Awakening Vocabulary ascertained — learned with certainty contemptible ~ despicable despondency - hopelessness diffuse ~ widely spread forlorn — hopeless; wretched multiplicity ~a great number oF variety obtuse ~ unintelligent reside ~live sundered ~ severed throe ~ spasm or attack NOTE: Read this chapter with the Fourth Noble Truth in mind: The way to end desire is to follow the Eight-Fold Path. 1. What epithet does Hesse use for Siddhartha in this chapter? What part of himself does Siddhartha leave behind with his youth? 2. After awakening, Siddhartha thinks he is like a newborn child and should return to his father. Why does he not go home? 3. What does Sieldhartha realize gives him a “profound feeling of awakening from long dreams...” (Pg, 38) What epithet does Hesse use for Siddhartha after this understanding? 4. Why does Siddhartha abandon the Brahman precept that the beauty of nature is an iMlusion? 5. How does the last line in this is to follow the Hight-Fold Path? hapter support the last Noble Truth: The way to end desire