Authorial Information - Herman Hesse was born in 1877 in a rural part of Germany. He lived in a ministry and was expected to devote his life to his religion. He however left the ministry in 1892. When he was expelled from high school he started work at a German bookstore. In 1919 he moved permanently to Switzerland and released many books. One of his last books, Magistar Ludi, won him the Nobel Prize in 1946. He lived in …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…So he decided to strive forward in his original quest for inner peace. He met the Ferryman, Vasadava, who taught him to listen to the river. The river brings out in him the one thing he had been looking for his whole life, inner peace. In conlussion Siddhartha had many teachers: The Brahmins, the Samana's, Kamala, Kamaswami, and Vasadava. He learned that only he could learn to be at inner peace and not anybody else.