The Alchemist Reflection

‘’ The desert will give you an understanding of the world; in fact, anything on the face of the earth will do that. You don’t even have to understand the desert: all you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will se in it all the marvels of creation.’’ (127)

Another lesson from the story is to follow your heart and to follow your intuition and understand that the journey to finding your Personal Legend comes with challenges, nothing in life is attained easily, you have to work for it but the reward in finding your destiny is so much greater than the challenge because it is all a constant learning cycle. Yes, you will be tested and there will be times when you may want to throw in the towel and question yourself but you must persevere. “It almost seems impossible until it’s done”. Nelson

The third and fourth obstacle Santiago faces is his fear of defeat and realizing his dream. For example, “They made him continue digging, but he found nothing. As the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy. He was bruised and bleeding, his clothes torn to shreds, and he felt death was near.” The obstacle he defeated was the fear of defeat people will meet on the journey to fulfilling our destiny. People have to be patient in difficult times and know that the universe is conspiring in our favor, even if some do not know. Santiago had patience and allowed the men to beat him. Because of his patience they eventually left him alone

“You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one,” Laura Prepon. Santiago, the main character of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist leads a modest and ordinary life as a shepherd. Santiago travelled constantly, exploring the Andalusian terrain. In his travels, Santiago met a woman who interpreted his dreams, and told him his treasure would lie in Egypt at the pyramids. However, Santiago believed that the dream interpreter was a phony, and he continued to herd his sheep. Soon after, he exchanged words with the King of Salem, and Santiago was once again told to venture to Egypt in order to find his treasure. After careful consideration, Santiago sells his precious sheep and begins his journey. An alchemist, somebody who turns lead

1. How can we learn from Santiago in the Alchemist and apply it our own life?

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 Santiago was in the pyramids then he was robbed again by the thieves that brought him to a near death experience.

“Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls. People will go through the journey of life. The life is not a destination but a journey. As people go through, they learn, experience, and gain. The journey of the life matters because the people can earn experiences and those experience makes people better.

In conclusion, I believe that this quote is very important in life. It is about getting in touch with your own soul. In The Alchemist, they reference the Soul of the World. The Soul of the World is within everyone, you just have to look hard and you will find it. Within your soul there is a desire or a want. One must listen to that desire and pursue it for how ever long it takes. This desire is your destiny and your own Personal Legend. You just have to know where to

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern, they   were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn’t feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.”- Andrew Kreisberg. In the novel The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, it talks about a boy named Santiago who goes on a journey to realize his Personal Legend.  Santiago has proven, throughout the novel, that he is a hero. Essentially, themes that are portrayed through heroism are a sense of determinization & realization, the hardships, and the fears he faces in life.

The greatest key takeaway that we found is given by Melchizedek. His point was to never give up. No matter how hard a situation “may be, give it your all. It may be hard at first, but as time continues on one will see that it gets easier and feel a sense of reward”. That is how Santiago felt. There is a variety of reasons why Santiago could have not followed his dream, but he does. He travels from city to city in search of this great treasure. During his journey he had many different people help him along the way. This story shows how a person could gain from a journey while still following a dream.

The Alchemist book and the Henri’s quote are right delivering the message that having courage to face fears, confidence in itself, and determination to continue are important to determine a person’s fate. As Santiago, that at the final found his personal legend because he never gives up although he had to face many obstacles in his way. Every person can achieve and choose what they want in their futures and begins with having those three things. Nobody can limit or choose the destiny of others, we have to choose what we want because live is just once.

The only life Santiago knew was being a shepherd, but one day he made a decision that he wanted to know more. He wanted to get out of Spain and see the rest of the world, and from there the rest of the story develops. The same goes for all of us, in that the rest of our stories are based on the decisions we make today – we decide to be better, we decide to be happy, we decide to be successful. It all starts with that decision.

Santiago, who is a shepherd boy from Andalusia, was sleeping near a sycamore tree in an abandoned church when he had a dream of a child who tells him that he will discover a treasure at the pyramids of Egypt. He told a gypsy about his dream and she told him that it is a prophecy and he should follow it. Then Santiago meets an enigmatic old man named Melchizedek, or the King of Salem. Santiago learns about good and bad omens from him and that it is his responsibility to pursue his Personal Legend. Melchizedek also gives him two stones called Urim and Thummim to interpret and read omens. Afterwards, Santiago sells his herd and buys a ticket to Tangier, in Northern Africa. Not long after he arrives, a thief steals all of his money and he finds a job in a crystal shop where he makes many

The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson's four extraordinary comedies. The most earliest recorded execution of the play happened in Oxford in 1610 by the King's Men. In The Alchemist, Jonson unashamedly ridicules the imprudences, vanities and indecencies of humanity, most quite eagerness prompted credulity. Individuals of every single social class are liable to Jonson's heartless, sarcastic wit.