While reading Siddhartha, I made a connection to the famous quote: "like father, like son". This quote can be applied to Siddhartha and his son. They both face the same issue at one point in their lives, and they handle it the same way.
The quote says a son will perform the same actions that his father did when he was younger. In Chapter 11, the river "laughs" at the repetition of life's patterns, because both Siddhartha and his son run away from the lives they disliked. Siddhartha was raised in luxury, but due to his desire for enlightenment, he chooses to run away. Siddhartha's son despises living in poverty with his father and Vasudeva, so he decides to run away from the riverbank.
A father always sets the example for his children, and in this case, Siddhartha taught his child that running away is the solution to an unsatisfactory way of life.
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