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Santiago's The Alchemist

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The Alchemist wants Santiago to understand that all of God's creations took the same care and effort to make, so through studying anything, be it as small as a grain of rice or as large as the vast ocean, Santiago will be able to understand the beauty of creation. This is not unknown to Santiago, as his whole journey, he has looked to animals or inanimate objects to guide him, and foster growth in his knowledge of omens and magic. Throughout Santiago's journey he has learned how to speak the universal language and understand the soul of the world by observing - observing everything, be it a grain of sand or the entire medina. Early on in his journey Santiago remarked that he "usually ... learn[ed] more from [his] sheep than from books", as
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These are some of the last words the Alchemist says to Santiago before they part ways. He explains to the boy why he had to undergo tests and trials in order to fulfill his personal legend. Santiago endured many hardships, but it all started with "beginners luck. " His first trial was when he was robbed of all his possessions, and it ended with having to turn himself into wind. These tests were put in place to have Santiago ace the lessons he had learned along his journey.

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While people come in all shapes in sizes, underneath it all we are still flesh and blood. Even if people have a different skin color or orientation we are all humans living on this earth. This idea, no this fact was really driven home to me when I was traveling with my family around the world. We met people in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Ecuador and though they looked and talked different they had the same needs, concerns and wants. I found a quote by Santiago, a boy in The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho that really explains this better than I ever could, “I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything in the universe.

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When Santiago was with the Alchemist in regard to his personal legend, he told him that he was at the end of his journey, and that Santiago just needed to learn one more thing. However, just because he was in the desert, he would learn it through his journey and not as an Alchemist in a laboratory. The Alchemist was with Santiago for a big amount of time during his path, and helped him to overcome every circumstance telling him that, “Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey” (129). Meaning that Santiago is searching for his personal legend, and that to be found, Santigo has to put his effort into it. During all that process Santiago had found love and learned thanks to his mentor, the Alchemist, and his

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The thought of viewing different towns and countrysides appealed to him greatly, and it was no surprise when he decided to pursue after him dream. Being a shepherd allowed him to do so, which is why you see him become one. The significance of this however is the fact that Santiago is stepping away from his old life and is ready to take on whatever his new way of life has in store for him. Here he matures and you find him listening to his heart, an important virtue the alchemist emphasised when Santiago was under his guidance. 4.

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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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A lot of people are searching for their personal legend and some have already achieved it. Your personal legend is the purpose of your life, or what you are meant to do with your life. Some people fulfill this quest and others never do, either by ignoring it or by not being willing to put in the effort. In the alchemist, a boy named Santiago fulfills his personal legend, by crossing the desert with the help of many people along the way. Have you ever had a passion to do something in life, like win a trophy or build something.

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The theme of personal legend is a reoccurring theme that is very important to The Alchemist. Santiago’s personal legend is to find his treasure at the Pyramids in Egypt. The crystal merchant dreams of going to Mecca. The Englishman’s dreams of being an Alchemist. Santiago, the crystal merchant, and the Englishman all show the theme of personal legend.

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Santiago gets more than just the treasurer he was looking for when going to egypt on his journey in The Alchemist by Panlo coelho. In this story a boy named santiago goes on a journey to egypt with a lot of life lessons on his way to find his treasurer he was looking for. Santiago’s journey, especially the alchemist , the crystal merchant , and fatima demonstrate that the pursuit of the Personal Legend, not the actual outcome, is more rewarding.

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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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Santiago is woken up by a man at the next day when people began to set up shop. Santiago helped the man set up is candy shop, he game Santiago a candy, he accepted it and went on his way. He met this crystal glass seller upon the top of a hill surrounded by other shops. Santiago didn't know how to communicate to the glass seller that he wanted to clean his glasses in exchange for food. The merchant allows him to clean his glasses and then tells him in spanish that he didn’t have to and that his bible of his religion and his bible the Quran.

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I identify with Santiago from The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. He is a young boy with an unknown future ahead of him. He has a dream to leave his secure life as a shepherd and travel hundreds of miles across the Sahara to find a hidden treasure. At first, he is unsure about pursuing his dream, but over time he commits to it and goes after it with all his heart. He realizes that it is more important to follow his dream rather than be afraid of what the uncertain future holds. Although he encountered some obstacles, Santiago continues on and didn’t let anything stop him from reaching his dream.

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ONCE UPON A TIME……………... As children, when those magical words are spoken to us, we begin to REMEMBER and unknowingly reconnect with the truth about ourselves deep within our souls * (For a summary of Coelho’s The Alchemist, go to the appendix at the end of this book.) This truth is that here on Earth each of us is a dream; a dream waiting to become a reality.

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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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Now we come to the Alchemist, someone focused on the things of this world, even with his amazing knowledge and wisdom. A much less subtle clue to the Alchemist’s intentions is the wine outside his tent with Santiago. The wine is forbidden by the local religion, but he’d rather have the material wine bottle than respect a spiritual religion. Even after he explains that the wine

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