Santiago The Alchemist

In “The Alchemist” Paulo Coelho asserts, “The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.” Throughout Santiago's allegorical journey he focuses on the centrality of fulfilling his personal legend by undertaking difficult tasks that will question his tenacity to preserve in the face of adversity. For instance, in order to embark on his quest to the treasure he must relinquish all of his sheep to travel a great distance to reach the pyramids in Egypt. As a result, once Santiago sacrifices materialistic possessions the window of opportunity broadens by casting a series of small serendipities that reveal the purpose behind his creation. Through his encounters with Melchizedek he unveils that Santiago’s youthful dreams will later be discarded as he ages if he does not actualize his current propelling desires to travel to the pyramids. Later on, as one becomes older their personal legend will delude them from their young wholehearted hopes of bringing their life’s work into completion. Thus, the soul of the world is comprised of the common people who had the sheer everyman heroism to realize their written destiny which feds the universe with happiness from having achieved the plan that originated from the creator himself. Additionally, Melchizedek serves as an emblem when a

A passage from the novel that demonstrates the central theme is, “ The boy rode along through the desert for several days,

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.

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.

However, over the year he had worked with the Crystal merchant Santiago became successful. This instance is an example of his growth through the fear of defeat because he is able overcome the fear of having nothing and being alone somewhere far from his home by becoming more successful with the merchant. Scared of the Tribal chieftains’ opinions, Santiago is afraid of warning them of an attack he saw through an omen. , “The oasis chieftain called for the boy, and presented him with fifty pieces of gold… and asked the boy to become the counselor of the oasis” (117). After seeing the vision of war through the flight of the birds, Santiago is caught between his fear and his chance to prevent an attack. This is significant because Santiago is able to ignore his fear of being embarrassed in front of the chieftains. As a result of him setting aside is fear, Santiago is rewarded and becomes more confident as he takes more risks. Finally, as Santiago and the Alchemist are caught by the war tribe, Santiago is tasked to turn into wind. After pushing away his fears, the time came for him to turn into wind. Santiago spoke with the desert, sun, wind, and God himself, and as

When Santiago arrives in Tangier he is robbed by a thief and is forced to find work from the locals. He meets a crystal merchant and gets hired to work for him. Santiago convinces the merchant to take some risks in his business. This advice pays off and Santiago becomes a rich man in just a year. Santiago stars to gain confidence in his decisions and decides to use his earning to pursue his personal legend. Santiago soon joins a caravan crossing the Sahara desert and meets an Englishman who is studying to become an Alchemist. On the trip Santiago and the Englishman don’t converse much but Santiago still ends up learning a lot

The book I read is called The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist is about a boy from Spain, whose name is Santiago and is a shepherd. The book tells how he gets around countries, and how he deals with his problems and how he solves them. It shows how he follows his dreams, and who helps him along the way.

He gets robbed a couple times, he is delayed by a tribal war taking place in the desert, and he gets captured in said tribal war. After the first time he gets robbed, Santiago has to work at a small crystal shop. This delays his voyage but he ends up making a sum of money for himself and the owner of the shop with his ideas on how to sell the glasses. When he finally starts to get to Egypt he is stopped in a desert oasis due to a war going on in the desert, this delays him again from getting to his treasure, but there is where he meets Fatima, his true love, and is also named counselor of the oasis after he saves it from an attack. Almost to his destination, Santiago and the Alchemist both get captured by one side of the war.

“People are capable at anytime in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” In the novel The Alchemist, Santiago goes on a journey to find and fulfill his “Personal Legend”. Santiago displays admirable traits throughout the book. Throughout the novel, Santiago faces obstacles that he could have never imagined happening to him but he pushes through them with determination and persistence. This most beneficial trait allows him to find the best way to handle situations and overcome his problems.

Santiago,the boy who was born in a priest’s family and was put up to become a priest.But ever since he had been a child,he had wanted to know the world ,and this was much more important than knowing about God and learning about mans’ sins.He summed up courage and told his father that he want travel all over the world and learn.He is a humble shepherd whose desires are few–he wants to be free to roam with his sheep, to have some wine in his wineskin and a book in his bag. Fate intervenes, however, in the form of the recurring dream of a great treasure hidden thousands of miles away at the base of the Egyptian Pyramids. When Santiago meets melchizedek, a strange wise man who claims he is a king from a far-off land, he decides to seek his treasure. The next day, Santiago sells his sheep and embarks to Africa to pursue his dream.

When santiago leaves for his Journey, his mental challenge is that he has to leave the love of his life, Fatima, behind. He will miss her dearly and it is hard to tell if his journey will be successful and if he will even make it back alive. Even though santiago does not want to go He knows that “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” (Coelho 55) His physical challenge is having to travels weeks and weeks in the hot scorching Sahara Desert with nothing to do but walk.

Santiago knew his Personal Legend was to find the hidden treasure at the pyramids. On his quest, he crossed the desert during a war, left Fatima (his love) and turned himself into the wind. When the boy did not know how to turn himself into the wind the Alchemist said “Then you’ll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That’s a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.” (Coelho 146) Santiago had now conquered many struggles to work toward completing his Personal

The shepherd boy went to search his treasure, following his personal legend. He gave six sheep to the old man The king of Salem for the directions of the treasure. The boy learned many lessons in her way to find his treasure. For example, one story of the book was about a tradesman who teach a boy the correct way to find the happiness. The message that the story was trying to teach the shepherd was that he never has to forget where he come from, and what he had before because that is his real happiness. In his way, the boy met a young boy that stole all his money making him do a promise to himself. “I promise that I’ll make my own

He lets fear rule over him, for he is afraid to make changes and travel to Mecca. At the beginning, Santiago, a shepherd met a woman in Tariff who interprets dreams. He suspects she is a Gypsy as he thinks he overheard her pray a Gypsy prayer. As a child he was frightened to be captured by Gypsies.

When Santiago sells his sheep based on what the old man told him he shows this theme In the book. He sells his sheep, the only thing he has to get money to travel to egypt. So he takes a risk and loses everything he owned to pursue something he did not know was true. Santiago takes this risk because he is very curious about other lives so Santiago decides to leave