Santiago Adventurous Dreamer (the Alchemist)

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Santiago: Adventurous Dreamer “The boy’s name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in a long time ago...”(Coelho 3). Paulo Coelho the author of The Alchemist tells us the story of Santiago an Andalusia shepherd who has a recurring dream and decides to pursue it. The adventurous dreamer dares to go after his personal legend and has and unforgettable quest that takes him from Spain all the way to the Egyptian deserts. He showed his desire to make his dream come true overcoming many obstacles. Santiago wanted to see the world learn about it and have adventures but his parents expected him to become a priest. “One afternoon, on a visit to his family, he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn’t want to become a priest that he wanted to travel” (Coelho 8). 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. A year later Santiago had enough money to continue on. He joined a caravan that took him to Egypt. On his way there, he met an alchemist who guided and taught him different things thru a novel. The alchemist and Santiago were stopped by a tribe men who thought they were spies, so the alchemist told them that

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