The Legend Of Santiago's The Alchemist

A theme from this book that connects to this quotation is “the importance of understanding and fulfilling one’s own destiny.” At the beginning of the book when Santiago had a dream about discovering his treasure in the Pyramids of Egypt he did not yet grasp the importance of it. Even after discovering that the dream was his Personal Legend and that it is an important duty to fulfill this Legend, after meeting the love of his life in the oasis during the journey he wanted to stop. He assumed that life would be great since he has a true love and gold that could give them financial stability. He still was not seeing the full importance of fulfilling his legend. But finally after receiving guidance from the omens of God, the alchemist, the king,
and the wise words from his love; and learning what not to do from the crystal merchant he finally truly understood the magnitude of fulfilling his Personal Legend. He ultimately realized that love is the language of the world and it is controlled by the soul of the world and the soul of the world would never stop you from fulling your destiny in fact, it encourages and pushes you to accomplish it. Also, in this passage the author Paulo Coelho utilizes phrases like “He thanked God for making him believe” and “love would never keep a man from his personal legend” to indicate an appreciative and benevolent tone.