In the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the boy tells the sun that every person is destined to find their Personal Legend and that love is what helps to nourish the Soul of the World and it helps us to strive to be better than who we are. Without either of these, the world would be very static. In the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel’s Personal Legend is to learn how to read. Before she came to live with the Hubermans, she could not read very well. “‘Here.’... ‘Read some for me.’ But of course, she couldn’t.” (Page 56-57) Liesel worked very hard to read and even started to steal books and people wrote books for her just because she yearned for them so much and wanted to know how to read. It is not quite like the journey that