Destination and journey in life are very important‚ but your journey is the most important. Journey is what you’re doing to reach your destination. Sometime destination can’t be achieved by one. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ Santiago took a trip to Africa to discover his personal quest. While on his trip‚ he talks to the camel driver. The camel driver says to Santiago‚ “If you can concentrate always on the present‚ you’ll be a happy man…. Life will be a party for you‚ a grand festival‚ because life
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English 10 The Alchemist Discussion Questions Directions: Read the assigned selections and answer the following questions for each section. Answer each question thoroughly‚ using complete sentences and details from the novel. As you read and reflect on these questions‚ it is important to remember that The Alchemist is a fable. In fact‚ The Alchemist is subtitled "A Fable about Following Your Dreams." Like most fables‚ The Alchemist has a theme/moral that reflects a universal truth concerning life
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not only a moral in the book "The Alchemist"‚ but also a life lesson learned by the author Paulo Coelho himself. As a son of an engineer and a housewife‚ the expectations of his future successes were greater than his dream of becoming a writer. So‚ they decided to place him in a mental institution with approved electroconvulsive therapy. He was later enrolled in law school‚ which he decided to drop out from and travel instead. He became a songwriter and changed his ideologies‚ but it was only after
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Narration in The Alchemist In many books we read‚ there are characters who chase a dream of one kind. In The Alchemist we see this plenty of times and of course like in every story there are several complications the main character has to go through to achieve their dream. For Santiago especially we see several complications throughout the beginning of the story. These complications make Santiago lose the little faith he had‚ but he soon recovers it because he realizes that Melchizedek the king of
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The Alchemist versus The Little Prince The Alchemist and The Little Prince are two books written by two different authors. The first book’s author is Paulo Coelho and the second book’s is Antoine de Saint-Exupery‚ both of them being written in the twentieth century in two different corners of the world. The first book‚ The Alchemist is about a young shepherd named Santiago who decides to go on a trip to the Piramids in Egypt in order to find his treasure
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the terrible things that happened to Santiago in search of this treasure. He had his money/gold stolen from him several times‚ had to work for a crystal merchant for a year‚ had a vision that the oasis where the love of his life lived was going to be attacked‚ had to
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doesn’t give a reader the choice. They will not only want to truly continue to think about the issues and themes presented throughout the story‚ but also to discuss them with others to get more insight and understanding. That was exactly what The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho was able to do. Many themes that Coelho brilliantly inserted into the storyline allow for conversation after reading the book. The obvious topic that came up throughout the series of events was the concept of “Personal Legends”
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FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! (And Brotherhood of course.) Basic Information: So first a little backstory on the Manga. The first volume was published on Janurary 22nd‚ 2002‚ and the last was published on November 22nd‚ 2010 in Japan. Then Viz Media started publishing the english version‚ having the first volume published on May 3rd‚ 2005‚ and the last on December 20th‚ 2 011. On October 4th‚ 2003‚ they started an Anime adaption of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. Because the Manga had just started 2 years
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Dream.Believe.Survive. (A reaction paper on The Alchemist) The Alchemist is a thrilling novel that spurts with sanguinity; the story tells you that everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. It’s like spiritual truth or ultimate reality can be attained through experience but as Coelho states "simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". The story of the treasures of Santiago finds along the way teaches us‚ as only a few stories have done‚ about
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Is lying an inevitable part of life? As long as people live and have free will‚ it seems some people will always choose to be untruthful therefore causing havoc with their choices. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson is a play unlike others of its time period. However‚ even it does not escape the flaws of our world such as lying. In a time period as fragile as The Alchemist’s setting‚ one would think the characters would be a little more cautious than they are portrayed to be by the author. In this play
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