Time and Voice of the River

In The Ferryman, Siddhartha learns many new things but not from a person, but from a river, a river that teaches. Siddhartha’s dead inner voice is now practically the river, because the river has a voice. “He learned how to listen, he learned how to listen with a still heart, with an expectant, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.” This means that he is willing to learn and listen to what the river has to teach him. The significance of this is that now Siddhartha is willing to learn like at the beginning of the book when he had a “thirst for knowledge” now the river is teaching him everything that he wants to learn. I think what he is doing, learning from the river is best decision he has made in a long time.