"Each man's life represents a road towards himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself" (Hermann Hesse-Prologue to "Demian")

BTS have made their comeback with "Wings" and gave ARMYs everywhere another project to work on and investigate, perpetually giving us clues and

tranforming us into detectives. I have always been drawn to deeper lyrics and thematic, concept albums, songs and videos that make one think

deeper and give way to many interpretations. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon" are some of my favorite albums because of this

very reason. I believe BTS have done that in ways since their debut but the deepest and most poetic of their musical and visual creations started

with their "Hwayang-yeonhwa" ("The Most Beautiful Moment in Life") series. The group focused on the theme of "Youth". In spite of the album title

describing this time of one's life as "beautiful", the MV of its first promoted track, "I need you" dealt with a darker, more bleak side of

adolescence: depression, drug addiction, physical abuse, loneliness, isolation. BTS created a story which continued in their short film "Prologue"

and their follow-up track, "Run", off of the second part of their HYYH series. Fans tried to make sense of the story which seemed to center around

Jin. The question was always: "Is Jin the only one alive or is he the only one who died?" The other members were seen attempting suicide (in the

case of Jimin-by drowning, Suga-by setting his hotel on fire, J-Hope -by overdosing on pills), getting hit by a car (Jungkook), commiting murder

(V) and as for RapMon, it was supposed (but never directly implied) that he may have set the gas station on fire, killing himself in the process.

"Prologue" flipped everything around and made it seem like Jin was the only one left, the only one in the realm of the living. The pictures he

took with the other members showed that nobody was really there. He was alone. In "Run", the perspective changed again, Jin once more being the

"odd one out", a chalk-outline symbolically drawn around him, a house of cards shattering in front of him symbolizing the sudden awareness of his

condition. It was not him mourning the death of the others but the others dealing with his death in different, often self-destructive ways.

Perhaps a less popular theory at that time was that which stated that Jin was the only real person and that the other six boys represented sides

of him, struggles he had to face. But "Wings" made it clear that Jimin, Suga, J-Hope, RapMon, Jungkook and V are all sides of Jin. The teasers for

their upcoming album, "Wings" all had the same structure: they began with RapMon quoting a paragraph from the book "Demian" by Hermann Hesse and

then showing each of the boys battling different demons and fears. Each came with a quotation from past releases (pointing out the fact that it is

all connected, that this is a cohesive thematic universe and all the clues we need are there). Each of the teasers (or small artistic masterpieces

as I like to call them) also had a sample of their individual songs which also connected to the theme of the video. Then "Blood, sweat and tears"

came out and they made it even more clear that this comeback is intimately and deeply connected to "Demian". They also referenced Nietzsche, whose

ideologies Hesse adopted, as well as the Greek myth of Icarus, Daedalus' son who disobeyed his father and flew too close to the sun which melted

his wax wings, causing him to fall into the sea to his death.  "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" is the painting that captivates Jin in the beginning

of the MV. "The Lament for Icarus" appears in Jungkook's floating scenes and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" appears as V is seen jumping off

off a balcony. Everything is centered around wings, falling from grace, losing one's purity and ability to fly as a result of free

will.

Hermann Hesse's novel is intimately and deeply linked to this whole comeback as well as previous releases. It is a bildungsroman centered on

the moral, psychological and spiritual growth of its protagonist, Emil Sinclair and the catalyst to his extreme change of perception, Max Demian.

Before analyzing each of the seven "Wings" short films and relating them to the novel "Demian" (The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth"), here is a

brief synopsis of the story, for those who have not yet read it.

The novel begins with the memories of a young Emil Sinclair and a life-changing event which occured when he was ten years old. Raised in a very

religious, Christian household, Sinclair had been a model student and obedient child to his mother and father, while being aware of two

overlapping realms, light and darkness, good and evil. One day, trying to fit in among his group of mischievous friends lead by a bully named

Franz Kromer, he tells a lie about him stealing a sack of apples from a miller's garden. Kromer threatens Sinclair to tell the miller of his

crime, unless he can provide the reward of two marks himself. Sinclair hides this from his family and starts stealing to provide the money to

Kromer, whose whistle he always hears when he comes to collect. Sinclair is tormented by Kromer as well as his own guilt and feels as if he is

drawn to the realm of darkness and sin. One day he meets an older schoolmate, Max Demian, who seems very different from all the others. Demian has

a different worldview and believes for instance that the mark of Cain was a mark of honor and that it was not dishonourable for him to kill Abel.

