Brother Bear

When Mrs. Feldkamp said that we had to look into a movie that related to Siddhartha, my mind immediately when to Brother Bear. And since some of you apparently had no childhood and don't know what Brother Bear is, I'll give you guys a brief description. 

Brother Bear is a movie about an civilization/tribe in the Ice Age. The men of the tribe got a spirit animal when they turned of age, and this animal was their guide for how to become a man. Our main character, Kenai, got the bear of love, which he doesn't understand or appreciate. Then, due to his inability to tie up a fish basket, a bear gets into the tribe's fish supply. Kenai goes after the bear to get the fish basket back, and long story short his brother ends up having to sacrifice himself so the bear won't kill Kenai. In rage, Kenai sets off to kill the bear, and his followed by his other brother who is trying to stop him. Kenai ends up finding and killing the bear, but his dead brother's spirit turns Kenai into the dead bear to teach him a lesson. Kenai's other (alive) brother finally reaches up to Bear Kenai and thinks that he killed Kenai, so he then sets off to kill the bear in vengeance of the death of both of his brothers. Kenai then meets up with this cub named Koda who needs his help going to the salmon run because he lost his mother, and Kenai goes because the mountain by the salmon run is where he can meet the spirits. A long montage of traveling and bounding ensues, and Koda basically teaches Kenai to be a bear (even though he doesn't believe he was once a human) and we meet a bunch of other side characters. Kenai comes to realize that in the eyes of the animals, the humans are the monsters, not bears. When they get to the salmon run, Kenai realizes that Koda's mom is the bear he killed, and she only attacked him to save Koda. Finally, when Kenai gets to the spirit mountain, he runs into his (alive) brother and the brother tries to kill him, Koda saves Kenai, and then Kenai risks his life to save Koda, and then the dead brother's spirit changes Kenai back. The alive brother is horrified he tried to kill his brother, and the brothers reunite and everything is happy and good. But Kenai realizes he can't leave Koda alone since he has no older brother to raise him. So Kenai get's turned back into a bear and they all live happily ever after. To sum up the movie in one sentence, "The boy who became a man, by becoming a bear". 

So, now that that long and probably somewhat confusing description of the movie is over, I can delve into how this relates to Siddhartha. Both stories have the same main character, an arrogant boy trying to become a man, alongside a younger sidekick, and they have to realize that they need to be more aware of themselves and that they aren't the greatest person alive, and then they realize how to be a man/better person. And while Brother Bear was definitely a lot more entertaining to watch than it was to read Siddhartha, both texts basically have the same message.