Question 3) Even though Siddhartha thinks that the ferryman is a childlike person, to me he seems to be very mysterious and important to the novel. The night that Siddhartha sleeps at the ferryman's hut, he has a dream that seems to be very questioning of Siddhartha's choice to leave Govinda. This dream may represent some sort of magical energy that is in the hut because this is the first time that we see one of Siddhartha's dreams, and that the dream was very detailed and questioning. Also later on, when Siddhartha crosses the river with the ferryman, the ferryman tells Siddhartha that they will meet again, and that Siddhartha will bring a gift for the feryman. This implies that the ferryman has some sort of powers, because he is able to predict what will happen. The fact that there was some sort of mysterious energy running through the hut, and the ferryman is able to prophecise something that will be happening in the future, it is very possible that the ferryman has some sort of mystical powers that Siddhartha is not aware of.
-Josh
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