The Alchemist Quotes

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Would you ever listen to an old man on the street telling you to go to a place you’ve never been to follow your dreams? You don’t know how or where you’re going, but you're going on an adventure of a lifetime. Well Santiago did, all he had was fate and himself. Paulo Coelho’s book “The Alchemist” displays the theme to follow dreams to wherever they may take you. The characters Santiago meet in the book influence his decisions.King Melchizedek, Fatima, and The Alchemist are the ones who make Santiago’s dream possible. At first the King seems like a peasant but underneath the raggedy clothes was a breastplate of gold. He is the man that starts Santiago’s journey to his own Personal Legend. “To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation.” (25). From that quote you could see that he is telling him to go for it, pursue your own personal legend. Santiago’s next encounter is with Fatima. Fatima is a women of the desert. After Santiago told her about his personal legend she knew that it was sign, they were meant to be. All she could really do was help him continue to his goal. "I'm a desert woman, and I'm proud of that. I want my husband to wander as free as the wind that shapes the dunes.” (99). She is allowing him to be free and go on pursuit of his dreams. The …show more content…

The narrator knows everything giving us the reader a deeper understanding into what is actually happening. We could see into the Alchemist’s head and see what he was doing and why. Or the different emotions that each character expresses. In events such as when they met up with the chieftains. The leader wanted to see Santiago turn into wing while his other comrades wanted to kill him and the Alchemist was ready and knew that he could do it. If it was narrated by the Santago we would only see his interpretations of the situation. We could experience Santiago’s Personal Legend Journey to follow our

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