Siddhartha:Loss of the Son

After losing his son, Siddhartha now sees people in a completely new way. He now sees people "less cleverly, less proudly, but also more warmly." Siddhartha no longer felt foreign to the child people he ferried. This suggests that with the loss of his son, Siddhartha now feels as though he is one of the child people, more so then his life as a merchant. He has now felt the loss and pain that the people around him feel. He understood them and considered them to be brothers.