both of the books were written and what I think their themes are. In Siddhartha, the 

Zakaria's 11th Post

Both of these books are very different but I think that there might be some similarities. For example, both of the books take place on earth (kind of) and they both have main characters but the things that go on in the books are different. In one of them Siddhartha is trying to become the best religious person that he can become and the travels throughout the book to become better. I think that that book was more relatable and more reasonable. And I also thought that they both have a philosophy and that they both have a reason to be written. Now that I think of it I think that Slaughter House Five was a good book because of all the random things that happened. It made it funny in a way. But I also think that there was nothing funny in the book Siddhartha. Siddhartha was more spiritual and I think that it could connect to Freedom at Midnight because of the his spiritual journey. The people in Freedom at Midnight had almost the same religion as him and were trying to find their own Nirvana. What do you think Mark?

Zakaria's 10th Post

I think that the themes of both of the books that we have read are very different. One book is about the quest to find Nirvana so he can become a better person and the point that people can find their own Nirvana in their own ways. The other theme was that war affects people even after it has ended. These books could be connected to Him’s book because she has the religion that is a big part of her life like it is for Siddhartha and also it is connected to the fighting that is happening in the other book that we are reading. I also think that the other book that we read can be connected to the book we are about to read in class. The book The Things we Carried is about PTSD and wars and the book Slaughter House Five is about war the and the effects of it. 

Zakaria's 9th Post

Now that we have read both of the books I would like to say that they are very different than each other. One of the books that we read had to do with a holly man that wants to find nirvana and the other is about a man that is writing an autobiography. The books are not alike at all. If I was to chose which book I liked better I would say that I like the book Siddhartha better than the book Slaughter House Five because Siddhartha is more realistic than Slaughter House Five. I think that the book was more relatable and more understandable than the other book that we have read. What do you think Mark? Do which book do you like better? What do you think about both of the books?