Personal Legend In The Alchemist

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How many people successfully achieve their personal legend? The Alchemist, a book by Paulo Coelho is about following and achieving your personal legend. A personal legend is the path taken or decided by a person which fills their heart with enthusiasm and satisfaction. According to the Alchemist, everyone has a personal legend. Those that follow it till the end, achieve it. Many people give up on their personal legend after a few failing attempts in achieving it or just don’t believe that it's possible to achieve. The story had many characters with a personal legend, however a few achieve it or tried to achieve it. Santiago the main character was a shepherd. Santiago had been traveling from village to village with his sheep. Whenever he slept under a sycamore tree near a ruined church he would have the same exact dream. In his dream, a child would tell him to go to the pyramids of Egypt in search of treasure. Santiago finally decided ask a gypsy about it. The gypsy advised him to follow his dream and asked for ten percent of the treasure. Santiago didn’t believe her until he met the old man on the bench who explained to him that this was his personal legend. The old man named …show more content…

Santiago faced a lot of difficulties in order to achieve his. When Santiago first got to egypt, he trusted the wrong person. A boy stole all his money, which he had gotten from selling his sheep. Santiago meets a crystal merchant when he had lost all his money. The merchant helps Santiago by allowing him to work for him. With Santiago’s help and ideas the Merchant started doing better than before. Santiago had a dream to travel to Egypt and find the treasure that he had dreamed of. The merchant also had a dream, however, the merchant was satisfied with what he already had and didn’t want more. Santiago had gone through a lot of situations and almost gave up on his dreams when he got robbed. He had no money to complete his

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