What Is The Purpose Of The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

Imagine the impact of helping someone when they need it. When you help someone, it can make someone’s day, or make them want to help someone else, including you. Because of this, not only you feel better but others will want to help you to. Characters who help someone will receive a benefit, even if they do not know it at the start. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago learns, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” First, good came after bad. Next, Santiago helps people who eventually help him. Last, important lessons make Santiago become a better person.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo is a story following Santiago,a young Shepherd from Spain. Santiago leads a simple life, travelling with and tending to his sheep. The boy keeps having this strange dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree at an abandoned church of a child telling him to seek his treasure at the foot of the Egyptian Pyramids. Confused, while travelling through Tarifa, the boy decides to consult a Gypsy about the meaning of this dream. This mysterious woman told the boy to go to Egypt. Strangely, the Gypsy hadn’t charged him anything. Instead, she told him that if he finds his treasure in Egypt, he owes her 1/10 of it.

In the story, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, a shepherd boy named Santiago has a recurring dream every time he sleeps underneath the sycamore tree that grows near the remains of a church. In his dream, a small child keeps on informing him that he will find a hidden treasure if he travels to the Egyptian Pyramids. So, Santiago asks a gypsy woman to decipher the meaning of his dream. She tells him to go Egypt, find the treasure, and bring her back a portion of the treasure. Then, Santiago meets Melchizedek, the King of Salem. He explains to Santiago about good and bad omens and says it is important to accomplish his Personal Legend. Melchizedek provides Santiago with two stones, Urim and Thummim, to help

One day a young Buddhist on his journey home, came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him , he pondered for hours on just how to cross such a wide barrier. Just as he was about to give up his pursuit to continue his journey he saw a great teacher on the other side of the river. The young Buddhist yells over to the teacher "Oh wise one, can you tell me how to get to the other side of this river"?

One of the main theme’s in The Alchemist is following your dreams and taking risks. This message is repeatedly shown throughout the story plot, with having the main character follow his desire, or in this case, Personal Legend. “The boy had remembered his flock, and decided he should go back to being a shepherd.” (Coelho, page 28) Santiago at first is not willing to travel to Egypt to find the treasure, due to the safe and pleasant life he has now. “The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw that he could have the same freedom.” (Coelho, page 30) However, he rethinks his choice, and chooses to leave behind the life as a shepherd despite the danger. This signifies Santiago courage and determination to try a new life. “Although

In Syria, refugees are fleeing their home country to find refuge in Europe. According to the BBC World News, most of these refugees are arriving by sea. This journey is treacherous since the boats cannot carry that many people. It appears that these refugees care more about the reward much more than the risk along the way. What could motivate someone to do that?

Many people have various connections with some place, person, or object. People as living machines of knowledge at the very top of the food chain are more advanced than any other creature on earth. Men tend to have many connections with faith, places, objects and even ideas, though the one connection above all is with another person who follows the same idea and the final conclusion. In the book “The Alchemist” By Paulo Coelho two people are fed the words of “Personal legend,” and “The Soul of the World.” Santiago a shepherd boy, and an Englishman whom both are on a journey to achieve the greatest any man can achieve, understand “The Soul of the World” and interpret it. Furthermore live on their own “Personal Legend.”

Santiago was an Andalusian shepherd that lived in the past. Santiago had a dream every night that that a boy tells him to go to seek treasure in egypt. Next he decides that he goes to a gypsy to see what the dream actually meant. She then tells him he should go but he has to hand over 1/10th of his treasure that he finds. A few days later he was sitting on a bench in a park and a mysterious man sits next to him and asked him what booke he was reading and the thought he cant read he is old. They get to talking and the mysterious man was actually a king. The king of salem. He

In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho implies a secondary theme of love through Santiago and Fatima’s clear expressions of love for each other. Santiago’s expression is shown in his early confession and request for Fatima’s hand in marriage (Coelho, web). Fatima’s expression is through selflessness, in encouraging Santiago to follow and chase his dream (Coelho, web). This gives Coelho’s readers a peek into his own personal views on love, and confirms aspects of what professionals in the social sciences have been trying to prove about this mysterious phenomenon.

“The Alchemist” was originally written in Portuguese by a famous Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. The book’s original title is “O Alqumistia”. The book was first published in 1988 which is since then been translated into 56 different languages and is one of the bestselling books of the history. This translation of the book was written by Alan R. Clarke and was first published by Harper Collins Publishers in 1993. The genres of the book are fiction, fantasy, psychology, drama.

When analyzing the importance of the structure and substance of a work of literature, people often times make the blunder of only putting emphasis on the substance. Instead of regarding the substance and structure of a novel as two vastly different things, they should think of them as a Christmas tree. If the structure was the bare pine tree, then the substance would be all the ornaments used to decorate the tree, and together they are a Christmas tree. But without the tree itself, the Christmas tree would not exist, for there would be no place for the ornaments to hang on. (Terlaje) In the same way, the substance of a story is dependent on the structure, because the structure lays down the foundation for the substance. Once an author is

Between the summer reading choice and novel synopses, “The Alchemist” was most interesting to me, but I didn’t know what the alchemist was. So I researched on it before I read this book. The alchemist is a person who studies how to transfer metal into gold, so I thought, according to the subject the story would be about a journey of studying how to transfer lead into gold. But my prediction was completely wrong until now. Transforming lead into gold takes just a few parts of the story.

There was a young boy from Andalusia named Santiago. His parents wanted him to be priest which would bring great pride to a regular farm family but Santiago wanted to be a shepherd and travel and experience new places. Through the money from his father, Santiago bought him a flock of sheep which became a part of his life and every year

My mother constantly repeated her advice for high school, “If you want friends, join a group.” I dismissed her nagging each time, eventually becoming frustrated with the lectures. I kept reminding myself that I had switched schools throughout my education, and thus far, had never struggled with the social aspect. Making friends had always come easily to me, and I loved connecting with people. I believed that I would quickly find a group that I fit in with at Millbrook; there were 600 people in the freshman class alone. My mom would bring it up again and again, especially while registering for classes. “Izzi, how about the band? I know they are a tight-knit group, and you used to love the saxophone.” My response was always the same; a sigh and a roll of the eyes. “Mom!” I was exasperated, and she was pushing her anxiety onto me. I would be fine.

Raised as I was in the western influences of philosophy as a young adult I was drawn to the eastern collectivism in culture best described by Tao. Lao Tzu wrote the world is like a river flowing and blending changing and harmonizing within nature and balance ourselves we too must harmonize and flow with nature. (Hallman, pg 192-195, 2008) Here is where for me you see the changes in my belief system for in my search to understand who I am and why do I exist I choose to search in many views.