Comparing Tao Of Pooh, Malala, And Siddhartha

In today’s society, people tear themselves apart every day due to insecurities created by the world around them. Confidence was a trait that was common in most people, but today it is a rare commodity amongst the public. Characters across each of these pieces mentioned in the essay, display the consequences of having low self-esteem and or lacking inner tranquility. Society’s unfair expectations are displayed across different time periods and environments, showing how this wave of low confidence has been able to plague entire generations. In the four pieces of work, Invisible Man, The Tao of Pooh, Malala, and Siddhartha, the authors all depict the struggles that follow with not being able to reach inner-tranquility; depicting the mental and

Malala was a girl raised in Pakistan, and from an early age she was targeted by the Taliban because of her stance on females getting an education. Malala consistently spoke on her thoughts, and even acted on them, by traveling constantly to ensure she was able to collect the education she rightfully deserved. In this process, she was shot in the head and collected numerous injuries that left her with some terrible scars, balance issues, and a loss of feeling in the left side of her face. At certain points, it even looked like the young Malala might lose her life due to the lingering effects of her injuries. But she battled through these conflicts, and emerged as a global figure that demanded the attention of terrorist organizations in each crevice of the world. Her confidence was obvious in any situation, and it created a positive effect on everyone that followed her

In the piece Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, he explains “Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images… He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it”. Siddhartha for so long was working to find his place in both religion and the rest of the world. There was always an underlying uncomfortable feeling that was apparent throughout the different phases of his life. He had many issues, but continued to try and move farther and farther away from them. But like any major problem, it will not disappear until it is handled. In many ways the environment Siddhartha was often placed in, caused him to deal with many issues the Invisible Man was forced to encounter. Both scenarios did not allow for much personal growth, and left the protagonists in each story in tough ruts. Goes to show how each person’s road to internal peace differs across the board, but may start in a similar