Siddhartha pargraph 2

The child people are basically anyone other than the samana's. The samana's live without worries about money problems, jobs, and their life, friends, and families. They live without property and material possessions. This is exactly what the child people strive for, and that makes the samana's look on in disgust. The child people value the things that the samana's avoid, and it makes them weak. Their weakness lies in their value of things that are worthless to samana's, which makes their lives harder to live, and living harder to enjoy. The child people whine and complain to Siddhartha about their problems and seeks his advice, even though he sees no value in their so called problems. Although they have weaknesses in their value of possessions and life in general, they have the strength of a will to happiness. Where samana's want no ego, and they do have values in meditation, they don't have need happiness, and they don't really want it. That does lead to less troubles in life, but it also doesn't give life as much value. 

Siddhartha part one, Awakening, question 6

Siddhartha realizes that, although his teachers have taught him mnay things, and have given him guidance, he hasn't been able to get rid of the one thing he most saught to get rid of, which is his ego. Siddhartha says that he could "not overcome it" (Pg. 36), and that he had been asking teachers for help to get rid of his ego. But the only way for him to truly get rid of his ego is by looking inside himself, and teaching himself to overcome it. He compared it to reading a book, and critisizing the letters and signs, rather than reading and absorbing what the book had to say. In other words, Siddhartha had been critisizing and trying to find meaning in what he was being taught, mean while ignoring what he himself had to say about it. This marks a new chaoter in Siddhartha's life as he tries to find his place in the world, and where he belongs, now that he has been enlightened, or rather, awakened.