Figurative Language In The Alchemist

Throughout Santiago’s journey, he had several setbacks. As Santiago begins his journey to his treasure, he enters the continent of Africa and stops at a bar. Santiago then meets a man he thinks he can trust. After entrusting the entrusting the man with his money, Santiago gets robbed and never sees the man or his money again. After that experience, Santiago learns it is difficult to trust people. This was a the first of a few major setbacks for him. In Africa with no money, Santiago has to find a job. I think of that as a set back, it took Santiago an extra year to get to his treasure. Santiago worked for one year and when he gained enough money to continue his journey towards his treasure he moves on. Not too long after Santiago’s first

Another example of Santiago being characterized as seldom for possessing "treasures" of great value is at the Oasis, when the Chieftains and individuals see him as uncanny for interpreting omens of hawks fighting each other, and question in "Why would the desert reveal such things to a stranger...?" (page 105). It is not until after they listen to him that they realize that he possesses great abilities that will aid him in his journey and the people of the Oasis when conducting decisions. During both situations Santiago is also a little bit unaware of the great "treasure" he possesses of interpreting omens and it takes constant reminders from the advice he receives from many individuals for him to appreciate his abilities and take advantage of them to achieve his personal

Santiago is a shepherd that goes from place to place selling sheep and getting some in the process. One night he felt that he was made for more when he was laying looking up at the stars, so when he was on his journey he ran into an old alchemist but this alchemist wasn't like any ordinary one he was put in place to help santiago reach his personal legend. Santiago eventually told him that he wanted to go to the pyramids because he believes his “treasure” is there. On his journey he goes threw so many places

Santiago explains his dream of being transported in front of the Egyptian pyramids and being told there would be treasure there. The Gypsy encourages him to follow the instructions and find the treasure, and as such, Santiago obeys whilst travelling towards the pyramids. After months of travelling and meeting different people, Santiago settles at an oasis in the desert. There he meets various peculiarly dressed woman. A friend of his that he met along the way asks the woman if they knew of the alchemist. After a decline, she advises “the boy that he had better not try to converse with women who were dressed in black, because they are married women. He should respect tradition.” Santiago adheres to the land’s traditions and ignores the women dressed in black. After this encounter, the women are seen as guides that give advice to help others. If she would not have done that, Santiago and his would have been in trouble for disrespecting the tradition of the local women. However, because of the advice he is able to maneuver and avoid any sort of

After Santiago wakes up from his dreams ,he later decides to ask a gypsy what his dreams are about. The gypsy tells him his dreams in order to discover the treasure from his dreams he will have to travel to the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago started to get spectacle about the gypsy and the dream. He later met an older man named

A robber mocks him for following his idiotic dreams and tells Santiago about his dream about treasure at the sycamore tree that he slept underneath for all of these years and as a result he was able to return back home and find that the treasure was underneath the sycamore tree the whole time. This twist of events leads the reader to feeling shocked that the real treasure was underneath his nose the whole time. The resolution was that Santiago becomes rich and he returns back to the desert with the merchants to find his true love and find peace within the

The novel "The Alchemist" is a remarkable book written by Paulo Coelho, but translated by Alan R. Clarke. The story begins in a small abandoned church in the Andalusia countryside. Santiago, our main character, is a shepherd and travels throughout the southernmost region of Spain. While on his journey he has a reoccurring dream of a treasure, and decides to seek out the advice from a Gypsy and an old king. Both tell him that he must travel to the Egyptian Pyramids, but only the old king, Melchizedek, tells him that he is beginning to uncover his personal legend. As the story progresses Santiago is tested many times. For example, on page 20 as he is entering Africa to begin his journey all of his money is stolen and he is forced to work

Santiago feels alarmed because he has no idea how to turn into the wind, and over the next three days he contemplates the desert. On the third day, he communicates with the wind and the sun and coaxes them to help him create a tremendous sandstorm. He prays to the Hand That Wrote All, and at the height of the storm he disappears. He reappears on the other side of the camp, and the tribesmen, awed by the power of the storm and by Santiago’s ability, let him and the alchemist go free. The alchemist continues to travel with Santiago as far as a Coptic monastery several hours from the pyramids. There, he demonstrates to Santiago his ability to turn lead into gold using the Philosopher’s Stone. He gives Santiago a piece gold and sends him off. Santiago begins digging for the treasure at the pyramids, but two men grab him and start beating him. When Santiago speaks to them about his dream and why he is there, they decide he must have no money and let him live. Before leaving, one of the men tries to tell him the worthlessness of dreams by telling Santiago about his own dream. It concerns a treasure buried in an abandoned church in Spain where a sycamore tree grows. The church is the same one in which Santiago had his original dream, and he finally understands where his treasure is.

