Everyone is on their own path in finding and or completing their personal legend. In the book “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho, the author introduced us to a boy named Santiago who is on his own journey finding treasure. In his journey we witness Santiago in the beginning not believing in his legend and only wanting to be a shepherd and traveling around the world. Along his way Santiago kept meeting older people who spoke wise words to him from their own personal experiences.The old king was one of the wise people who had spoken to him before and the one who he remembered and influenced him the most to chase his legend. The only thing in between Santiago and his legend was a desert in which he didn’t know if it was going to be his friend. …show more content…
Each journey has a unique path that we could only notice when we don’t focus on the things that have and haven’t happened. Coelho uses the protagonist Santiago as a young man who’s just started his journey and is placed with the alchemist who was already about to finish his journey so Santiago could absorb some of his wisdom. For example the alchemist told Santiago in the beginning of his journey “Don’t think about what you've left behind…Everything is written in the soul of the world and there it will stay forever.”( Coelho 127). This was Coelho’s way of expressing to the reader how you can’t worry about your past and present when you are on your journey as what's meant for you will stay being yours.The alchemist also went on to tell Santiago “And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot the lead, copper and iron have their own personal legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the personal legend of another thing never will discover his own.``( Coelho 142) Coelho used this to show and tell his audience that in order to achieve your legend you can’t just focus on one thing. You have to be focused on the moment and how you can become a better version of yourself. It’s not just all about achieving one thing, it's about leaving the desert as a better person and taking all the little things that might not seem as valuable as the big