Demian seems to be able to read inside people's souls and manipulate them. He finds out about Kromer's bullying of Sinclair and the very next day,

Kromer leaves Sinclair alone. Sinclair goes back to being a model son and student, returning to the realm of light he had once betrayed. Years

pass until he meets Demian again, his life seemingly linked to his. Along his journey he befriends Alfons Beck who drives him to alcoholism and

serves as a negative role-model, Pistorius, an organist at church who becomes a second mentor alongside Demian and tells him more about the God

Abraxas who is a God of both good and evil, Knauer, a suicidal student who wants to make Sinclair his own mentor and, finally, at the end of the

novel, Frau Eva, Demian's mother who looks remarkably like the woman Sinclair used to always paint (alongside the sparrow hawk constantly

mentioned throughout the book). She becomes his ideal woman whom he pursues. He moves in with Demian and his mother, embracing the mark that sets

them apart and the God Abraxas. Demian has visions of the world as they know it ending and they come true with the start of the First World War.

Deployed in the war, Sinclair gets wounded. Demian visits him and tells him that if he ever needs him he no longer has to physically appear in his

life as he is a part of him. Demian kisses Sinclair, on behalf of Frau Eva and disappears forever, having accomplished his goal of mentoring

Sinclair in his journey of self-discovery.

WINGS 1: "Begin"

Let it be noted that the release of "Wings" was on 10.10 which correlates to the age at which Sinclair's life changed. The name of the first short

film is "Begin". There are so many cross-references and symbols that relate to the book in this first movie alone! RapMon quotes this excerpt from

the very first page of chapter 1 of the book:

"The realms of day and night, two different worlds coming from two oppsite poles, mingled during this time". (page 3 on my edition).

This quote is of utmost importance, because it presents the crisis Sinclair faces, wanting to be a part of the realm of light and to be good but

being drawn towards evil. Jungkook is seen painting a portrait. Just as in the novel, he perceives it as a familiar face (Suga for him, Beatrice

for Sinclair). But in both the novel and the movie, the portrait becomes damaged and the colors melt, revealing a different face, the face of

Demian. Jungkook looks distressed upon seeing the new image, much as Sinclair. Sinclair also paints the sparrow hawk mentioned to him by Demian.

The bird image is upon a coat of arms hanging over his house. This signals his desire for freedom that was there since his early childhood, a

desire he was not aware of until he met Demian. Jungkook, just like Sinclair, folds a drawing of the bird and places it inside an envelope.

Sinclair delivers this envelope to Demian (we see RapMon opening the same envelope with the bird drawing in "Reflection"). Jungkook's shadow is the

bird, reflecting that it is a part of him, his true self that his fate is leading him towards. The text on the black screen is a quote from

"Tomorrow" ("Because the dawn right before the sun rises in the darkness"). This relates to the motif of "Boy meets evil". In order to discover

and accept one's true self, one must embrace both the good and the evil (darkness) in the world. Jungkook is just another side of Jin who

represents Sinclair. He reflects his subconscious manifesting itself through art.

The whistle at the beginning of the short film which reappears in Suga's as well is a reference to Kromer's whistle which haunts Sinclair. When

Kromer blackmails Sinclair and arrives to collect his rewards, he always whistles, something Sinclair says gives him chills to the present day.

The whistling in Jungkook's film has an eerie, gloomy effect.

WINGS 2: "Lie"

"My parents' house made up one realm (...) This realm was familiar to me in almost every way- mother and father, love and strictness, model

behavior and school". (p.3)

This excerpt, quoted by RapMon once again is a continuation of the first one, further describing Sinclair's world, which seems the ordinary world

of any student his age. The stage is set for a life-changing event which starts with an apparently harmless lie. Jimin's short film starts with

the image of a forest which turns out to be fake, it is an artificial image of nature. The next striking image in the teaser is the blinding

whiteness and simplicity. Jimin takes a bite out of an apple. The apple is of course a reference to Sinclair's lie for which he gets punished and

bullied by Franz Kromer. Sinclair swears the lie is true in the name of God. A lie about mischief leads Sinclair to real treachery and more lies.

