The Alchemist

Life is a continuous journey; it’s too short to be lived without a purpose. It’s not just about finding yourself, but rather creating yourself through experience and reason. In the novel, “The Alchemist”, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago, a young shepherd, is on a quest to discover his Personal Legend, that is linked to the pyramids. Instead, he realizes that the experiences and lessons he learns in pursuit of his journey, rather than the Personal Legend as treasure itself. One of…...

From the moment women wake up to the moment they close their eyes, they are overwhelmed with information and patterns on how they should behave or look. Perceptions made through gratuitous and mostly superfluous manners help woman garner a certain respect from their peers, leading to a hierarchy of how and who they should be. In the short story “Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oakes (1966) contains an egotistical 15 year old girl named…...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a young adult fiction novel. The novel is styled as a series of journal entries that follow the life of Junior, a teenage boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. Throughout the book, Junior is put into situations where he begins as an outsider. On his reservation, he is the only Indian who suffers from hydrocephalus. At his high school, Junior is the only Indian. Although he began as…...

When I started the novel, I thought it was going to be a mysterious love story between a merchant’s daughter and a poor shepherd boy, perhaps with some adventure trickled in. After I read further, I came to the conclusion that it would be the journey of a boy fulfilling his dream. While that part turned out to be true, there was much more to the story than I could have imagined. It had many underlying lessons that I began…...

No one has complete control over their destiny but they can however, influence it in some way. In books such as Feed by M.T. Anderson, Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado, The Alchemist by Paul Cohen, MoneyBall by Michael Lewis and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there has been some way in which the characters influenced their destiny - even though it might have only been something small it made a big impact. In books such as…...

Within the novel, The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho, a young man named Santiago from Andalusia, Spain is guided through his quest to find hidden treasure amongst the mysterious foreign land of Egypt’s deserts. In interpreting omens from the universe, Santiago finds it within his soul to complete his Personal Legend and uncover his purpose of existence with the assistance from unique characters in addition to symbols, geography and irony. Such topics are analyzed through chapters 12, 19 and 26…...

Distributed in 1988, The Alchemists was viewed as one of Paulo Coelho\'s best works. The account follows the tale of a shepherd kid named Santiago. He chooses to go in the wake of having a repetitive dream about a fortune situated as the foot of the pyramids in Egypt. What\'s more, in his excursion he meets different characters and conditions that advise him to follow his legend which is a dream or an objective that he had for the longest…...

Introduction The Alchemist is a novel written by the famous Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho in 1998. Coelho is a talented writer, known for his talent to portray the truth through the creative illustration of real-life experiences. He is a man who lived a complicated life and faced rejection, but he fought to pursue his dream of becoming an author. He writes engaging novels that readers can relate to, and this may be one of the reasons behind his world-wide success.…...

Paulo Coelho dreamed to become a writer but it took him a little while to pursue his dream. This led him to write The Alchemist, which is similar to the journey he had to go through to successfully publish his book. The Alchemist is one of the bestselling books in the world which delighted many readers. It tells a story about a boy named Santiago in his journey of finding the treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. The novel is titled…...

The plot of this book is one man’s struggle to find himself in a cruel world. He faces many obstacles including being orphaned, handicapped, unsure religion and a hopeless romantic. Toward the beginning of the book he may come off to some as an unlikeable self pitying snob but by the end of the book you are hoping for the best for him and proud of him for pulling threw. He ends up making genuine friends and finding true love.…...

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In the film adaptation of the Motorcycle Diaries by Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara and the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the physical and mental challenges of crossing boundaries is shown through the use of irony, symbolism and the setting. Both are adventures about young men who leave home believing one thing and then come home changed completely. Irony is evident when Guevara, leaves his home in order to not only volunteer at a leper colony for a time, but to…...

The roots of atomic theory can be traced back over 2000 years ago to the ancient Greeks. The Greeks were responsible for many advancements in civilization, but one of the things that drove them was the question of origin. Who are we? What are we made of? Where did we come from? These questions were not limited to humans, but to all matter in the world. Around 400 BC a philosopher named Democritus proposed a theory of composition of matter.…...

Have you ever read "Alchemist" the book or Emerson's "Self – Reliance?" In this essay I will be comparing the two, with the differences and the similarities. The book Alchemist talks about a boy named Santiago that wants to peruse his dream as finding treasure under pyramids. Santiago is a humble shepherd whose desires are few–he wants to be free to roam with his sheep, to have some wine in his wineskin and a book in his bag. Fate intervenes,…...

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Originally published in 1988, The Alchemist was written by the world renowned and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. Being an allegorical novel, the author writes a story about a young shepherd from Andalusia who is on a journey to the pyramids in Egypt. His goal is to acquire the treasure that he keeps having recurring dreams about. Throughout his journey, he meets many influential characters and faces a multitude of situations that leads him towards searching for his personal legend- one's…...

In 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson published his short novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". A recurring theme in the novella is that of evil, a popular subject in Victorian literature as it is such an interesting concept to interpret. The story was set in London, a city put across in the novella as being a dark, intimidating place (as most of the scenes were set in the night-time), and where otherwise respectable men and women indulged…...

All of us, no matter what our station in life, have dreams. These dreams may be vibrant and alive, pulsating in our entire being; or they may be dead, perhaps worn down by the weight of the years and the affairs of daily life. For the people who nourish great, expansive dreams in their heart, each day is full of meaning and direction. But for those who have let their dreams fade, life, no matter how pleasurable it may be,…...

Allegory is a representation of an abstract or spiritual significance through concrete or product types, metaphorical treatment of one topic under the guise of another. To put it simply allegory is a story in words or prose, with double significance. It has a primary or a surface meaning and it has actually got a secondary or under the surface meaning. One of the best understood allegory in English language, is John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress". The Pilgrim's Progress is an…...

“The Alchemist”, an allegorical novel, is first written in Portuguese and has since been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author, Paulo Coelho. Set between 1926 and 1938, this book is first published in English by Harper Torch in 1993. The novel details the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy. Paulo Coelho’s main theme in the story is prophecy, highly influenced by the dreams of a shepherd boy Santiago, who…...

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A discussion of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist as an allegory is, in truth, a little difficult. The reason why this is so is that The Alchemist is in the genre of farce not that of allegory. However, while a work may not be definitively an allegory, through the process of allegoresis it may be critically read as an allegory in part or in whole. Allegoresis is the process by which a work that is not written as an allegory--like for…...

The novel “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho is an emotive story that has reached many lectors and for its popularity, this novel has transcended by many generations. About Paulo Coehlo Paulo Coehlo is a Brazilian writer who always dreamed of an artistic career, something frowned upon in his middle-class household. In the austere surroundings of a strict Jesuit school Paulo discovered his true vocation, however, his parents had different plans for him. When their attempts to suppress his devotion to…...