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How Is The Alchemist Changing Time

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Time and space are two variables that are capable of changing a story in its entirety. The Alchemist takes place in a pre-modern period, somewhere in the 1800’s in various locations like Tangier, Spain and the pyramids of Egypt. There weren’t any automobiles, airplanes and telephones around to assist Santiago on his travels as a shepherd and communication. If Paulo Coelho, the author had chosen to change the settings of the book to a modern time period such as the 20th or the 21st century, the Alchemist could have been a completely different story. Santiago wouldn’t have struggled as much with getting to Egypt if he had lived in a modern era. He could have actually taken a plane to Egypt by earning money while working for the crystal merchant

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