The Alchemist

Although Ender and Santiago's stories were not alike, they both shared the attributes of a hero's journey, like the call and the mentor stages. In the book Ender's game, Ender demonstrates attributes of a hero's journey, one of which, is the mentor stage. Colonel Graff realized early on in the book that Ender was special. The quote took place towards the end, when it became more and more obvious that Ender was the one.

Some may refer to The Alchemist as a best-selling novel written by Paulo Coelho which explains the ideas of having a dream, or Personal Legend, and going through obstacles to conquer it. The book starts off like any other, introducing and describing the main characters, in this case Santiago is the first to share the interest of peers reading the story. He is said to be a small town shepherd boy who will do anything for his flock of sheep. In the opening scene of the story, Santiago takes his flock to an abandoned church and lies down under a sycamore tree hoping to get some rest. He is soon woken up from a disturbing dream which foreshadows further into the story of his own Personal Legend. Later in the book, Santiago is faced with multiple tests to be successful in finding his treasure. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure” (Coelho 15). Paulo continues to add characters in the book that help Santiago throughout his journey.

Do you know your personal destiny? This is the question which Santiago the protagonist of The Alchemist tries to answer on a search for a treasure. The question which will be attempted to answer is, What literary element does Paulo Coelho us to develop the theme that in life everyone has a personal destiny which they all have to pursue when they get the chance, in the novel The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho conveys the central theme of pursuing your own destiny through the use of allusions, in how they affect the protagonist Santiago with his encounters in the desert on the search for his treasure.

The novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a story based on a young boy name Santiago, who travelled around the world as a shepherd to follow his own dream of searching for an unseen treasure in Egypt. In order for Santiago to undertake his desire, he must leave his family. After the boy left his home he confronted himself with many complications on the route, but he triumph over them with the support of numerous people. As Santiago has learned about the forces of the universe, he knew that in order to find happiness, the one must have first fulfill his personal legend. However, on his mission of completing his personal legend Santiago made many mistakes, but today I will be describing three of

He soon began to experience a relationship where he communicated with his heart. When traveling across the desert, Santiago's heart stopped thinking past. Instead it thought of the soul of the desert. Wherever his heart was, there would be where he found his treasure. He would have to trust in his heart to make his

Although a hero seems like a faraway distant character who possesses a unique ability that saves humanity, an everyday citizen in society holds the ability to impact the lives of others can become a hero. In the novel, The Alchemist, the protagonist, Santiago, travels as a shepherd but ultimately, follows The Hero’s Journey Archetype. As Santiago pursues a journey for treasure and self-knowledge, Santiago faces several difficult challenges and character-defining moments that assess his ability to succeed. Coelho depicts Santiago as following the stages of the Hero’s Journey Archetype such as The Mentor, The Abyss, and the Return to the World. Thus, Coelho employs The Hero’s Journey Archetype to demonstrate the

The Alchemist is, without a doubt, one of the most important and well-known works of the fantastic Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. Among the main themes of the novel we highlight the development and personal growth.

The alchemist is a well written book that accurately describes every concept about life and explains it through a story. The Alchemist is a book about a shepherd named Santiago, who discovers his personal legend and receives help from others to help achieve his Personal Legend and learns many major life lessons along the way. Santiago gets advice that when life puts him down, keep getting back up and to focus on the task at hand, which is Santiago’s own personal legend. Along the the journey, Santiago receives help from many different characters but only three characters who helped him the most throughout his quest for his Personal legend is the alchemist, the Old King and the Englishman. The best advice a reader is able to gain from this story is the advice the the Old King taught Santiago, which is” there is only one thing that makes achieving a dream impossible to achieve, the fear of failure” which means is to never be afraid of failures and to follow your own path God has laid out for you because if you are too afraid to pursue your personal legend, meaning if people are too afraid to take risks to make their own life better than it already is now, then they will not have the opportunity to accomplish their own goals. In Coelho's The Alchemist, Santiago learns the Soul of the World through experience, patience, time and help from the Old King, the Englishman and the alchemist.

