SYNOPSIS OF DEMIAN: THE STORY OF EMIL SINCLAIR'S YOUTH

This novel tells about a young boy named Emil Sinclair who lived in small town with his parents and his sister. He tells his experience when Sinclair was ten years old Sinclair divides the realm into 2 parts, light world and dark world. He said that the light world was in his parents’s house, where he can find clarity, brilliance, goodness, calmness, full of religious and cleanliness. While at outside Sinclair’s home is dark world for Sinclair. Sinclair thinks that the dark world full of wickedness, rumors of scandal, sin, mysterious things, evil and frightful. When Sinclair was ten years old, he is a young boy who had good attitude, spoiled and fainthearted.

His desire to be accepted in a social group, making himself to create a heroic lie story about his story steals apples in a orchard near a factory so that Sinclair seems like naughty, brave and gallant in front of his friends.  Suddenly the story about stealing of apples in a orchard near a factory used by Franz Kromer. Franz Kromer is a naughty boy who was a few years older than Sinclair. Afterwards Franz Kromer used this situation for demand 2 marks from Sinclair, so that Sinclair could give 2 marks for Kromer. Sinclair felt so regret about that and Sinclair felt that he had already fallen into dark world. From the incident left a lot of trauma and Sinclair regretted the incident.

Someday in small town, there is a new student in Sinclair’s school, his name is Max Demian. He has known as Demian and he lived with his mother in a town where Sinclair lived. Demian’s personality very different from his age, with his mature personality, commanding and calm. The first impression that Demian had able to make Sinclair could not stop admire at Demian and makes Sinclair could not stop staring at him. The appearance of a clever boy like Demian with his thoughts and his cleverness has inspired Sinclair to find the way to Sinclair’s true identity.

Demian who helps Sinclair from  Frans Kromer’s menace. A few days later after that incident, Sinclair avoided Demian because Demian has a lot of rumors and mistery. When  Sinclair became teenager, his character and his social environment had changed since he was entered a senior high school.

At that time, Sinclair met Alfons Beck. Alfons Beck is Sinclair’s senior at School dormitory where Sinclair lived. Alfons Beck who makes Sinclair become a bad boy at his senior high school. Afterwards Sinclair met Pistorius at church when Pistorius played a song with his piano. Pistorius is a pianist at church who lived where Sinclair’s dormitory school at. Their meeting started with the story about Abraxas, then they exchanged thoughts about story, life and many more . Pistorius become Sinclair’s mentor and replace Demian for a while.

But one day Sinclair left Pistorius because Sinclair thinked that what Pistorius said, it did not agree with Sinclair’s thought. After Sinclair finished his senior high school, he continued his study to university. During holiday, Sinclair visited to Demian’s home for met him and Demian’s mother. When Sinclair met with Demian’s mother for the first time, Sinclair felt  this figure that Sinclair was looking for during his life and this is his destiny.