How Is Santiago Presented In The Alchemist

Santiago changes in many ways. He changes from worrying about the future, to not worrying. He learns that

'Suddenly, [a] child took me by both hands and transported me to the Egyptian pyramids' (page 13, Alchemist) Santiago explains, thus exposing the second aspect and giving our quester somewhere to go. Number three, 'a stated reason to go there' (page 3, HTRLLAP), is exposed along with aspect two. Santiago continues telling his dream, the child telling him that 'if you come [to the pyramids], you will find a hidden treasure' (page 13/14, Alchemist). Money and treasure are big motivators in literature, helping Santiago in making his decision to quest or not. That's only half the battle. The biggest reason stated is our quester being 'jealous of the freedom of the wind' and that with this quest he 'could have the same freedom' (page 28,

What makes a hero be a hero? A hero has to have certain characteristics, such as; bravery, wisdom, etc. No matter what characteristics are pointed out, every story has a hero, or an archetypal hero. From a short stories to really long novels, you will have some type of hero. In the novel The Alchemist, the main character Santiago is a hero. The book is about how everyone should live their dreams and never give up on them. It follows a young man named Santiago who is following his own dream, or his own “Personal Legend”. It follows him and his struggles to achieve said Personal Legend. Santiago is a hero because he is wise, kind, and brave; He is also a hero because he displays characteristics of an archetypal hero..

In The Alchemist, Santiago goes on a journey to find his personal legend and learns to understand women and the world. Santiago is a shepherd who transforms into a wise individual. He encounters many symbols and faces them to reach his personal legend. Three ways he changes are by meeting the Englishman, the crystal shop owner, and the Urium and Thummin.

Santiago’s growth was inspiring to me. He has learned a great deal from action. He learns quite a lot about the land and his sheep by being a shepherd and paying attention to the world around him. His grandfather had mentioned to him a while back of an omen. “By traveling, watching and paying attention, the world will speak to Santiago to help him find is Personal Legend.” Through action, Santiago learns how easy it is to search for one’s Personal Legend. Everyone has their own way of learning things. For example when Santiago decides to try reading the Englishman’s book and he would try and read the signs of the desert. The boy does not learn a thing from the book and the Englishman learns nothing from watching the caravan. Just as Santiago

In my opinion Santiago, a shepherd boy from Andalusian town, changed the most in this novel. In the beginning of the story he was scared to trust in himself and follow his dreams. Santiago goes to the extent of searching for help from a gypsy. She tells him his meaning of his own dream and instead of trusting her he seeks another opinion. He goes on a journey across the Sahara to reach the Alchemist. When he asked The Alchemist how to turn himself into wind and he doesn’t get step by step instructions he is forced to trust his own judgement and intuition and believe in himself to figure it out. At the end of the story, he encounters a robber who talks to Santiago about his dream and why he would go on a journey across the Sahara. Santiago realizes

Some people in the book assisted Santiago on his guide, but the Alchemist inspired him to not give up. He said, ‘“At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to

Matthew Price Mrs. Martin English 4/21/2024. How Did the Mentors of Santiago Affect His Life? In the parable, The Alchemist, Paul Coelho demonstrates how Santiago's mentors affect his day-to-day life until he's ready to go off alone. Santiago's mentors play a large role in this book, because he couldn’t have found his treasure without them.

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it,” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. Everyone has an impact on someone’s life, some greater than others. In The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago meets several people on his journey to find his treasure, however, the person who made the biggest impact on his life is Melchizedek, King of Salem; he convinced Santiago to go on a journey to find his treasure, and he taught him how to read and follow the omens. King Melchizedek has greatly impacted Santiago’s life.

In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago a shepherd will go on a journey to the Pyramids with the help of two stones named the Urim and Thummim, in order to pursue his personal legend. Santiago possesses two stones that will offer him a sense of reassurance, wisdom and direction while on his journey. Before Santiago starts his journey he meets a man named Melchizedek who claims to be the king of Salem. The man beings to tell Santiago he must pursue his personal legend. He offers Santiago two stones that he claims will help him read the omens if hes unable to.”

The Alchemist shows spiritual growth throughout the novel. In my opinion, I do not see how spiritual growth and organized religion clash. Spiritual growth is how you grow as a person. It can be in any fashion: travels, reading, talking, sleeping or anything. Throughout Santiago’s journey, he did grow spiritually. He learned from his travel experiences and from his books. Growing up his parents wanted him to become a priest and grow in an organized religion. Instead he became a shepherd and grew in a different way. He grew in knowledge from books and friends. The crystal merchant’s “personal legend” is to go to Mecca. However it is the thought of Mecca that keeps his wheels turning everyday. An organized religion has its own way to

In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago is faced with a personal problem of discovering what his personal legend is. Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd living in an abandon church in Spain with this reoccurring dream of his personal legend. Throughout the book Santiago is going on this adventure cause that is what he believes will help him discover his personal adventure. In the book The Alchemist, Santiago shows that anyone can achieve your personal legend no matter what.

In order to achieve happiness, one must be willing to verve an enormous measure in order to do great wonders, such as to take a journey of a lifetime. In the novel The Alchemist, Santiago’s journey led him to the Egyptian pyramids, in which he found his personal legend. Santiago’s instinct and perseverance pushed him to achieve his goal, accentuating a similar travels and aspirations in the non-fiction world. Within the news article “Man Completes Epic 26-Year, 550,000-Mile Road Trip Around the World in One Unbreakable Car” the journalist Sumitra depicts the last 30 years of a man who traveled to far out places in order to obtain the ultimate achievement of happiness by taking road trip around world. Gunther Holtorf, a poor Bavarian citizen,

The Gypsy women tell Santiago to follow his dream and go to Egypt. Santiago, still not confident about going to Egypt, meets a man claiming to be the king of Salam. This man echoes the dream interpreter’s opinion and tells Santiago that it is his personal legend to journey to the pyramids and that he should sell his flock of sheep and set off to Tangier. This man said, “…people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” (23) This shows that you just have to have confidence and you can do what you dream of. Santiago takes the man’s advice and sells his flock of sheep and goes to Tangier.

14) Earlier in the story, the alchemist told Santiago "when you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed." At the end of the story, how does this simple lesson change Santiago’s life? How does it lead him back to the treasure he was looking for?