Book Report-Demian

Demian is my favorite novel. Sometimes I read this book which was Hesse's brilliant coming-of-age novel about the spiritual and psychological growth of a young boy who detached from and revolts against this hell of superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakened into a realization of self. In his world, a plat of worlds means world of illusion. So, Sinclair struggled between two world that is world of illusion and the real world. In this book, my impressed phrase is "The bird struggles out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born, must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas." When I wrote self-introduction, I always quoted this phrase. That phrase was very impressed to me. Abraxas means something as a bird breaking free from a world. Through this phrase, I think that I also should break my world and should become independent from my world.

A summary of story-Psychological torture led Sinclair to meet Demian. He was a mentor and friend of Sinclair. Then, he led Demian to self-realization. While he was in school, he imaged a beautiful woman whom he called Beatrice. Pistorius was a rector. He teached Sinclair how to look inside himself for spiritual guide. When he was troubled with two world for good and evil, he took good and evil's inner confliction and discovered the power of the inner self. Before World Was 1 broke out, Sinclair met Mrs. Eva and she became ideal character in his life. He loves her more and more and discuss about World War 1. When World War 1 broke out Demian and Sinclair engage in warfare, they were injured. Then, Sinclair slept because of injure. After, he woke up. Eva told to Sinclair which was Damian told to Sinclair. He looked for Demian. But he is disappeared. I think that part show us Sinclair's self-realization. So the completed self(Demian) becomes Sinclair.