The Alchemist Essay

Throughout Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist the protagonist of the novel, Santiago, encounters many teachers during his journey that influence his quest in search for treasure. One of the most significant of Santiago’s teachers is The Englishman. Santiago learns from The Englishman some of the key essentials to finding his treasure. When Santiago and The Englishman meet each other The Englishman shows Santiago all his book-knowledge. The most compelling evidence in the novel is, “The…

The Alchemist: Questions 1.) 2.) The book, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is an amazing book I will never forget. In the book, the author said that alchemy is all about pursuing our spiritual quest in the world as it was given to us; it’s the art of transmuting our reality into something sacred. With this in mind, my personal legend would be finishing (graduating) school. The first time I was able to act on this journey was when I started kindergarten as a little kid. That year was basically…

In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho writes of four obstacles that hinder the finding of one’s personal legend. People will always say the things you want to do are impossible, these people are the first obstacle. The second obstacle is love, which is followed by the fear of defeat. Finally, the fourth obstacle is the fear of realizing your dream. In the course of 167 pages, the main character, Santiago, faces and overcomes all of these challenges. From birth, Santiago’s parents wanted him to…

In The Alchemist, Santiago becomes friendly with the camel driver who traveled alongside him. Santiago tells him about his adventures as a shepherd, and one night, during one of those conversations, the camel driver talks about his own life. He talks about how he satisfied his only unmet desire in his life, and how he felt fulfilled. Then one day, the earth trembled, the Nile overflowed, and the land in which he made his living was destroyed. But the disaster taught him to understand the word of…

than realizing it. Along with that people can gain and learn a lot more from going on the journey to realizing their dreams compared actually realizing the dream. Something else that was really relevant to me was something that the alchemist had told Santiago. The alchemist had said, “ What good is money to you if you’re going to die. It’s not often that money can save someone’s life.” This stood out to me, because it was something that I believe everyone needs to know. There a lot of things…

The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho was quite intriguing, better than many novels that have better stories. A boy had a dream about treasure, so he went to the pyramids. Its a simple lack lustre story, compared to novels about time traveling or saving a kingdom from an evil tyrant. Even in precise detail the alchemist would have no complex story to grasp the audience with, so they will not be engaged enough to keep reading, but it is engaging. It is engaging because of how Coelho’s mysterious…

A natural satisfaction is always wrought when anyone fully accomplishes something that they set out to do. The ending to The Alchemist was a very fulfilling conclusion featuring the two-part completion of Santiago’s Personal Legend and featuring a comical instance of irony leading up to the final achievement of his search for his treasure that has more than just a humorous tone, reiterating the lessons Santiago has learned from the inner transformation of alchemy. Santiago’s viewing of the…

to achieve or dream of something in life. But sometimes this achievement is full of obstacles and challenges on the way. This dream or achievement can also teach us some valuable lessons throughout our journey. How we see it in the book, “ The Alchemist.” Santiago was in the search for his Personal Legend. He faced many obstacles. From working at a crystal shop to later on being beaten by some refugees from the tribal war who stole his gold. I think that the biggest obstacle or challenge was…

Theme: Dreams are a free plane ticket to travel the world in your mind. One main theme I found in the alchemist was dreams. Because In the beginning of the book the boy goes to sleep in an abandoned church and he says he had the same dream 3 times in a row to the palm reader. The dream was him traveling across the world looking for treasure in Egypt. A published study suggests that dreaming about a new or difficult task can actually make the task easier to perform once awake. In the experiment,…

Edwin Aguirre College English IV Mr.Engh 22 September 2017 Period 8 Chasing After A Dream Everyone makes a sacrifice on their way to achieving a goal, no matter what it takes. The novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, follows a young shepherd, Santiago, on his quest to find a treasure destined for him. He makes many sacrifices along the way. This is something that people can relate to easily due to the fact that the majority of the people make sacrifices in order to achieve their goals. I…