Alchemists: A Short Story

Dreams are the base of The Alchemist action as its meaning. In my opinion the author is trying to describe the journey of Santiago and compares it to the journey of life in general. The message of The Alchemist is to always have a goal, a dream, something that you can focus on, but always trusting yourself. In this novel, probably it has a moral, but been honest I did not know which is it. It can have more than one but this is just an opinion.

Have you ever encountered problems while trying to fulfill a goal in your life? In the book The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, a shepherd boy named Santiago overcomes obstacles to reach his personal legend. Throughout the book Santiago encounters many friends to help him fulfill his destiny. Santiago encounters many problems throughout the story. He overcomes them with the help of his friends and his wife-to-be. These problems shape Santiago into a dignified man of many traits.

“You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one,” Laura Prepon. Santiago, the main character of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist leads a modest and ordinary life as a shepherd. Santiago travelled constantly, exploring the Andalusian terrain. In his travels, Santiago met a woman who interpreted his dreams, and told him his treasure would lie in Egypt at the pyramids. However, Santiago believed that the dream interpreter was a phony, and he continued to herd his sheep. Soon after, he exchanged words with the King of Salem, and Santiago was once again told to venture to Egypt in order to find his treasure. After careful consideration, Santiago sells his precious sheep and begins his journey. An alchemist, somebody who turns lead

1)Why does Coelho open with the modified myth of Narcissus? How does the new version differ from the original one? How does it change the myth’s meaning? What might the author be suggesting about how we perceive ourselves and the world?

Some may refer to The Alchemist as a best-selling novel written by Paulo Coelho which explains the ideas of having a dream, or Personal Legend, and going through obstacles to conquer it. The book starts off like any other, introducing and describing the main characters, in this case Santiago is the first to share the interest of peers reading the story. He is said to be a small town shepherd boy who will do anything for his flock of sheep. In the opening scene of the story, Santiago takes his flock to an abandoned church and lies down under a sycamore tree hoping to get some rest. He is soon woken up from a disturbing dream which foreshadows further into the story of his own Personal Legend. Later in the book, Santiago is faced with multiple tests to be successful in finding his treasure. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure” (Coelho 15). Paulo continues to add characters in the book that help Santiago throughout his journey.

“Inventing conspiracies that are inspirational have a chance at changing the world for the better.” Kira looked like she wanted to continue, but glanced at Nora and Jonas who were glaring at her.

Although Ender and Santiago's stories were not alike, they both shared the attributes of a hero's journey, like the call and the mentor stages. In the book Ender's game, Ender demonstrates attributes of a hero's journey, one of which, is the mentor stage. Colonel Graff realized early on in the book that Ender was special. The quote took place towards the end, when it became more and more obvious that Ender was the one.

“Hello, I am the person who decided if the chem is still working or not, and it is not working sorry.” The lady said and walk straight out of the room trampling Eve.

Lily grabbed the triangular material with the new gem I’d attached and rubbed her thumb over it like that might help her memory.

“I really should start calling her Lady Dominique,” Syd said to the empty room. “We may meet again,” but even as the words passed her lips she doubted it. The war would be the rest of her life. Syd lifted her medical bag, and movement had her grabbing whatever was about to roll off the bench. She studied it for a moment, confused because she didn’t recognize the object. It was a globe like the ones in the trees in Tizbeth’s night garden. She rolled the sapphire globe in her hands, taking dispassionate note of the green and white rings. It was overly feminine but well crafted. She wondered who would sneak down there and give

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” This quote, written by Douglas Evertt, is true because in Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist, the main character, Santiago, experiences several hardships in order to accomplish his dream of going to the pyramids in Egypt, but he also meets a few people who would prefer to live in a dream world. Throughout the novel, many examples of people either turning their dreams into a reality or living in a dream world are shown.

If someone would want to find their own personal treasure, would someone want to find it with the right people? In Paulo Coelho’s fictional novel, “The Alchemist”, Santiago, a shepherd boy in Andalusia makes a heroic journey to find his treasure and his own Personal Legend. After meeting a gypsy and a mysterious king, Santiago leaves his sheep and travels to North Africa. There he meets a crystal merchant, an Englishman, and the Alchemist himself. Throughout his journey, he experiences robbery, leads an army, and eventually uses alchemy.

She smeared her hands with her blood and then began smearing the wall with it. She drew a ward so that used a similar outer circle to the protection spells, but the three inner circles were copied directly from the bonds. The product was an amalgamation of the two that used the strengths of both. There was a beauty to the synthesis of the two magic, one she didn’t have the time or headspace to truly appreciate. She removed more lifeblood from herself, and staggered. She would die if she used any more without a runestone. Energy crackled around the surface of the ward, and the wall shimmered. The illusory magic dispelled from the wall, revealing a plain window.

The Alchemist is a journey of exploration and self-discovery as we follow the main character, Santiago, a young shepherd who lives in Spain, on a journey to fulfill his personal legend. The novel shows us wisdoms and gentle reminders of how to change our lives from what they may be today into the life we have always dreamed of.

Deep inside people want to fulfill their dreams, but they have to go on a long journey to fulfill those big dreams. In the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo a boy named Santiago travels a long way and has many obstacles he faces before he fulfills his dream. The Alchemist is similar and different from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost because in both texts someone goes on a long journey to get somewhere they want to be. In The Alchemist, Coehlo says, “The hills of Andalusia were only two hours away, but there was an entire desert between him and the Pyramidst” (Coehlo 64). Frost says “And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” (Frost), and this is similar to what Coehlo says because they both go down a path