The further he sinks into the lie, the more he drifts apart from the world of light and purity, his parents and sisters drifting further and

further away.

Jimin sings this part of his solo track, "Lie". The lyrics perfectly reflect Sinclair's struggle. He wants to be delivered from his tormentor and

regain his purity:

"Caught in a lie, find back the pure me/ I cannot get out of this lie/ Give me back my smile/ Caught in a lie, save me from this hell/ I cannot

get out of this chaos/ Save me, who is being punished". The apple appears on the screen when he sings the word "hell". The apple has a biblical

symbolism as well, it represents temptation, sin, choosing free will and being punished. Sinclair is exiled from heaven much as Adam and Eve were.

It was not their deed but their lie that lead to their exile.

The words "Please stop me, please guide me/ Please let me breathe" (Jimin's lyrics in "Run") appear on the screen. These lyrics made me draw a

parallel between Jimin and another character, Knauer. Jimin is an extension of Jin (Sinclair) but he also reminds me of Knauer ("he was a

delicate, weak-looking boy with thin red-blond hair and the look in his eyes seemed unusual" (p.98) Knauer is suicidal (much like Jimin in "I need

you") and he begs Sinclair to save him and be his mentor. Sinclair fails to help him with any words of advice but he saves his life by chance.

Another reason Jimin reminded me of Knauer is because in the short film, Jimin is staring at the different geometrical shapes (we know these are a

part of psychiatric evaluations) and Knauer is also into the habit of doing this. Knauer uses this as a method of distraction. More interestingly,

Knauer mentiones water which is a haunting element for Jimin ever since "I Need You" (the tub of water appears in INU, Run as well as BST). Knauer

says he has used cold water and snow as a means of treating himself but when Sinclair discovers him the night he tries to commit suicide, his room

is dark, cold and damp, the wet cement indicating he too may have tried to drown himself. Sinclair saves Knauer and Demian saves Sinclair from

suicide "My life was wrecked. I thought of running away and never coming back, or of drowning myself".

Jimin is another extention of Sinclair, he represents the initial lie and descent into darkness (in the teaser, the white curtains are lifted to

reveal nothing but darkness).

WINGS 3: "Stigma"

"It was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself (...) Such

fissures and rents grow together again, heal and are forgotten, but in the most secret recesses they continue to live and bleed" (p. 14).

Just like "Lie", the title of the third short film, "Stigma", correlates to the novel Demian directly. A stigma can be considered a mark of

disgrace (like Cain's whose traditional perception Demian challenges, making it out to be a mark of dignity) but it also has been used, in the

Christian tradition, to describe Jesus' marks following his crucifixion). In the quotation above, it is said that each individual must destroy his

childhood and innocence to become himself. The mark relates to Cain who is the Bible's first murderer. In "I Need You", V kills his own father to

protect his mother and sister. When asked about his parents in the teaser, he says he has none. In the novel, only Demian's mother is mentioned.

We do not known what happened to his father. All we know is that Demian advocates for Cain, saying his crime may have been justified.

The lyrics to V's song, "Stigma" are a cry for help and forgiveness and they are aimed towards his sister (Sinclair also has sisters in the novel.

They represent an unattainable purity and he feels shame towards them after his acts of crime).

"I'm sorry (x3) my sister/ Even if I hide it/ Even if I disguise it/ It isn't erased/ So cry, please dry my eyes/ The light, please illuminate my

crimes/ Deeper, darker, I feel like I'm dying/ Please punish me/ Please forgive that crime/ Please".

These lyrics are a testament to the ingenuinity of BTS' thematic albums as the lyrics relate perfectly to both V's acts in the "I need you" MV as

well as to Sinclair's acts in "Demian". Sinclair wants to be forgiven but he is too scared to confess to his parents or sisters. This makes him

feel lonelier than he ever has. We see V locked inside a prison, showing his isolation from the outside world. But if we think about isolation and

loneliness, BTS have never spoken more directly about it than in "Whalien 52", a song that speaks about the "loneliest creature in the world", the

only whale in the world that emits frequencies of 52 Hertz, unheard by others. The following quote from the song appears: "There are only

different whales speaking entirely different words". V, just like Jimin, is perpetually associated with water. But unlike Jimin, V seems to belong

to bigger bodies of waters (he jumps into the sea in "Prologue", he is seen struggling inside deep waters in "Run", falling into black water but

re-emerging at the end. The water can also be seen as his baptism, his reawakening. In "Blood, sweat and tears" V is associated to Icarus, a

fallen angel, but he also represents Demian. I find it fascinating that he is always connected to the idea of flight (even in "I need you" when

him and RapMon are laying down down in the parking lot, their shadows form a butterfly.

