In The Journey to the East Hesse talks about his experiences, which while reading this I had the thought of his word choice not being correct. Instead it would have been better for him to use the word encounter because that what he was doing, not experiencing. He says, "I shall always remember how the peacocks' tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks; how Don Quixote stood alone under the chestnut-tree by the fountain and held his first night-watch while the last Roman candles of the firework display fell so softly over the castle's turrets in the moonlight" (Hesse, 30-31). Hesse is describing this place as a Thou thus he should say it was an encounter instead of an experience.
As I got further into the reading I noticed Hesse's faith began to become challenged, "the stronger these feelings became, the clearer it seemed to me that it was not only that I had lost faith in finding Leo again, but everything now seemed to become unreliable and doubtful; the value and meaning of everything was threatened: our comradeship, our faith, our vow, our Journey to the East, our whole life" (Hesse, 40). In some of the Lane's reading I recall that sometimes God allows bad things to happen to good people. In Hesse questioning his meaning of life and his faith is a perfect example of what Lane says in God allowing bad things to sometimes happen to good people.
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