The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

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.

This is one of the ways to overcome obstacles like a genius. We must not wait for outside support when we want to pursue our dreams. We can dig deep and find all the answers that we need to keep going. The difference between a genius and an ordinary person is revealed by what they do when they hit a roadblock. The power to become all that we want to be lies within our soul. We can unleash a huge amount of positive energy when we stay excited about what the future holds for us.

As the author said, sometimes the fate can be changed by choice you make. It encourages the reader that it is always possible to change and fix destinies before it is too late. One important quote that the author wrote is, “This book is meant to show us how... our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path , or a tentative step down the right one." (Moore xiv).

The Alchemist is a novel first published in 1988 by Brazilian-born author Paulo Coehlo. It has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling books of all time, and has been translated in over 60 languages. The book follows an adventurous shepherd boy named Santiago who has recurring dream leads him on a journey to find hidden treasure. The book begins Santiago has the same troubling recurring dream, when sleeping under a sycamore that grows out of the ruins of a church, of a child telling him to seek treasure at the base of the Egyptian pyramids. After a gypsy tells him to go to Egypt once hearing his dream, a strange old man appears, claiming to be the King of Salem, tells him it is his

When someone has the right motivation, anyone can overcome adversity. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a boy named Santiago is on a journey to find his personal legend with the help of many characters. Consequently, he develops into a well-rounded person from the obstacles he overcomes. Coelho explains that if an individual persists in dreaming about a “treasure,” not only should one search for it, but also learn from the journey. This comes into act when Santiago is constantly in search for his desire. The author shows how Santiago defeats the challenges he must face in order to get to his treasure. As well as meeting other characters to help him alongside with his travels.

In the book called, “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” Written by Dr. Suess; the message he is trying to explain is that we have to make it our day to shine, you might not find a path right away that you're supposed to go on, but you will make your own special path that's fit just for you. However, there's going to be bumps in that path; people will leave you when they see you struggle. Sometimes, you will not want to get back up again.You will be frustrated and you’ll be in dark places that you won't ever want to be in, but, you have to keep pushing forward. You must push forward in order to get out. In the end it all works out, everything happens for a reason and it's your time to go move mountains, inspire others, inspire the world!

In the book The Alchemist, the crystal merchant and I have different spiritual dharma. I’ve always set goals for myself to reach. It’s something that drives me and motivates me to keep going, and when I reach the goal it is the greatest feeling in the world to be successful at your end goal, because I know that I’m gonna have another goal after that; however, the crystal merchant it the opposite. He is afraid to fulfill his spiritual dharma by not wanting to complete his five obligations. He is afraid of change, and what would happen next after his goal is completed.

Sometimes, in life we lose everything that we deem as important so that we are able to find out what truly is. The two works that I’ll be examining correspond to this statement. By examining the works Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and The History by Herodotus, we can see that being happy in life doesn’t always come easily and there are some bumps along the road to get there. Siddhartha shows us that in order to achieve the happiness that we want, we have to look at the life we are living at the moment and decide if it is what we really want. And The History also shows us that in order to achieve the happiness we want in life, we have to reflect on the life we’ve lived and make a change. Siddhartha and Croesus teach us that the obstacles we face are the stepping stones

However, if we choose to give up on ourselves in the middle of the journey just because we have low self-esteem and do not believe that others can support us, we can never be successful. Hence, only the person who endures throughout the journey and believes strongly in hope is qualified enough to be successful.

There are many obstacles in everyday life, but none as detrimental to ones future as fear. Fear can cause people to not only avoid achieving their goals in life but it also forces them to think about it throughout every day. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist shows that those who wallow in fear will never achieve their personal legend, and those who conquer fear will achieve anything they strive for. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is a commonly analyzed and criticized piece of literature. One of these articles is Rejendra Kumar Dash’s “Alchemy of the Soul: A Comparative Study of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist”. Dash’s article is a literary criticism of the different parts of the character’s journey in The Alchemist.

Marcus Kopp Mr. Vetter AP English 12 5 May 2016 Searching for Riches Many people know what their Personal Legends are and some have even achieved them. The novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is about a boy named Santiago searching for his Personal Legend. The novel is set in the Middle East, Spain, and The Great Pyramids before the time of cars and modern technology. In The Alchemist, Coelho uses the story of the quest for riches by Santiago to convey eternal themes of love, dreams/hopes, and fears.

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho starts off with a shepherd boy named Santiago. He grew up on the countryside of Andalusia with his herd of sheep. They traveled far and wide, all over the region seeing new sites and meeting new people. He had been having the same reoccurring dream that haunted him for some time now so he decided to go into the village of Tarifa to visit a Gypsy woman that could interpret dreams. He explained his dream to her and she said that he must go to Egypt and search for his treasure by the pyramids. He nor the gypsy knew what his treasure was or how to find it but he must give her a portion of his findings to the gypsy. Santiago then met an old man, the king of Salem to be exact. The king told him the same exact thing the

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Personal Perspective is how an individual view the world around them, different people perceives different things and that could shape their personality. In the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a boy who is a shepherd tries to seek a treasure in which he sees it in his dream. There are many obstacles that he has to overcome, he met numerous individuals along the way and learned valuable life lessons. People may grow differently depends on how they perceive the world, and if the way they comprehend the world changed, they could also change who they are as a

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