Themes In The Alchemist

The Alchemist depicts a story of a humble and youthful shepherd named Santiago, who is looking for a treasure beyond his wildest dreams, or his Personal Legend. The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho shows the many difficulties in not only realizing, but also having the strength and stamina to follow your dreams. Paulo Coelho tackles big and complex universal themes in The Alchemist, however these themes are explained uses simplistic ideas and events in the book. This is why, perhaps, The Alchemist

legend and dreams are primary themes for Santiago, the main character in the novel, The Alchemist. Throughout the book these themes are represented in his quest to find his purpose in life, achieving his personal legend, and learning to do what he loves. In Santiago’s quest for his purpose in life he discovered some life lessons. He found it is important to follow your dreams, but along the way your plan may turn out different then you thought it would. In The Alchemist the King says, “When you want

The Alchemist is about a young shepherd who has a recurring dream of finding treasure. He then goes on a long journey with many obstacles, but finds the treasure years later back in Andalusia, where the adventure started. Themes give The Alchemist insightful thoughts that connect to the modern world and people. The story is simplistic and easy to read, but the messages require the reader to interpret the story in their own way. The characters and settings provide a more detailed description of looking

Becoming a better self The Choral Poem called The Alchemist, have a comparable theme as the book The Alchemist, as a whole because they both reflect the importance of taking something and make it not better but the best version of itself. Turning lead into gold. Transforming something useless into something indispensable. In the book, Santiago reflects the theme in many differents ways. One ways in which santiago reflects the theme is when he meet the crystal merchant and helped him in the shop

book ‘The Alchemist’ a big theme in the book is that everyone should live their life trying to complete their Personal Legend. This affects everyone in the book at one point or another. Throughout the book, you following the journey of a man, Santiago, trying to follow his personal legend and learn to follow the omens of the earth that are trying to lead him to his treasure. In this essay I am going to be saying how the theme was realistic, how the theme was problematic, and how the theme is shown

The Alchemist 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 novel tells the story of a young pastor called Santiago, who decides to pursue his dreams. At the beginning of the novel the young man has a sheep business, with which he traveled everywhere, and thanks to which he obtained money with which he could live, but little by

The value in the journey is a theme that you can identify with Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago and the obstacles he faces on his journey to his treasure. Santiago starts out as a shepherd before he decides to leave and travel to find his hidden treasure. There were times throughout the book that he didn’t know the reason for his journey and didn’t want to finish it. It was during these times that he realized all the valuable things he had learned up until

In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, there are multiple prominent themes. The book talks of omens, treasure, and many other physical things as well as ideas, such as the Soul of the World, the Language of the World, and Personal Legends. The most important and relevant theme in The Alchemist is perseverance. Without it, the rest of the story would have no purpose. The main character, Santiago, perseveres through many obstacles that he encounters on his path along the way on his journey to

The most important theme in The Alchemist is the theme of faith because the young shepherd boy, Santiago, did not lose his direction and lose his faith that he will find the treasure even it might not even exist. Just like Melchizedek revealed to Santiago: “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” (Paulo Coelho 24), Santiago traveled around the cities, and being deceived and force to work in a crystal merchant, involved in tribal wars, even met a beloved girl

The Alchemist: Literacy Challenge #2 Throughout The Alchemist novel, there are several themes. Love is one of the themes that Santiago comes across throughout the novel. In his journey to find his personal legend, he comes across lust and love. At the age of 16 Santiago living in a small village has a dream of traveling the world to visit the pyramids. He then mentions it to his father, he was not too happy about Santiago decision to be. His father Said, "Amongst us, the only ones who travel