By reading the story about the journey of Santiago in “The Alchemists” of Paulo Coelho, make me feel about my journey of moving in the USA.I felt the importance and the connection between me and Santiago journey and look like there are very uniform.. I saw how Santiago was change from the beginning to the end, he turned into a hero, the hero of his story, where he was just a simple shepherd and only want to travel around the world. Santiago has to learn a lot of thing during his journey, and he listened what the other says to him, for example when the alchemist says, "There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey." (The Alchemist, 132) learns us how easy it sometimes seems …show more content…
The king give a message about the dream “the secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon’” (Coelho 32). His message to Santiago reminds him that by following his dream he will be seeing beautiful things and people, but that he should always remember the reason of his travels. If he stays on the correct path then the oil on his spoon should stay there from the beginning. The king led Santiago in the right direction towards his dream, but has also teach about how his travels is going to be. I like to consider him as a hero because we saw him how he crossing the Mediterranean Sea and leaving his homeland. He doesn’t know anything about the place, people and the language of this place. The fear was the first obstacle that everyone feels when is in a strange place and need to defeat for realizing their dreams, this I use to feel during my journey. I saw this fear in Santiago that follows him and struggle before and during his journey of achieving his personal legend. Santiago was kind of brave who overcame his problems with his bravery and patient. When his father told him he cannot travel he was smart with the coins that give his father he find a way to gain money for his journey. For me, it was different my family helps me to pay for my journey and agreed with e to move to the USA. He was stolen and beaten during his journey, …show more content…
He say that to listen to his heart because by listening he will know its fears, wishes, and dreams. “The heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say” shares the alchemist, and that is just what Santiago chooses to do (Coelho 134). So, over the course of crossing the desert the alchemist teach Santiago about why the world exists, and teaches him a valuable technique of being able to listen to his heart and following his dream. Santiago learns at the end of his journey where his actual treasure was the journey itself because it teaches him that by following his dream he felt the experiences of a true love, having new friendships and clarification of his characteristics. Santiago learns, that following his heart is necessary when trying to reach his
Coelho contrasts tradition with Personal Legend to illustrate the individual nature of the pursuit to discover one’s goals and dreams. Tradition stands as a very powerful force that makes Santiago hesitate his quest to fulfill his Personal Legend. The fear of breaking tradition holds people back from living true to their dreams since, “We always observe the tradition” (Coelho 107). Tradition involves practices of older generations and the following of already trodden paths, in hopes of reaching already achieved goals. Meanwhile, the concept of ...
Santiago is a shepherd trying to pursue his personal legend. His personal legend is the recurring dream about the hidden treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. In his dream he starts playing in a field with his sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. This was strange to him because sheep are afraid of strangers, but the sheep and children play along just fine. Then a child grabbed his hands and took him to the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He begins his journey locally trying to find answers from a gypsy and a man named
Coelho incorporates many internal struggles into Santiago’s life in order to prove that they don’t restrain people from achieving their personal legend. Through the use of the hero’s journey, Santiago faces many internal struggles such as when he attempts to understand
Santiago had been rewarded with the treasure earned when completing his journey, “In my dream there was a sycamore growing out the ruin of the sacristy… there were precious stones, gold masks adorned with red and white feathers.” (Coelho 170). Santiago was able to accomplish his personal legend, which he had to go through many stages in the journey that got him closer to completing his goal. In this final stage of his journey was a good thing to accomplish, because he’s gone through all of the stages that had been placed there to challenge and see if he actually wants to accomplish it, so he did not give up and gained trust in himself to keep going. This is an important part of the journey because this had taught him to not give up and trust in his heart to accomplish his personal legend, such as when others believe that it is hard to accomplish what they want to complete and do in their life.
The knowledge and universal understanding derivative from a journey can leave the traveller positively enlightened. In Coelho’s story, Santiago is faced with recurring dreams which lead him to ‘’traverse the unknown’’ in search of a treasure buried in Egypt, the metaphor for universal connection, and in doing so, comes to the unrelenting realisation of spiritual transcendence. After arriving at the assumed geographical location of the treasure ‘’several figures approached him’’. They demand the boy keep searching for this treasure as they are poor refugees and in need of money, but as Santiago does, he finds nothing. Then, after relentless digging through the night ‘’as the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy’’ , finally relenting with the truth, Santiago reveals his dreams to the travellers. In doing so, Santiago finds out that these men had also been faced with recurring dreams measured around the place where the boy had undergone his own, both relative to hidden treasure. However the leader was ‘’not so stupid as to cross an entire desert just because of a recurrent dream’’. It is with this fact, tha...