And speaking of "Butterfly", we even have a butterfly reference in the novel. As opposed to the lonely whale whose call no other whale can hear,

the butterfly mentioned in the novel can communicate and draw others of its species from great distances. This later on connects to the telepathic

abilities Demian and Frau Eva seem to possess, being able to hear Sinclair's call no matter the distance:

"There is a species of butterfly, a night moth, in which the females are much less common than the males (...) If you take a female night moth,

the male moths will visit the female at night, and they will come from hours away. From a distance of several miles, all these males sense the

only female in the region" (p. 47)

Demian uses this example to demonstrate the power of will to Sinclair, showing him that freedom and happiness can be achieved and that one's own

will is stronger than anuthing. V seems eager to jump and try to fly in Prologue when "Butterfly" plays in the background as he jumps from the

pier, as well as in "Blood, sweat and tears" when he jumps from the balcony. At the end of the video all we see are two two scars where his wings

used to be. Demian tells Sinclair humans used to be equipped with a primordial organ that allowed them to fly. V's wings are on the statue that

Jin kisses. The statue represents a pact with the devil, the boy embracing evil, but also Sinclair kissing both Demian and Eva when their

teachings are complete.

WINGS 4: "First love"

"There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This was the way it dealt with me at the time"

Suga's teaser film is connected to Jungkook's from the very beginning because of the whistle reminiscent of Kromer's beckoning call. Then there is

the car crash (Jungkook gets hit by a car in "I Need you"). Suga and Jungkook are also paired in "Run" when they are fighting. The mention of God

in the quoted paragraph is extremely important. I believe Suga's representation in the novel is Pistorius, who is an organist at a church Sinclair

happens to walk by during a time of his life when he again feels suicidal. Sinclair's "first love" is with a girl he meets in a park whom he never

approaches. He names her Beatrice and paints her obsessively. In the end her face changes into that of Demian's mother. Suga plays the organ in

"Blood, sweat and tears" but that is not the only thing he has in common with Pistorius, who also believes in the God Abraxas and has failed to

become a preacher because of this very reason. He does not believe in the traditional God. Pistorius is often associated with the fire element

(which Suga is also heavily associated with: from burning the hotel room "I need you" to the burning piano in "Wings"): "He struck a match and lit

paper and wood (...) The flames leapt high. For about an hour we lay (...) watching the flames shoot up and roar". (p. 89). There are few words

exchanged between Sinclair and Pistorius, they practice "fire worship" the first time they meet.

The lyrics which flash on the screen next are from "Pathways": "Would I be different, if I had chosen a different path, if I had stopped and

looked back". This can also correlate to both Suga wishing he could have saved Jungkook but also to Pistorius wishing he had chosen the easier

path, obeying one God and leading a normal life, as opposed to believing in many and living as a recluse. Sinclair abandons him after he feels

there is nothing else his mentor can teach him. Pastorius' first love is music, just as Suga's (the piano). Sinclair's first love is Beatrice

(Eva).

WINGS 5: "Reflection"

"The other realm, however, overlapping half our house, was completely different (...) a loud mixture of horrendous, intriguing, frightful,

mysterious things, including slaughterhouses and prisons, drunkards and screeching fishwives, calving cows, horses sinking to their death, tales

of robberies, murders, and suicides". (p.4)

I find that RapMon's role in this series is one of the most interesting and complex. Ever since the release of HYYH part 1 and "I need you",

RapMon, apart from Jin and V seemed to stand out the most, his situation different from the rest who either seemed to have attempted suicide or

suffered an accident. I believe the Tumblr user "taetaetown" was on to something when he/she came up with the "RapMon as the Grim Reaper theory".

