Ferryman Virtue-Sarah Barr

Ferryman Virtue
The ferryman’s virtue is to listen. The ferryman says that he has learned to listen from the river and so will Siddhartha. That is the only thing that he can do really well, he is not good at talking or teaching. Siddhartha is impressed about how well he can listen and he wants to learn. The ferryman says that he can not teach him how he must learn it from the river. This is important because this is not the only thing he can learn from the river he can learn other things too. Listening is just one thing that the river will teach him. I think this is important because listening is something that is not easy to do and Siddhartha is impressed on how well he can. The ferryman can also listen to the river which is something that very few people can do. Since the ferryman can do this he tells Siddhartha that he can listen to the river too and that will help him become a better listener.