Book Summary: The Alchemist

The Alchemist The Alchemist was a great book about a young boy, Santiago, who wanted to travel the world. In the beginning of the book Santiago’s family wanted him to become a priest, but Santiago wanted to travel the world. Santiago’s father told him that the only people that travel the world are the rich and shepherds. When Santiago heard the information he then told his father he will become a shepherd. In response to his son’s decision, he gave his son one gold coin to buy his flock of sheep. As time went on Santiago began having a dream, a dream that he kept having. Eventually he met a merchant that he sold his wool to once a year. The boy had fell in love with the merchant’s daughter and the next year the dream was finally going to

And when he wanted to pay and leave, the fortune teller said instead of paying me what little you have find the treasure and when you do I will take one fourth of it. Later that day he met a man who claimed to be a king and traded two emeralds that were not worth much for his flock of sheep. Once he had lost it all and realized that he had gotten scammed he climbed a hill and found a crystal shop where he then ended up working at for a year. He had helped make the shop thrive with his ideas and eventually made enough money to buy many flocks of sheep and still make it to Egypt. Once he had decided to go to Egypt, on his voyage with the caravan they ended up stopping in a desert town. While in the desert town Santiago met a girl named Fatima and once again fell in love. Soon after he went on his voyage to the pyramid’s and found his treasure, but he was then robbed and was left with nothing but his two useless emeralds that he had only used once. The Alchemist talks in its own way, it is a very well put together book that has and uses many literary devices. One of the many literary devices that is heavily used was irony, such as “He thought that, with some patience, he’d be able to transform everything into gold”,