We have already established that Jin is Sinclair and V is Demian. RapMon is a mixture of both but there is more Demian in him than Sinclair. He

also is the embodiment of Alfons Beck in the novel. We see RM receiving the letter that Jungkook sent from the first teaser. Jungkook set the

drawing of the bird in an envelope just as Sinclair did and sent it to Demian, hoping it would reach him. In both the novel and the video, the

letter reaches its destination. RapMon tattoes the image of the bird onto his arm and then proceeds to burn the paper, tossing it into his cup and

drinking it. He did something similar in "Run". Yes, you could argue in "Run" it was a lollipop but if we all remember, the version of the "I

Need You" MV showed that the lollipop was actually a cigarette. So what is the deal with RM constantly setting things on fire and drinking ash?

And why did he write "You need to survive" in "Prologue"? (referenced again in his Wings video). RM seems to have more insight into the future. He

is always shown next to V in the HYYH photo album, always wearing black. In both "I Need You" and "Run" they are paired together, usually getting

in trouble and running from the law. He may represent the devil or the Grim Reaper. He represents evil but also the temptations in life. In

"Blood, sweat and tears', he is seen drinking again, this time absynthe which is considered a dangerous, forbidden drink that triggers

hallucinations. He is also seen smoking again. His equivalent in the novel is Alfons Beck, Sinclair's worst mentor who drives him to

uncontrollable alcoholism and irresponsible behavior. Demian saves him once again, before he hits rock bottom. As the novel progresses, Sinclair

and Demian become more and more alike.

"Who do you see through the mirror right now?" (RapMon's verse in "No More Dream") flashes onto the screen. This foreshadows Sinclair's revelation

at the end of the novel when his face resembles that of Demian and Demian tells him if he is ever needed, he need only look inside himself to find

him. The one who V calls in "Prologue" after he murders his father is RapMon. In the grand scheme of things, V murdering his father is a metaphor

for him killing his innocence, the traditions instilled in him, the childhood "which every individual must destroy before he can become himself".

In V and RapMon free will and chaos manifest themselves the most (though all seven boys are seen ar rebels in "Run" which again makes sense,

because at the end of the day they are all different parts of Jin).

RapMon's short film ends with his words from the song "Reflection": "I wish I could love myself". Sinclair's journey is one of self-discovery and

acceptance. He must embrace both sides of the world, light and darkness, find love, free will and inner strength, in order to love himself and

accept himself.

The word "War", painted on the side of the chained-up photo booth references Demian's prophecy, the end of the world represented by The First

World War. There is longer a need for telepathic communication between Sinclair and Demian. They are one and the same.

WINGS 6: "Mama"

"With a face that resembled her son's, timeless, ageless and full of inner strength, the beautiful woman smiled with dignity. Her gaze was

fulfillment, her greeting a homecoming. Silently, I stretched my hands out to her" (p.122)

J-Hope and Jimin's short films have several common elements: the painting of the forest, the blinding whiteness of the mental institution (the

Rorschach inkblot testing for Jimin (diagnosis) and the pills for J-Hope (treatment following his own diagnosis -Munchausen syndrome which we know

is a factitious disorder where the subject feigns their symptoms). In "Run" they are together, shown lying atop a pile of white feathers. J-hope's

fake illness and Jimin's lie connect. Sinclair's inner turmoil and sickness are a direct result of his lie and secret. Sinclair becomes extremely

ill on a purely psychological basis. Jimin bites out of the apple, the temptation that brought him to the dark. J-Hope takes a bite out of the

chocolate (which Sinclair's mom tries to offer to her sick child but he refuses when he is burdened by his guilt, but accepts once he is saved and

comes back into the world of light). J-Hope represents Sinclair after he is first saved from his bully, Kromer. His tormentor gone, Sinclair tells

his parents the truth, which liberates him and returns him to sanity and light:

"The Sky is Blue and the Sun is Shining" (J-Hope's lyrics in "I Need You) appear onto the screen. When J-Hope walks away, the painting of the

forest changes to that of a mother and child and the name "Eva" appears on the bottom right corner. Frau Eva is Demian's mother. She has both male

and female characteristics and is referred to as both an angel and a demon, a mother and the subject of romantic love. She becomes Sinclair's

obsession and the love of his life. When he meets her, Sinclair is finally at peace and home.