Throughout the book, Coelho addresses the attractive quality and the sense of security that wealth and acceptable social status bring. Nevertheless, he also illustrates that one must reject the lure of riches and reputation in order to attain one’s highest potential. At first, Santiago ignores his dream to travel to Egypt because of his strong desire to earn back the money that he has lost due to the robbery. As such, Santiago becomes employed at a crystal shop and works “incessantly, thinking only of putting aside enough money so that he could return to Spain with pride” (62). Instead of saving his money for a trip across the Sahara desert to pursue his dream, at this time, Santiago wishes to return to Spain to become a shepherd once again. Here, Santiago is tempted to permanently settle down and live among people. Furthermore, Santiago also encounters a group of tribesmen and becomes a prisoner along with the alchemist. When the alchemist gives up all of Santiago’s gold, Santiago gets upset and says “You gave them everything I had! Everything I’ve saved in my entire life!” (141). Santiago is frustrated because he has saved up enough to live a life luxurious back home. Although Santiago’s sacrifice of wealth is unwillingly done by another individual, it allows him to continue his path of becoming his Personal Legend as it spares his life. By sacrificing his earthly desire and obsession with fortune, Santiago’s

(Coelho 166). Coelho shows the readers that even though Santiago had a lot of challenges on his journey he still found many great things from his journey. Along his journey, Santiago learns the language of the world, meets Fatima, sees the Pyramids, and learns many other important lessons. This is also true about anyone’s personal legend. Every legend is different from what the person learns or sees on their journey but every legend will help that person in some way.

Last year I got woman’s MVP for track, a title I worked day and night for, a title I not only hurt my body to get but had to go through tedious and intense physical therapy for, and even though this was an award I wanted so badly ,that my body went numb when my name was called, I looked to the back of the room for my boyfriend, because he is the one who truly makes me happy. Forget about the awards, the first place medals, yeah they were nice but nothing compared to the happiness he gives me. In Paulo Coelho’s novel the Alchemist, a young man named Santiago leaves his  shepherd life to follow his personal legend, which eventually leads to him finding his treasures. The thought of a personal legend is important to the world because it keeps

At the start of the novel, we meet Santiago; an Andalusian shepherd with a dream of finding treasure in the Pyramids of Egypt, yet does not know what he should do when he is confronted by his dream. But by the end of the novel Santiago completely trusts his heart to guide him through an incredible journey. The theme of Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist, has shown to be: “Do not give in to your fears”. Santiago’s story helps get the theme across to the reader as he overcomes

The book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho touches on many different points of a young shepherd’s life as he grows to learn to follow his heart and dreams. A debatable statement that was developed while reading this book is “love should never hold us back from pursuing personal dreams.” This idea is supported and brought up multiple times throughout the story, as the shepherd, Santiago gives up the things he loves most to pursue his dreams. At the beginning of the story, Santiago prepares to reunite with a girl he had met over a year ago.

Santiago is a shepherd in Andalucia. He loves his flock, but they can't notice the limited nature of their existence. Seeking only food and water, they never lift their heads to admire the green hills or the sunsets. Santiago's parents have continually struggled for the basics of life. Santiago, on the other hand, can read and wants to travel. He goes into town one day to sell some of his flock, and encounters a tramp-king and a Gypsy woman. They urge him to 'follow his omens' and leave the world he knows. The Gypsy points him towards the Pyramids of Egypt, where she says he will find treasure. Crazily, he believes her. He sells his flock and sets sail. Sure enough, disaster is met early on when a thief in Tangier robs him of his savings. But

In The Alchemist, Coelho examines the concept of the personal legend, that is, the destined path that each person should take to achieve the greatest happiness. In the story, a young shepherd boy is sent on a journey to find his own personal legend. On his quest he experiences failure, confusion, hope, love, fear and learns along the