Joel Crawmer's The Path To Enlightenment

“The Path to Enlightenment,” by Joel Crawmer is an essay about a book he read in his senior year of highschool. He began his thesis with a quote. It made you reflect on what you know when you read a book. To what you understand when you read a book. Crawmer did not enjoy reading until he found the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Crawmer says, "This novel taught me the importance of searching for my own enlightenment." The book was about a man searching for meaning and a higher level of thought. Crawmer had a connection to the main character because they were both just starting their lives. Crawmer was finishing high school and was deciding where to go next after college. Crawmer imagines that the book was an adventure and he was along