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Santiago's Symbolism In The Alchemist

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Santiago's name was mentioned once in the beginning of the book, and it was introduced as a Shepherd with 60 sheep. Santiago met a king, from there he decided to pursue his personal legend, or his goal in life. Santiago is 16-years-old, Spanish boy at the beginning of the book, who attempts to learn from anything he can, like his sheep or the desert.The conflict in the story is with Santiago needing to perform to keep himself alive, this man vs. self conflicts occurs when Santiago is debating on whether he should continue with his journey or end it. However, this certain problem was resolved earlier, when Santiago told himself if he failed, he can go back to being a Shepherd; if he died during the adventure, he would die on a journey to realize …show more content…

All of the supporting characters have met Santiago at some point in his journey, and many attempt to help him in different ways. The fortune teller is a major supporting character who’s the one that launches Santiago off to on his journey. He had gone to to the fortune teller to ask about his future life, and when he was is going to meet a merchant and his daughter. Sadly for Santiago, the fortune teller is a Gypsy who asked for one tenth of his treasure, once he returned from his journey. In Part 2 of the book Santiago is headed to North Africa, where he ages and works at a crystal shop, after being robbed by a Spaniard. Throughout the story it’s been his ambitions that allows him to move on when unfortunate events have happened to him, but his personality changes through the story because had he not have been a calm person, he might have not met the king; the king expressed to Santiago at one point that he knew that shepherds appreciated kings the most. Santiago's ability to read omens and communicate with the Soul of the World helped him in the journey it allowed him to not lose his path with the personal

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During his journey, Santiago receives knowledge that he treasures and uses on his behalf when he hopes to achieve his personal legend. During his time with the Crystal merchant Santiago learned the five sacred obligations of all Muslims, and he learned that the Pyramids were not nearly as close as he thought when he arrived in Africa. During his time with the Alchemist he learned how to find life in the desert, and how to

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By continuing he finds his true inner strength. In the story, the author shows the importance of perseverance, and how to face the many obstacles that people are presented in their lives to complete their goal. In Coelho's novel, Santiago faces many difficult challenges, but because of his courage and perseverance, he is able to face them head on. While in the town of Tarifa, Santiago meets

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Santiago also discovers that the Soul of God is also his very own soul. He realized that he could make his very own miracles, just like the Soul of God. The Soul of the World showed Santiago that he has a true destiny like everyone

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Although Santiago loves his sheep and is devoted to them, they hold him down and stop him from fulfilling his true potential of achieving his personal legend. Sheep are obstacles in Santiago's emotional journey because he has to detach himself from something that has always been there for him. Through this emotional journey, Santiago learns that you have to sacrifice things in the past to gain more satisfaction in the future, which shows that journeys teach us about ourselves and the world. Personification is also utilised in The Alchemist and is shown in the quote, '...and that a certain shrub was a sign there was water in the area. The sheep had taught him that'.

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In Part one Santiago could be described as weak character. He is easily manipulated and persuaded by others such as the gypsy and the tour guide he met at the bar when he first arrived in Africa. His hunger for money blinds him from seeing his

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He is robbed at the beginning of his journey and must work hard to earn back the money he lost. Then, he is able to travel into the desert, facing more peril along the way. This is where he meets the Alchemist, who tells him, “You must not let up, even after coming so far” (113). The wise man teaches him things unknown to most people. With his instruction, Santiago survives his travels in the desert, even while faced with war and threats of death.

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For a few years, he grows very close and familiar with his beloved animals, wandering the pastures of his country, Andalusia. He then has a reoccurring dream that causes him to believe that he should find treasure hidden beneath the Egyptian pyramids. He goes on his way to sell his sheep so that he may have enough money to travel to Egypt. After selling his livestock, his money is stolen from him and Santiago is in despair and dreading the idea of starting over, or worse, returning home empty

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To further exemplify, Santiago becomes a Shepherd whose dream is to travel the world instead of becoming a priest as his parents wanted. He begins his journey when his father supportingly gives him coins to help him travel, he set toward Andalusia, Spain, along with his flock of sheep. He used an abandoned church by a sycamore tree, as shelter, where he had recurring dreams of treasure in the Egyptian Pyramids. He continues his journey to sell his flocks wool to a merchant, which excited him to see the merchant 's daughter who he said he was in love with.

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Santiago was in fear that there wasn’t a war coming and that he might die. Later in the book Santiago was asked to turn himself into the wind. The Alchemist said “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” (Coelho 144)

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During the whole story Santiago is trying to find his personal legend, he is trying to find his purpose in life. Therefore in the Alchemist, the most important thing is personal legend. Everything is based off Santiago’s personal legend, if he wouldn’t of became a shepherd the book wouldn’t be all about him following his personal legend and trying to figure out what his was. Santiago has to figure out a bunch of new things that lend his to his personal

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