Similarly, in Satanic Verses, the character of Saladin Chamcha has a great dissatisfaction with his culture. His Indian background will always be a part of him but he feels a strong connection with Western civilization in England. He wishes to journey there because his goal is to become a proper Englishman. That goal becomes diluted along the way by his rooted ties to his homeland, but his original desire to become westernized. .
The next stage in the journey is a search for fulfillment. This search always requires that one move away from home. The search can continue to several different locations and it is not set as to whether it is necessarily a movement from the civilized to nature or the reverse. To illustrate, in Luke, Jesus moves from Bethlehem to the desert (civilization to nature) whereas, in the Satanic Verses, Saladin moves from India to England (nature to civilization) or even be a combination of both as seen in Siddhartha when Siddhartha moves from his home to the forest to the city where he meets Kamala back to nature where he lives with Vasudeva in a hut. In Luke, Jesus" actual physical movement takes him from Bethlehem to the desert and then to Jerusalem. In each of these locations Jesus is searching for something or perhaps more accurately he is just moving according to a prophecy about his death. It's less of a search for Jesus because he sees the future, but he still must make that physical journey to Jerusalem in order to achieve his goal. Siddhartha's search is a true search because of how confused Siddhartha is and he is looking everywhere for answers. He doesn't find the answers at home, so he follows Samanas into the forest, but he realizes that they cannot help him achieve Nirvana. Siddhartha goes to learn from Buddha because he is the only one that has found Nirvana, but he only learns from Buddha so much, so he must again leave. As he continues, he encounters Kamala and then leaves her years later to go live in a hut by the river.
