When Santiago questions whether or not he should stay at the oasis with Fatima, the alchemist responds with a description of his future. He states that if Santiago were to remain at the oasis “You’ll marry Fatima, and you’ll both be happy for a year.” (124) However, he continues to state that the omens will return, urging Santiago to continue his quest. He then explains that “sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you’ve stopped listening to them.” (125) He describes how Santiago will then be a rich man, but a rich man with regrets and dissatisfaction with life. He explains that Santiago will spend the rest of his days knowing and regretting that he didn’t pursue his Personal Legend, but he will realize it too late. Although this situation appears futile and as though Santiago is at a standstill, the Alchemist explains that “you must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend.
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. Santiago faces obstacles and overcomes many things to find his personal legend. First, the quote by Douglas Everett relates to every single person in the world. There are all kinds of different people in the world and all of the people have one thing in common, to achieve a goal in life. The difference between people is that there are some who try to find their dream and some who give up on finding it.
This leads the reader or watcher to come to their own opinion about what determines the outcome of a man’s life. Entry 13: Throughout the book Macbeth continues to believe that his fate is set in stone and fails to realize that it is his action that have brought him to where he stands. At no stage does Macbeth lose his free will and you continues to use his free will to chase down the prophesies of the witches and this is my the book Macbeth leaves the theme of Fate and Free will up to individual interpretation. The USB attached shows all the original
The divine Calypso was certainly for keeping me in her cavern because she yearned for me to be her husband and with the same object Circe…but never for a moment did they win my heart” (110-111.28-31). Even though both Circe and Calypso both offer a good life for Odysseus to live, he is loyal in finding his way home to Penelope and Telemachus. He never gives up on going home, but if he had, he would have given up his loyalty to his wife and country, something an epic hero would never do. Odysseus stays loyal not only to his wife and country, he stays loyal to the men who have been with him on his entire journey. He has to be loyal to them because they have done nothing but stay loyal to him.
Santiago didn't have faith in himself; however, the Old King did which made him believe in himself. C) Perseverance. There were several times where Santiago wanted to give up and go back, but he kept going which lead to his treasure at the end. 4. Four obstacles of life.
The Epic of Gilgamesh For many centuries, in many different civilizations there have been legends and stories about supernatural men who have inspired the people from their culture through bravery, honor, and skill. We call these legends or characters Epic Heroes. There are certain things that these epic heroes, surprisingly have all in common. All of them: face enemies while struggling in their epic journey, the epic hero would encounter women as temptresses who threaten the completion of the epic hero’s journey, at the end of the epic journey, the hero must complete a task by himself, and after the final task is successfully achieved, the hero would return to his people as a hero. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story about a man who is two-thirds
However, throughout the journey he hangs out with an Englishman who also seeks for An Alchemist to let him know about this Universal language he’s trying to understand. The Englishman is encouragement for the boy who’ s seeking the treasure because know he knows that he’s not the only one who believes in omens and in search of an Alchemist for wisdom. The essence of this far away journey is the boy’s ability to understand that looking for a treasure costs a lot of hard work while perceiving understanding of the outside world that includes friendship, work, love and amusing resources as well as dreadful. Experience is what the boy is gaining knowledge of because he finally is uncovering himself of the childhood he used up to become a
He cared about Huck, especially after what he did and what he is doing to help him achieve his goal, to reach Cairo, a slave free state. He’s goes through this emotions several times every time they pass a town hoping they have reached their destination, the feeling of excitement and then disappointment. Throughout this chapter, Huck is bothered by his guilt and he is unsure whether he is doing the right thing by helping Jim escape and get to his destination while Jim is hopeful and thankful for Huck’s help through all of
Candide Voltaire uses many different styles of writing but in Candide, Voltaire uses many characters in order to speak his mind without suffering any consequences. Candide was Voltaire’s way to criticize rulers and criticize pretty much everything that was happening during the era of Enlightenment. Candide set out on a journey to find his beloved Cunegonde and along his journey he came upon a utopia by the name of El Dorado. When Candide and his valet Cacambo first arrived they were surprised at what they saw. Why were they surprised, what did they see?
She shows delight as she sees herself in the mirror without the birthmark on her cheek any longer. Georgiana feels badly for Aylmer, she sees that he is happy that he has made her perfect, but he has aimed to high for perfection, willing to lose the love of his life as he strives to create perfection. Georgiana then passes away as the last tint of the birthmark fades away, again leaving Aminadab in a chuckle. Almost as he knew that his boss’ obsession would cost him his great love. Georgiana knew what would be the most likely outcome of her husband’s experiment on her, yet was willing to submit to it to make him happy.