Order of Santiago

of Santiago Matamoros mounted on his white horse, with the infidels beneath his hooves. Point Of View, pg 73. “The Alchemist” is told in the third point of view, meaning that the narrator is not necessarily a character in the story. Therefore, the reader does not know how Santiago truly feels or thinks because he is not the one telling the story. The narrator writes how he acted and what he did, but we could not imagine how he truly felt. In “The Alchemist”, the point of view is not Santiago himself

were problematic and realistic. Some just decided to go achieve their dream rather than wishing they would someday. Santiago has had dreams of going to finding a hidden treasure at the Egyptian pyramids, but has always had self-doubt that he would ever reach it. Then he meets, Melchizedek, the Old King from Salem who tells Santiago that he has discovered his Personal Legend. Santiago learns a lot from the King about Personal Legends and how some

describe the life of Santiago, the main character of Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist. As a young boy he leaves behind his father’s idea of becoming a priest to follow the path of a shepherd, which he later abandons to follow his personal legend. Through the perspective Santiago’s journey, Coelho suggests that in order to further one's self, one must believe in self, believe in others, and a struggle with their belief. In the novel The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho suggests that in order to further one's

young shepherd named Santiago. The protagonist experiences a dream that advises him to go to the Egyptian pyramids in order to find a hidden treasure. Throughout his journey, he encounters significant people that helps him to find his treasure, such as the king Melchizedek, the crystal’s merchant, the alchemist, and Fatima. In order attain it, he needs to find himself and learn through the experiences life offers him. As every protagonist in their respective story, Santiago has to transcend through

undefeated”Hemingway develops Santiago as a hero in order to show how fragile things can be strong in the inside.Even Though santiago seemed like a weak old man, while he was alone at sea trying to catch a fish;he demonstrates how strong,positive,and undefeated he is. While santiago is in land he is a fragile old man and depends on the boy. “The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair of the old man’s shoulder”.When santiago is at sea he has no one to depend

motivated him to whatever he had to do in order to achieve his personal legend. Fatima, the girl he loved, gave him the necessary love and support that he needed in order to continue on his journey. Without the intelligence, determination, and love that Santiago possessed, his journey would have been much more difficult than it was. Intelligence helped Santiago to understand many different subjects, but the most important being learning about the soul

Vicario brothers kill him in an attempt to restore their sister Angela’s honor. Angela’s honor was lost when she was returned by her husband for not being a virgin; she named Santiago Nasar as her perpetrator. Throughout that Monday morning the Vicario brothers went around telling the towns people their intention to kill Santiago Nasar. Many of the people didn’t believe they would do it so they chalked it up to drunkards talk, but others believed it was the Vicario brother’s duty to restore their sister’s

In the beginning of part 2, Santiago is still fishless, save the albacore he caught, but his hopes are high of hooking into a giant marlin. While watching one of his lines, he sees one of his green sticks, used to indicate a fish bite, dip sharply. Slowly easing the line in his hand, Santiago waits for the fish to eat the bait again. Holding the line delicately in his left hand, he removed the green stick so the fish would not feel any tension when the line ran through his fingers. Patiently, he

Marquez uses the symbolism of animals in order to describe the impact of power in each gender. Understanding how each gender interacts with one another allows the reader to see the function of power in the Colombian society. During the novel one sees Marquez bestowing the power to Placida Linero while he devaluates Santiago and represents transitions him to the lowly status of an animal. The interaction between Placida and Santiago is seen as one of a master and servant. By placing the power on

This is where the Santiago, is from. This location is where he travels with his sheep as a shepherd. Santiago travels these towns and villages to sell his sheep products such as wool. In Andalusia there is a church where he visits to sleep. Andalusia is a great environment for his sheep it has lots of open fields of grass. Santiagos sheep follow him becuase he helps find them food and water. All the sheep do is look for food and water and they are content with that. Santiagos sheep symbolize people