Throughout everyone’s life, there comes a time when they will have a dream. No matter how big or small everyone has or had a dream. This novel teaches the reader to follow their dreams or personal legends. The author gives the thought to let their heart take them on a journey. There will be people who want to help others meet their dream while others who only hope to see others fail. This novel has multiple hidden meanings all throughout for the reader to find and interpret. Santiago taught others that dreams will never come easy for no one. Throughout the novel, there are multiple symbols that represent something important. Some symbols include: alchemy, the hawks, the sheep and the pyramids. To begin with, a big symbol portrayed throughout …show more content…
The author uses animals to give the impression of the unspoken language. In addition to important symbols, the hawks symbolize the language of the world. This was when Santiago began to realize his gift. The hawks also symbolize aggression “one of the hawks made a flashing dive through the sky attacking the other” (Coelho 100). This was the first time Santiago had a vision, through the hawks he saw the army coming to attack the oasis. He was not sure if he really wanted to have this ability. Because of his gift he was able to save the tribesmen from their fate, he was able to save the oasis. Similarly, the sheep symbolize the reason Santiago was able to go on his personal legend. The selling of the sheep is what helped Santiago pay for his trip to Africa. The sheep also represent his normal life back in Spain. “But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood” (Coelho 62). His sheep taught him the language without words. This was important for him because throughout the novel, this ability helped him understand the unspoken language of the world. Being back in Spain with the sheep represented a sense of comfort, it was what he knew. Santiago knew that he could always turn back around and forget the idea of a treasure and return to his sheep back home. “If God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man, he thought, …show more content…
The pyramids were old they had a lot of meaning and promise for Santiago. “The boy stood up shakily, and looked once more at the pyramids…because now he knew where his treasure was” (Coelho 163). Additionally, this quote not only shows the end but how much he went through to get to the pyramids. Santiago reacted in a way of relief when he reached the pyramids because he knew how far he came. Santiago took a trip all the way to the pyramids to find out what his dream was. “When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed” (Coelho 134). This quote explains that even though there is great treasures no one will believe until they know personally. Furthermore, Santiago realized what his great treasure was, he was an
"The First Part Last" has many authoritative symbols. All people, no matter who they are, have symbols that represent them and how they have changed throughout their lifetime. Throughout Angela Johnson's book, the main character Bobby had many moments that alternated the way he thought, saw, and reacted to things, and these each moment had a symbol that represented it.
'Suddenly, [a] child took me by both hands and transported me to the Egyptian pyramids' (page 13, Alchemist) Santiago explains, thus exposing the second aspect and giving our quester somewhere to go. Number three, 'a stated reason to go there' (page 3, HTRLLAP), is exposed along with aspect two. Santiago continues telling his dream, the child telling him that 'if you come [to the pyramids], you will find a hidden treasure' (page 13/14, Alchemist). Money and treasure are big motivators in literature, helping Santiago in making his decision to quest or not. That's only half the battle. The biggest reason stated is our quester being 'jealous of the freedom of the wind' and that with this quest he 'could have the same freedom' (page 28,
In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, there are two different symbolic actions. The characteristic are how the germans loved to burn down things and how Liesel can hate the Germans for burning down things. The action to this, is how the germans loved to burn things down. On page 84 it mentioned “The Germans loved to burn things. Shops, synagogues, reichstags, houses, personal items, slain people, and of course, books.”
One way the author reflects the hopes, fears and expectations of the culture in the book was through Antonio’s dreams. Antonio’s dream reflected several of his most difficult cultural challenges including his parents conflicting aspirations and the towns conflicting religious beliefs.
In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago began a quest across the Sahara Desert in search of a hidden treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago is obviously our quester: a young boy, determined and enthusiastic about learning everything that he can. His destination is also clear: the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago must travel across the Sahara Desert from Andalusia to Egypt, spanning approximately four thousand miles. The stated reason for traveling to Egypt was to obtain a hidden treasure mentioned in Santiago’s recurrent dream about a child showing him a hidden treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. On the way there, Santiago met and overcame many difficulties. He was swindled by a thief and lost all of his money; involved himself in violent tribal wars; was apprehended by Arab soldiers; received brutal beatings. In the last part of his journey, Santiago learned from his attackers that the treasure was located at his home, where it all began, in Andalusia. The real reason that Santiago
Award-winning and movie-prone novels incorporate many literary devices, and these methods empower the story to a new level. In this case, one of these devices is symbolism, and The Book Thief is an extraordinary example that contains symbolism. There are three overlapping symbols in The Book Thief, and these symbols are bread, an accordion, and books. As well as the differences, the list of similarities between these symbols continues on forever.