First of all, the author shows that through persevering through adversity anyone can achieve their dreams. During the book Santiago continuously faces problems that he will have to overcome to achieve his Personal Legend. In this scenario, Santiago is in the city of Tangier when he is suddenly robbed of all of his money, by a thief who promised to take him to Egypt. However instead of thinking of himself as a victim of a thief he decides that “I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure” (34). Santiago was able to persevere through a situation that many people would not have been able to overcome and not able to continue their journey. Being able to persevere through
This final test will be the biggest our hero faces and will require the culmination of all the knowledge gained throughout their adventure, termed the Supreme Ordeal. In the case of The Alchemist, the Supreme Ordeal is when Santiago is forced to somehow turn himself into the wind. “‘What is an alchemist?’ he asked, finally. ‘It’s a man who understands nature and the world. If he wanted to, he could destroy this camp with just the force of the wind.’ The men laughed. They were used to the ravages of war, and knew that the wind could not deliver them a fatal blow. Yet each felt his heart beat a bit faster. They were men of the desert, and they were fearful of sorcerers. ‘I want to see him do it,’ said the chief. ‘He needs three days,’ answered the alchemist. ‘He is going to transform himself into the wind, just to demonstrate his powers. If he can’t do so, we humbly offer you our lives, for the honor of your tribe.’ ‘You can’t offer me something that is already mine,’ the chief said, arrogantly. But he granted the travelers three days.” To accomplish this feat, Santiago needs to pull together all of his knowledge on the inner workings of the Soul of the World, part of which had been gained through his first two trials, otherwise he would forfeit his life. Even though Santiago set out with the goal of finding a forgotten treasure, that
"If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear ideals of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.” That is one of many deep quotes that makes the reader truly think about life in The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho. The book is about a young boy named Santiago, who loves travel and adventure, but he does not have the money to do so. He was raised to be a priest, but decides that he would rather be a shepherd, so that he can travel. Santiago’s father gives him two spanish coins, and tells him that he will learn one day that no place is as beautiful as the one he lives in. It seems like Santiago’s father believes in him, but not the way Santiago wants him to.
At the beginning of his journey when he first set foot in the continent of Africa, he meets another man, who ends up robbing Santiago of all his money, which left him discouraged and he began doubting his decision. He ends up using the two stones given to him by a king, and he regains his inspiration and decides to continue on in search of his "Personal Legend". Another example of a time Santiago began abandoning his dreams was when he began working at the crystal shop in Tangier. He began building a comforting life with a routine. For about a year, Santiago put off ideas of achieving his goals, and he succumbed to the temptation to give
Santiago is a heroic figure because he was always kind to others. He was always helping someone with something. For example: when Santiago was working at the Crystal shop, he helped the Crystal Merchant, improve his business. When Santiago was leaving the Crystal Shop, the merchant stated “You brought a new feeling into my Crystal Shop”(61). The Crystal Merchant is talking about how much Santiago has changed his business. Santiago has helped the merchant’s business by making a display case to put outside the store, cleaning all the crystal and adding new things, such as the tea. Santiago also helped an Englishman by helping him find the Alchemist. The Englishman wanted to speak to an alchemist. The Englishman stated “I need you to help me find out where the alchemist lives”(90). Because the Englishman requested for help, Santiago helped him. It took over half a day to find the alchemist, but fi...
The first two obstacles that Santiago faces are that his father tells him he can not do something that he wants to do and that he wants to pursue his personal legend, but he does not want to hurt those that he loves. For example, Santiago’s father said, “The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can afford to travel. Amongst us the only ones who can travel are shepherds.” Everyone is told by their parents and friends that everything we want to do is impossible. Since Santiago did not have money to spend to travel his only choice was then to become a shepherd to fulfill his desire. T...
The Theme of “The Alchemist,” by Paulo Coelho is, always follow your dreams and listen to your heart. At the start of the novel Santiago does not know what he should do when he is confronted by his dream. But by the end of the novel Santiago completely trusts his heart to guide him though life. Santiago’s story shows him learning and living out the theme of the novel.
To begin with, the fear of losing beloved things or people presents people with dilemmas that influence the continuation of their journey and they can only bypass these dilemmas by getting rid of the fear altogether. To begin, Santiago’s fear of losing everything he already earned makes him second guess his plans and therefore discourages him to continue his journey. Santiago expresses his doubts by stating that his “‘heart is a traitor…it does [not] want [him] to go on.’ ‘That makes sense,’ the alchemist answered. ‘Naturally it [is] afraid that, in pursuing [a] dream, [a person] might lose everything [they] [have] won’” (Coelho 145). Throughout the novel, Santiago learns to always listen to his heart, but in this situation if he did, it would result in abandoning his journey. The alchemist encourages Santiago to move on from this fear by stating that it is normal to feel scared, but not normal to give up on a dream because of a feeling. Santiago’s best solution in this situation is to conquer his fear of loss altogether and erase the doubts in his mind for a smoother journey. Next, the fear of losing life in the midst of the journey makes Santiago wonder if it is appropriate to risk his life to pursue a dream. Santiago learns how to handle this situation as “the camel driver had [once] said, to die tomorrow [is] no worse than dying on any other ...
In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho continuously shows how Santiago conquers fear and is greatly rewarded for it. In order to get his treasure and achieve his personal legend he must first travel through the well-known dangers of the desert. It is an extremely expensive trip that many do...
In the book the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago’s call to adventure was to travel the world , experience life, and find his hidden treasure. This meant he would stop at nothing until he achieved so. This troublesome stage is a period where santiago is tested to grab his dream before it leaves without him.“I’m not going to charge anything now, but I want one tenth of the treasure if you find it.”This stage was very confusing for Santiago because he didn’t know why or how foreign people knew about his personal legend. Santiago chooses to pursue his legend due to a fortune-seer’s knowledge. This significance of this stage so prominently prone to santiago’s view from the inside, he finally chose to go because he knows that everything happens