Antwone And Siddhartha Comparison Essay

Recently after reading, “Siddhartha,” by Herman Hesse and watching, “Antwone Fisher,” directed by Denzel Washington, both the main characters go through a journey of finding themselves. There are quite some similarities between Siddhartha and Antwone, but there are more differences. Siddhartha is a spiritual pilgrim, completely focused on his quest for self-enlightenment. Antwone Fisher, is an unstable male that’s enlisted in the Navy, that “came from under a rock.” They both go through a lot of problems until they can get to their end goals. Both characters receive teachings and learn life lessons, but they get it in different ways. Similar to when they both go through love. Antwone’s experience with love is completely different froms Siddhartha’s
Soon enough Siddhartha realizes he’s got off track, forgetting about the enlightenment he was in search for. So, one morning he decides to leave all his wealth, Kamala and Kamaswami behind and go back. He finds himself back at the river, and he starts telling Vasudeva everything he went through. Vasudeva sits there listens and listens until Siddhartha is done. He tells Sidd to go and listen to the river. As he listened, his soul started warming up and little by little he had finally reached enlightenment, through all the teaches he had been taught. In contrast, Antwone was always an uptight. He had extreme anger issues and always caused fights. Being in the Navy, fighting wasn’t acceptable, so every time he caused trouble Antwone was sent off to the medical center. At the center, he had to see Dr. Davenport, the psychiatrist, and talk his anger out. Antwone felt he doesn’t need to be there so he leaves. He continues to get into fights and always ends back up at the medical office, and since Antwone refuses to talk Dr, Davenport waits and waits till he’s ready to speak. As his weekly sessions continue, he starts talking about his