After he told his dad he wanted to become a shepherd to be able to travel his dad gave him some gold coins. Santiago thought that after he got “tired of the Andalusia fields he could sell his sheep and go to sea”(Coelho10) and by the time “he had enough of the sea” (Coelho 10) he would have meet places and people. His desire to go after his dream was so immense that he throws his life as a shepherd to go for his adventure joining a caravan that traveled through the desert. He had to stop in an oasis because of tribe wars. While in the oasis he was robbed, and finished with nothing more than his desire to pursue after his dream and began working with a crystal merchant in order to save money to continue his journey.
She represented the harmony inside Santiago and stimulation to achieve what was begun and yet not finished and therefore he will then reach Fatima again. In addition, the last line in the Epilogue of the book was “I’m coming Fatima” [p.73] He really believed that accomplishing his journey to the pyramids will soon take him in return to Fatima’s love. Both the Englishman and Fatima help Santiago not only to create a vital comprehension, though request Santiago to the concluding dispute of his journey that symbolically establishes all he has discovered. These helpers and Santiago’s self-conscious are the main sources that encourage him through his
The sheep symbolize those who are completely blind to their personal legend like the Baker and the Crystal merchant. The sheep help Santiago realize that sometimes the things he treasures the most do not even matter to him that much. Santiago said, “It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of his sheep”(Coelho 4). Santiago has the sheep as his top problem. He did not want to make the sheep mad or unhappy.
Santiago’s choices are controlled by fate; the ones he makes before he becomes a shepherd lead him towards his Personal Legend. Near the beginning, Santiago decides he wants to travel and explore the world, he summons up the “courage to tell his father that he didn’t want to become a priest. That he wanted to travel…”(Coelho 8). Santiago has the urge to become a shepherd because, “amongst us, the only ones who travel are the shepherds”(Coelho 9). Santiago chooses his Legend and opposes what most people have done; ignore their aspirations.
He ends his essay with a strong quote that uses personification, “I believe in the freedom to see literature, history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.” With this quote said, it is very apparent that the author has a passion for reading. Moody
By: Anthony Rocchietti Douglas Everett explains that some people give up on dreams and never try to fulfill them. Then there are some people who begin to shoot for their goals but then realize that what they are trying to do can never come true. Then there are those special few that aim for fulfilling their dreams and do fulfill them. He believes this because he says that “There are some people, who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other.” The Alchemist relates to this quote because the main character, Santiago, follows his dream of becoming a shepherd and achieves that dream. When he is told about finding a treasure by a prince he knows that he must find his personal legend and fulfill his new dream.
Their desire to educate themselves through their own unique learning styles. Benjamin Franklin desired books from a very young age, but accidentally came across his talent. Although working with his brother gave him the opportunity to explore his skills as an Apprentice. Franklin realized he had an unquestionable passion to further his learning. Nevertheless, Franklin valued his scholarly skills and continuously tried to improve them
Often as the Hero proceeds along his journey, they encounter different mentor figures along the way, which help them to succeed in whatever it may be that they are doing. Mentors can provide guidance in many different forms; the two most common in these two pieces of literature being the kind advice giver, and the stern one who wishes you to learn lessons for yourself. The kind advice giver in both The Alchemist and The Odyssey seemed to play the lesser role than any other mentors in the stories. King Melchizedek offered advice and guidance to Santiago early on in his journey, encouraging him to set out after his personal legend in the first place. “Learn to recognize omens, and follow them,” the old king had said.” (Pg 41, Coehlo) The
The mood that the reader feels is an empathetic, yet understanding of what he feels needs to be accomplished. Especially how he made unique, yet valid, references to religion to strengthen his ideas was beneficial to the idea of equal treatment that he is, in general, trying to convey. Aside from Dr. King’s explanation of civil rights and why it should be distributed among everyone, comes a different type of text from Abel Meeropol. She wrote the poem, Strange Fruit in the 1930s and it is one of the most interesting displays of metaphorical language to discuss a serious issue in society. The three stanza poem uses vocabulary that one would normally associate with nature to inform the readers and listeners of the poem about the harshness and reality of lynching in the southern states of America during the
The soldiers from city of Gup communicate well with each other during the war, and win at the end of the war. Secondly, the reason why one must defend literature against tyranny is that literature has the ability to reveal the truth people have fail to see. "He believes that storytelling is our chief means of explaining the world to one another and ourselves, and the principal way we form intelligence. It is essential to human cognition. Stories teach the brain how to work."