The Alchemist: I change my mind too much. I could relate a lot with the main character, of the book The Alchemist, named Santiago, who was a shepherd that did not want to become what his parents wanted him to be, which was a priest, because they were just a simple farm family. And I thought what he did was interesting, which is a journey to the Egypt, to find the treasure he saw in his dream. I think he wanted to experience new things, which is what I can relate to, and is what I'm interested to. I do not have a future dream or things that I want to do to live. So being very free is kind of what I want. In the book, Santiago’s father said people that visited Andalusia, where they lived, came to see new things and they say they would like living there forever, but when they leave, they are basically the same people they were when they arrived. Of course I will have my favorite place if I travel the world, but I still think it could be better than just …show more content…
In the book Ishmael were taken away from the wild and put in a zoo, but then he was rescued by a Holocaust and was taught how to communicate. He spent most of his life in captivity, such as zoos and menageries, and he thought that humans are also living in captivity. Because he learned about human things, how he think about the world became very different from what he would think when he was in the wild. For me, I used to be in Japanese school and when I was in fourth grade, I started going to international school. I think I was nervous at first, because how we learn, play, talk, and just everything was different. In japanese school, we do not really learn about presenting things to the whole class, or to the school, so how I think about things changed. I used just think what I think is right, was right. I might still do that, but right now, when I think about a problem that is bothering me, I talk to people and discuss about