We start the book with a Shepherd boy, named Santiago. Santiago was originally from a small Andalusian town. He originally studied in a seminar to become a priest and join priesthood. However he felt that being a priest would not be suitable for him, and told his parents about how he wanted to become a shepard. In Section 1, he tends to his sheep, and talks about how the sheep were mindless. They only had one worry in life, and that was food. Santiago begins to have dreams with miscellaneous messages encoded inside. Perplexed, he then seeks out a “Dream Interpreter” to help decipher his dream. So he meets a gypsy who agrees to help him in return for money. She ends up not decoding the dream or charging the boy for her time. The Melchizedek,
Omens prove to be a valuable part of Coelho's masterpiece that guide Santiago on his treacherous journey and define a theme of the novel: one’s only task in life is to follow one’s personal legend. For instance, when Santiago, is in Tarifa, Spain after traveling with his sheep for hours to meet his crush, he befriends the King of Salem in the marketplace, who then prepares Santiago to follow his personal legend by stating, “In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you”(Coelho 29). Santiago
He was having the same dream for a few weeks, and he knew that the dream had some type of meaning. He dreamt of finding his treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago knew that he needed to find his treasure, but he also knew that he would have to leave a lot of things behind if he went on this journey. Santiago finally made the decision to go on this mission. During his journey, Santiago learned a lot more about what was affecting his life and the things he needed to do in order to find his treasure.
The Gypsy women tell Santiago to follow his dream and go to Egypt. Santiago, still not confident about going to Egypt, meets a man claiming to be the king of Salam. This man echoes the dream interpreter’s opinion and tells Santiago that it is his personal legend to journey to the pyramids and that he should sell his flock of sheep and set off to Tangier. This man said, “…people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” (23) This shows that you just have to have confidence and you can do what you dream of. Santiago takes the man’s advice and sells his flock of sheep and goes to Tangier.
What is symbolism? Symbolism is representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning. In “The Outsiders” there are many symbols that represent different ideas of the characters and novel
The protagonist of the novel is a young man named Santiago. Growing up in impoverished circumstances, but he always dreamed of traveling around the world. And he agreed to his father used his fortune to buy a sheep. However, in his dreams, Santiago often see images of a child led him to the foot of the Pyramids and say here buried a large treasure. So, he decided to abandon the sheep had been with her all these years to travel to Egypt in search of
Who the narrator is and where he stands in the social environment of their community allows the author to create magical realism as well. The genre of magical realism is what enriches the sense of time and helps the narrator tell the story after his return to unfold the truth of it all. This is shown through Santiago’s dreams, “He’d dreamed he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling,...”(pg. 3) the narrator states that Santiago’s mother's interpretations of dreams had earned her a reputation, “but she hadn't noticed any ominous augury in those two dreams of her son’s, or in the other dreams of trees he’d described to her on the morning preceding his death.” (pg. 4) Reminiscing on the past events and the misinterpretation of the dreams led the narrator to later say “Nor did Santiago Nasar recognize the omen.” (pg. 4) as if he wished that Santiago could’ve noticed the foreshadowing created by the dream.
The Alchemist , by Paulo Coelho conforms to the idea that everything is a symbol and that the meanings for a symbol can vary depending on the person that is interpreting them. This book is filled with symbolism from the beginning to the end. Every object referenced in the book was significantly symbolic. In the beginning, the scene is set at a giant tree outside of a church, which clearly symbolizes the religious and personal growth that will occur to Santiago. Later, Santiago works at crystal shop trying to make money to go home. His job in the beginning was to clean all the crystal objects. Crystals symbolize clarity and he cleaning the crystal objects in order to make them clean, therefore, if this is connected to his personal journey, he is bringing clarity of the situation to himself and in the and decides to continue the journey rather than give up. One of the more debatable symbols in this book is the desert. To some it may symbolize the hardship and tragedy due to its climate, but to others it may be a journey with rewards at the end. Continuing through every page of the story,
Santiago’s dream sequence mentioned at the beginning of the novella is one of the most significant symbols in the novella. He dreams that “he was going