Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic once said, “It is not what an author says, but what he or she whispers, that is important.” I agree with this statement. I agree because small things in life can add up and become significant. For example in Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha the author uses color motifs to describe Siddhartha and repeated change. Motif’s give the reader sense of change and composition throughout the novel.

Color is an important motif in this novel because within Siddhartha he changes with color.

Love is also associated throughout this book because as Siddhartha gets older the main character starts to think about love, and sooner or later finding a soul mate. When he gets old and starts thinking about women, then he goes through the dream. This is a motif because he has a dream every night an day.Once this happens then the young men start searching for women to spend the rest of their days with, hopefu;lly.  he becomes disolutioned with that way of life because he has no heart when Gomalla leaves.  The river symbolizes life in the book Siddhartha. when he is at the river, in the reflection he sees that the river symbolizes life.