Themes. A) Dreams. A theme in The Alchemist is to follow ones dreams; Santiago was unsure at first, but later on he completes his dream and finds his treasure. B) faith. Santiago didn't have faith in himself; however, the Old King did which made him believe in himself.
However, Gilgamesh’s intentions were in the interest of the people, as he moulded the sons into warriors to protect the city. From this, one can assume the perspective that Gilgamesh was not as self-motivated as the modern day reader believes. However, the susceptibility of information to alternate interpretation allows for Gilgamesh to be perceived negatively from a contemporary perspective. Gilgamesh’s adventure for immortality offers readers an insight into the human condition, the innate naivety, greed and arrogance in all of us. This means that theoretically, all human readers
Dave is a Dominance style personality. “People with the dominant personality type tend to make quick decisions, are very results-oriented, are direct and straight-forward, and often display a high level of initiative and energy” (Slowikowski, 2005, p. 836). Dominance styles are also risk takers that like to explore new things (). Daniel’s motivation plan includes having him to participate in teams where he is not the lead. His high energy and initiative is beneficial in driving projects forward and keeping them on schedule, but taking the back seat once in a while will help Daniel to be more open to the opinions of others.
Due to his persistence and determination, he was finally able to meet the Alchemist after all his hard work. Additionally, on the way to Egypt, Santiago stops at an oasis and meets Fatima; He immediately falls in love with her causing his focus to stray away from finding his treasure along with his personal legend. Santiago rebels, “I want to stay...I’ve found Fatima, and, as far as I’m concerned, she’s worth more than the treasure” (Coelho 113). Santiago, ready to give up his whole purpose, does not realize that if he were to stay with Fatima, he would have regrets about not following his dream. After realizing that, he continues on his journey, leaving Fatima behind.
Doodle was proud of himself, and for his brother. After their success, Doodle began to believe in the power of persistency, and in his brother’s “infallibility”, and they began their newly devised plan where Doodle would learn how to fight, swim, run, and even how to climb trees. They, of course, persisted and fought to try and finish the learning
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.
He is scared of concept of changing or "growing-up." He wants everyone and everything to stay the way it is forever. This is why he loves the museum so much, because it does exactly what he wants to do. He is scared for his future not in a way of how "successful" he is going to be, but what kind of person he is going to end up as. He thinks as people get old or grows up, they change and lose their innocence.
In “Maestro” the inspirational journey of Paul trying to grip his highest dream there was disappointment but he still received “Honorable mentions”. Paul ended up within a life “with a women and child that he loved, within the confines of I life he hated” the disappointment of not achieve his dreams and the loss of Eduard Keller does show in “maestro” but Paul doesn’t realize that he isn’t failing he is at a great level he may not be “one in a million” but he sure is “one in a thousand” and that itself is a pretty big goal to achieve itself. Paul ended up with a girl that he loves, he was no longer shy to bullies and gained confidence and he grew so much throughout “Maestro”, not all of Paul’s life is full of failure and disappointment but rather “a small hurt to save a wasted life”. Paul achieved high and he gained a wife and child afterwards this overthrows the big disappointments in his life to make his journey through it
How many times have we fantasized about having a perfect life, and in that fantasy, we dreamt that we are extremely happy living that life? According to Daniel Gilbert, in his essay “Immune to Reality”, “because we ignore how our psychological immune system works, we cannot predict how happy our choices will make us”. Therefore, it gets us away from the perfect life that we wish so much. At the end, can we learn how to control the Psychological Immune System to achieve happiness in our life? We would be in a better standing position if we can take advantage of the knowledge how our psychological immune system works, identify what kind of happiness we want to experience, and recognize that we cannot be always happy.
It forced him not to be vulnerable with other people, but with himself and find the happiness he had been searching for his whole life. Many people believed it was crazy, but it was what Chris wanted that was of the most importance. And in a country where “individualism” is promoted, through his journey Chris McCandless showed that people are not as different as they consider themselves to be. Though his method of finding himself may not be popular amongst many, the importance was that he fulfilled what he had believed to be his destiny, to simply be set apart from the