"How often I dreamed that I stepped beneath the heraldic bird into our house, wanted to draw my mother to me but instead held the great, half-

male, half-maternal woman in my arms, of whom I was afraid but who also attracted me violently". (p.95)

Eva encourages Sinclair to pursue his desires in order to win her over. Sinclair kisses all the objects that she touches, until he finally wins

her over and kisses her lips.

WINGS 7: Awake

"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's

name is Abraxas". (p.78)

In the novel, Sinclair first hears about Abraxas when he reads the lines above in Demian's reply to his letter containing his bird drawing.

Abraxas is ""a god whose symbolic task is the uniting of godly and devilish elements" (p.80). The traditional God figure "represented only one

arbitrarily separated half of the world" but Demian convinced Sinclair that one ought to be able to worship the world as a whole, encompassing

both the good and the evil, the light and the darkness.

Jin's short film and his song offer us the key to solving and interpreting the story that BTS have created based on the novel. All the elements

which appeared in the other six boys' teasers appear in his. Jin is Sinclair and the other boys are parts of him as well as mentors who help him

become himself.

Jin sits at a table alone (In "Blood, Sweat and Tears" the others join him). We see him staring at the apple but he does not take a bite out of

it, he lets it fall to the floor, symbolizing his growth, the fact that he moved on from the temptation of lying. He returns to his room (similar

to the one in "I Need You" and we see him staring outside it as a bird flies by. The marks and scratches on the door suggest his insanity and

attempt at escaping his prison. Just like Sinclair, part of him wishes to stay in his room, to be bathed in the light and protected. But the other

part of him wins, the part of him that is ready to grow and be on his own. He no longer needs mentors and protection, he has learned to fly on his

own. In "Blood, sweat and tears" Jin is shown kissing the black-winged statue (which represents Eva as well as Demian). This is the act that

symbolizes "boy meets evil". Evil tries to be silenced and denied (represented by the other members' shielding Jin's eyes, ears and mouth with

their hands in the MV" (See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil), but in the end it is best if one's dual nature is not repressed.

"You need to survive" is written on the painting, echoing RapMon's words, just as Demian's who saves Sinclair's life several times.

Jin walks down the corridor, its wallpaper showing a representation of the God Abraxas as the lyrics to his song "Awake" are heard, marking his

epiphany and rediscovery of his true self:

"I want to stay. I want to dream more. But it's time to leave/ Yeah, it's my truth, it's my truth/ I would be full of scars/ But it's my fate,

it's my fate/ Still, I want to struggle. Maybe I can never fly, just like those flowers, just as if I had wings./ Maybe I never will, maybe I

can't touch the sky/ But I still want to outstretch my hand/ I want to run just a little more" ("Awake")

This resistance and desire to maintain his innocence, the lament over the painful desire to fly is a characteristic that seems to have followed

Jin throghout the "Youth" series. However, in "Blood, sweat and tears' he becomes resolute and more determined than ever, as he approaches the

statue and knows exactly what he must do. With a kiss he embraces Abraxas, the good and the evil, love and desire, all that the world has to

offer, whether it be happiness or pain. The past is finally behind him. The other pieces of him represented by the other six boys fall into place.

What cracks at the end is the old self, like the egg that the bird must fight its way out of in order to be able to stretch its wings and fly.

"Wings" continues the "Youth" series which poetically and symbolically expresses the struggles man must encounter as he transitions from childhood

to adolescence, to adulthood, embracing all aspects of life. The story is not romanticized, it deals with real, visceral problems, it presents the

tragic outcomes the youth may face but there is also an alternative, and at the end of the day, a positive, hopeful note. Hope comes from

togetherness and finding those who have an akin soul, ready to embrace our own. We do not have to face our struggles and inner demons alone.

I commend BTS and their creative team for taking on such an ambitious project and merging so many literary, philosophical and artistic influences

into such a cohesive and masterfully-put-together story. As a bonus, they got a lot of fans to read this classic work and to do research in an

attempt to both educate their fans and stir their imagination, uniting music with literature and art to send an empowering message of one's own

potential and self-awakening.

Thank you BTS. Thank you BigHit. I am so very grateful I got to read this novel and share my thoughts here.

Bibliography:

Hesse, Hermann Demian (2009) First Harper Perennial Modern Classics (originally published in 1925 by Fischer Verlang).