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.…...