The Alchemist Essay

reaching your goal by taking a very long journey? Personal legend can be a very long journey to reach your goals and dreams in life. I believe that you can always reach your goals and achieve your dreams if you believe in yourself. In the book “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, Santiago dreams about the treasures and people tell him that he is not going to be able to achieve his dreams as well as make them come true. He decides to go to many different places and face many obstacles until he got to…

In the novella The Alchemist, Santiago’s life is controlled by personal choice. Throughout the book he makes several big choices that impact the way he lives his life. He decides on his own to become a shepherd so he can travel. He also decided to continue on his journey to find his personal Legend even when he feels like giving up. The people’s actions around him also affect him further proving that his life is controlled by personal choice. If Santiago’s life was controlled by fate than his…

In The Alchemist, by Paulo Coehlo, this idea is expressed and explored, via comparisons to metallic substances, deserts, and universal…

The novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is known for one of the top ten best books in the twentieth century. It is known as the top ten best book because of the lessons that happen throughout the novel. There are many times where many people go through journeys/obstacles and learn many things out of them, such as life lessons. The novel,The Alchemist, is about a young boy named Santiago that lives in Spain. The young boy has a dream to go to Egypt to discover his true destiny, which is a…

Traits of Santiago In “The Alchemist” the main protagonist is a young boy named Santiago. From the start of the book it is revealed that Santiago is adventurous and determined, for instance in the beginning of the book it talks about how his parents wanted him to become a priest. Santiago right off the bat was uninterested in that idea, Santiago wanted to go out and see the world for himself. He wanted to meet new people and see new things and places. All of these things couldn’t be provided…

Fear in Fiction and Today Paul Coelho’s story, The Alchemist, follows a boy named Santiago, the main character of the story, who is living the life of a shepherd as he travels with his herd of loyal sheep. Santiago’s parents had wanted him to become a priest, but that was not Santiago’s dream. Instead, he hoped to one-day travel and broaden his view of the world; however, since traveling cost more than he could afford, he became a shepherd, a career that included traveling. Coelho weaves a story…

Throughout "The Alchemist" Santiago learns many new aspects on life and how the world works. Santiago has numerous "teacher" on the path to following his personal legend. The first "teachers" are his sheep; they play a big part in how he looks at life when he is a shepherd. Towards the beginning of the story Santiago mentions that he learns from his sheep and vice versa. His sheep depend on him, “They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to…

As I mentioned it above, Ficino’s doctrine of spiritual medicine was influential for the development of vitalist medicine during the Renaissance. For instance, Paracelsus, who establishes the importance of chemical analysis in the study of diseases and their cures, also believed on importance of the role of spirits in medicine. According to Paracelsus, God creates things in prime matter and not in its ultimate matter, which is the actual constitution of sensible things. This prime matter is…

desert, he meets an Englishman who is a student of alchemy. In many ways, they are alike: both are pursuing their Personal Legends and both have encountered the ideas of alchemy. However, their approach to life and learning is different and the alchemist chooses the boy as his pupil. One way they are different is because, “It was only the Englishman who was unaware of all this; he was, for the most part, immersed in reading his books” (75). The Englishman is like the boy in Melchizedek’s…

The logical thinking, chance taking, and rational of Santiago and the people he encounters on his journey teaches the audience the importance of decision making. Although some decisions can turn out to be a regretful one; mainly they are for the better allowing more success in life. Some life changing for better decisions is the one Santiago makes with the gypsy women about the charge for her services along with the dispute with the crystal merchant about building the display. These are just a…