... son did he understand the love towards one's child. When Siddhartha sees parents with their children, or man with his wife, he knows the feeling they have. But this understanding neither makes his wound heal nor make him forget about the lost of his son. When Siddhartha looks into the river, he sees his reflection staring back. And it reminds him of his father, who must "had suffered the same sorrow that he is now suffering for his own son". Hesse describes the feeling of losing one's own son effectively, as if he himself has lost one before. I think Hesse is trying to make teenagers understand the unselfish love they have from their parent. Siddhartha also realised that everything moves in recurring circles, they follow paths which is followed by so many before. Siddhartha is actually a representation of everyone. Everyone might face what Siddhartha has faced. In ...

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