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    character, Santiago Nasar, dies. This novel slowly unfolds the incentives and means of the murder of Santiago Nasar. The Vicario brothers believe Santiago takes the virginity of their sister, Angela Vicario, and conclude the only way to regain the honor of their family is to kill Santiago. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, the author illustrates the Vicario brothers as honorable when they choose to murder

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    A Few Good Men

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    Kaffee 's car during the trial, revealing that Jessep never intended to transfer Santiago off the base as previously claimed but created the transfer orders as part of a cover-up long after Santiago 's death. Kaffee is unable to find evidence corroborating these claims and announces his intention to have Markinson testify. Rather than publicly dishonor himself and the Marine Corps, Markinson sends a letter to Santiago 's parents, blaming his own weakness for the loss of their son, outfits himself

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    life journey. Santiago had to give up many extraneous desires in order to

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    The Alchemist Destiny

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    book The Alchemist for example, which is amazingly written by Paulo Coelho. The main character is Santiago, an ordinary shepherd who lives in Andalusia. He has a recurring dream about a hidden treasure in the Pyramids of Egypt. In order to find out what his dream means, he meets many mentors and good people along the way that help him interpret his dream, including the Alchemist. They tell Santiago that there is an actual treasure that is waiting for him and that he should go after it. He then decides

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    said, “I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.” The novel Old Man and the Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago who has not caught a fish in 84 days. While at sea, he finally catches one, but it is lost to the occupants of the sea. Santiago is thin, gaunt, and has sun spots on his skin, but he has perfect eyesight and robust shoulders. Even though he failed in the end, the necessitous fisherman was a true protagonist for

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    there is an element of narcissism in following one's own Personal Legend. The definition of narcissism is excessive interest in oneself, and you have to be really in tune with yourself in order to figure out your Personal

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    1 Santiago, for his entire life, devotedly attended the seminar every day in order to become a Catholic priest. However, Santiago was not liked by any student in the seminar at all; fellow students perceived him as a brainwashed, Catholic dweeb. 2 Santiago had no friends, except for one aspect: grass. He talked to the grass about his depression that only three people love him: his mother, his father, and himself. Eventually, Santiago collapsed in fatigue and began to dream. 3 Eventually, Santiago

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    many internal and external conflicts in the novella. One of the main conflicts is that Santiago couldn’t catch the marlin. This is resolved by Santiago eventually catching the fish three days after he returned back to sea after he had an eighty four day unsuccessful streak; this solution is believable because he was determined to catch the fish which he did. A secondary conflict in this novella was that Santiago began to talk to himself because Manolin is no longer with him, also because he is isolated

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    story about Santiago, a young shepherd boy who longingly yearns to fill the missing void in his life as he sets out for his journeys. He is able to find freedom in himself and discover his “Personal Legend” through these facets of self-discovery and lessons of life learned upon his journey, Santiago is able to mature by virtue of coming of age journeys that change his perspectives on life. In the Alchemist, Coelho explores the reader to the character of Santiago; as an adolescent, Santiago pursues the

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    book a boy named Santiago learns to pursue his personal legend while learning about the world. He does this through a multiple amount of occurrences called omens which lead him through the book. Santiago meets a various amount of people in his journey. These people make the fate of the book and without them Santiago would be living a day by day life. The people that Santiago meet vary between a crystal merchant and an alchemist. Although there are many other people who teach Santiago different lessons

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