In the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago finds out that his personal legend is at the Egyptian Pyramids. He travels a very long and adventurous journey to then find out that his treasure was at the church, where he started off all along. Coelho ends the novel with this ironic realization to show the readers that Santiago's journey was never really about the destination but more about the journey. One of the people that helped Santiago grow the most throughout his journey was the crystal merchant. The two men talk about personal legends and the crystal merchant tells Santiago that he never wanted to make a pilgrimage to Mecca because, “it’s the thought of mecca that keeps me alive...I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason

Santiago, who is a shepherd boy from Andalusia, was sleeping near a sycamore tree in an abandoned church when he had a dream of a child who tells him that he will discover a treasure at the pyramids of Egypt. He told a gypsy about his dream and she told him that it is a prophecy and he should follow it. Then Santiago meets an enigmatic old man named Melchizedek, or the King of Salem. Santiago learns about good and bad omens from him and that it is his responsibility to pursue his Personal Legend. Melchizedek also gives him two stones called Urim and Thummim to interpret and read omens. Afterwards, Santiago sells his herd and buys a ticket to Tangier, in Northern Africa. Not long after he arrives, a thief steals all of his money and he finds a job in a crystal shop where he makes many

. Santiago comes upon the last obstacle in Egypt after he begins to dig for his treasure by the pyramids. While digging two men approach him and beat him up. Before the two men leave, one of them tells Santiago, "You'll learn that a man shouldn't be so stupid. Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too…. But I'm not so stupid as to cross an entire dessert just because of a recurrent dream" (Coelho 163). The man claims that he was once in the same position as him and he failed to find his treasure so dreams do not come true. Santiago triumphs over this obstacle by laughing about his shocking recognition of where the treasure essentially was. He returns to Spain to claim his treasure that was hidden below the tree that

Santiago stands over his discovered treasure and places Urim and Thummim in the chest as they are also a part of his treasure as a reminder of the old king who he would never see again. “It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny, the boy thought. Then he remembered that he had to get to Tarifa so he could give one-tenth of his treasure to the Gypsy woman, as he had promised. Those Gypsies are really smart, he thought. Maybe it was because they moved around so much”. And with that he began his journey back to Fatima.

Coelho emphasizes on the concept of perseverance to bypass external and internal conflicts in order to achieve self-discovery. Santiago is faced with adversity as an entry to his journey of self-discovery. A reoccurring dream about himself going on a journey to pyramids to discover treasure sends him to an old woman to interpret it for him. The old woman simply tells him to go to Egypt to discover the treasure which leads Santiago to disappointment and deciding he “would never again believe in dreams” (17). Through the point of view of being a young, impatient shepherd boy, Santiago felt irritated not getting a direct answer explaining the meaning of his dream. Santiago’s desires are surrounded by curiosity and the desire for adventure, thus, the answer from the old woman seemed to just confuse him, and lead him to uncertainty with what to do next. Although this was an internal conflict,

In this Chapter, Santiago is feeling like he is going to give up on the dream about the treasure. Santiago goes to the town plaza and sits down and drinks wine that he purchased. An old man approaches him, and it bothers Santiago because he wants to read his book. The old man says if Santiago will give him 1/4th of his flock he would tell him how to get the treasure. Santiago does not believe

Santiago has a few desires, he loves to roam with his sheeps while having a book in his bag. In his meeting with the Melchizedek who consider himself to be a king of a far off land, decided to search for his treasures. Upon arriving in Africa after selling his sheeps to pursue his dream, he faced many difficulties in his journey of searching for treasure. He was robbed off the first day and he can’t even speak Arabic. He became dishearted and decided to give up and return back but then he remember the words of the Melchizedek an continued his journey, He got a job in a crystal store and earned enough money to buy sheeps but rather than buying them, he joined a caravan to Egypt.