Maktub's 'Meaning Of The Book The Alchemist'

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.

If Santiago is lost or confused during journey, he will always have Urim and Thummim to guide him and help him understand where the omens want him to be. They also act as a reminder that he cannot complete his quest alone and must call for help at times in order to be successful.

You can learn so much from going out and experiencing life and new cultures. The Alchemist is about a young man, Santiago and his journey to find treasure at the pyramids. He meets many new people and learns many new things. In the end he was able to grow in his knowledge of the world because he pursued his Personal Legend. In Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist he portrays literary devices such as symbolism and imagery to develop the theme that critical knowledge comes from life experiences.

Salman Rushdie once said, “The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin [word] for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.”

The book, The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, conveys many messages relating to life and society. The book outlines the story of a boy named Santiago who goes on a journey to the pyramids of Egypt, to find treasure. Along his way he learns about the concept of predetermined destiny, and the soul of the universe. One major moral shown within the book, is the idea that you should always pursue your dreams, despite minor obstacles, as you never know where it may take you.

Language is the skill created in order to communicate with others. In the essay “Translating Translation: Finding the Beginning” by Alberto Alvaro Rios, the author demonstrates his interpretation of language and translation. In “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass he explain his own hardships in trying to learn to communicate. Rios focuses more on translations of language, while Douglass expands on the struggle to learn the language. In both essays, the authors give their own experience with communication.

The Koran Interpreted, a translation by A. J. Arberry (New York: Touchstone, 1996). ©1955 by George Allen

In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the protagonist is a young shepherd named Santiago who longs to travel the world. He has a recurring dream about treasure in Egypt and goes on a prolonged journey in search of it. His treasure ends up being right where he begins, but it is evident that his voyage is essential to finding it because he learns crucial lessons about the world along his adventures. People that Santiago meets along his adventure help him and teach him about love and the Soul of the World. They encourage him to follow his Personal Legend and to never give up on it. Spain, the desert, the oasis, and other locations that Santiago must travel through produce complications that he has never dealt with before. Santiago must conquer his fear and overcome obstacles that are thrown at him. Coelho uses plot devices such as characters and settings to enhance the themes of love, fear, and Personal Legend and make The Alchemist a successful novel.

“Ideas require language and sometimes an idea or concept is hard to translate because the

Likewise, translation cannot be considered to interact with the reader, seeking to communicate the meaning of the original text as the content is not essential in our appreciation of the text. His question assumes the original and the translation as distinct categories, both of which, for him, are works of art. Apart from carrying messages and prolonging the value of texts, what is unique to translation is its potential to “express the central reciprocal relationship between languages”(72), its kinship to another language and its potential to bring out the pure language where the “mutually exclusive elements among languages can mingle and supplement one another” (74) and where ‘complementary intentions’ between two languages can be communicated. Therefore, the translator should not be restrained by the burden of relaying what the original means. Benjamin claims that “languages are not strangers to one another, but are, a priori and apart from all historical relationships, interrelated in what they want to express” (72).

In other words, it is when people use this image to show their approach and attitudes towards life in their community and in the world. Or as Lakoff and Johnson said concerning this subject: "a culture may be thought of as providing, among other things, a pool of available metaphors for making sense of reality”. The cultural approach of metaphors led Mandelblit to analyze the translation of metaphors from a cognitive perspective, which focuses on the cultural beliefs and values of the source language and of the target language, especially when it is the case between two very different languages. Arabic and English are languages that are very distinct and on several levels; on the linguistic and cultural level. However, even if both languages are different, the differences in economic, political and environmental factors among numerous societies may be completely important, human societies are connected by a similar biological history. The reality in which humans live is certainly not the same, but it is on the whole and large alike, as Chitoran

The Bedouins became the foundational symbol of Arab nationhood identity (Hoyland, 2001). They became the nationhood identity through their significant oral transmitted poetry and written Arabic literature, which became the basis and core language and humanity of Islam (Hoyland, 2001). The pre-Islamic poetry was very fine and unique, it became the linguistic standard of the interpretations of the Qu 'ran. It is noted that the

The Quran or Koran is the sacred text of Islam, believed to contain the revelations made by Allah to Muhammad. All Muslims study the Quran. The Quran is the final evidence of the Divine origin of the Prophet’s mission (Phipps, 9).

Maqasid is an Arabic word which means goals or purposes of Shariah. Shariah aims at the welfare of the people in this life and in the life here after, and for this purpose it adviced people to dopt such means and measures that may give advantage and benefit to them and to avoid evil and loss from them. Maqsid Shariah is divided into three categories which are educating mankind, justice and Maslahah. Under Maslahah, it is divided into three categories which are Daruriyyah (essential), al-Hajiyyat (necessities), and al-Tahsiniyyat (embellishments).

The second half of the last century have seen a great advance in translation field ( translation studies discipline ). Which make many translation scholars emphasis on the importantce of knowing the translation theory for the translators since the translation studies become a discipline.Mona Baker stats”