Friday, February 12, 2016

Week 5 Reading Diary: The Life of Buddha




This week I read about the life of Buddha from the Buddha unit. Story source: The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold (1922). I really liked reading about the Buddha's birth and youth because I always think it's nice to hear about a famous person's childhood. I think that's why most memoirs start out with a person's earliest memory; it's just so interesting to think of noteworthy people as babies!

I thought it was so funny how devastated Buddha was once he found out about all of the sad things in life like sickness, old age, and death. I don't know a lot about Buddha, but it was really interesting to read exactly how sheltered and loved he was. I think that it could be fun to retell this story with Buddha being a spoiled brat. Maybe he would see all these sad things and be convinced that they wouldn't affect him because he is rich and has a loving family.

I also really liked Buddha's adoptive mother, so I feel like I would want to include a character like this who loved Buddha so much and took over for her sister. Buddha has so much love and support in his life, it's truly amazing that he would be able to leave all of that in order to live the life of a monk!

No comments:

Post a Comment