Fate In The Alchemist

To Achieve Your Dreams The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, has a very interesting theme. It’s about how luck and fortune are one and the same and how everything around the boy helps him to achieve his destiny. But how does this theme change and develop in the book? Imagery is often shown as omens throughout the book and help develop the theme. But primarily, the supporting characters help the boy in the story. The theme of luck and fortune develops throughout each character's personal destiny, it is shown not by what their fortune is but by how they get it. They all help and are related to the main character’s, Santiago's, destiny. Maktub, it is a phrase that continuously reappears through the boy's entire adventure. It means “as it is

We can learn all the thoughts of the boy and other characters in the story. Their lives help us understand the boy's journey by mimicking it in many aspects. For example, The Englishman works to understand how to turn lead into gold. He works, not for the gold, but for the knowledge and understanding of how to make the gold (Novels). There is also The Merchant that helps the boy directly by mimicking and differing their lives. The boy is working for the merchant with no hopes of getting his treasurer. But at the end when the boy has more money then he has ever had and can help the merchant expand his shop, he continues his journey with a new found desire (Coelho 63). The merchant has a dream that he wants to achieve but is afraid that when he does he will have nothing to live for. Just as the merchant does, the boy too has a dream but their difference is that the boy is afraid if he will be able to achieve his goal. But the boy still wants to realize his dream, this is also how they differ (Coelho 57). In doing so, the boy sees how his life is just like the merchants up to now, steadily heading towards pointlessness without his dream. So he continues his journey and archives his true