the progantinst‚ Santiago‚ adopts the life of a shepherd so he has the opportunity to travel and leave his small home in Andalusia. Complacent with his way of life‚ Santiago unintentionally meets an old king who says Santiago must fulfill his personal destiny. Learning to speak the language of the world‚ Santiago follows the omens that continually surround him only to discover that the physical treasure remained back home. Despite his endless hardship throughout the journey‚ Santiago felt continuous
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(Melchizedek) and the protagonist Santiago. The main theme of the book the‚ The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho would be‚ why overcoming your fears enable you to pursue your dreams. The crystal merchant in the book‚ The Alchemist is afraid of pursuing his dream to make a pilgrimage to Mecca because he thinks he will have nothing to live for once he’s achieved his dream. The crystal merchant understands that he acts foolishly in not pursuing his Personal Legend‚ even after Santiago shows him the benefits
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Alchemist Archetypes In the alchemist by Paul Coelho‚ he writes about a shepherd named Santiago. Santiago’s journey is written mainly through situation archetypes. Archetypes are used to categorize people and a situation in stories‚ poems‚ plays ect. The predominant archetypes are situational. The most distinguished archetypes in the alchemist are the initiation‚ the quest‚ death and rebirth‚ the journey‚ and supernatural intervention. The first archetype in the entire book is the initiation;
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Old Man and the Sea Study Guide Answers DAY ONE: PAGES 9-25 1. Who is Santiago? Describe his physical appearance and personality. He is an old fisherman who has “gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”(9) He has been deemed “unlucky” by others in the community. Santiago’s is described on pages 9-14: o “thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck;” o “brown blotches of benevolent skin cancer;” o “his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish;” o “everything
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The Alchemist Reflection Questions 1) What is the significance of Santiago becoming a shepherd rather than a priest‚ as his parents had hoped? Why has he made this choice? What does being a shepherd allow him to do? Santiago becoming a shepherd rather than a priest as his parents had hoped is extremely significant to the plot of this book. If Santiago never became a priest‚ he never would have been able to fulfill his Personal Legend. The boy made this choice because “…I [he would] like
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character‚ Santiago‚ recognizes his purpose in the world. The moment that this happens is when he decides to abandon his current lifestyle and begin his quest to achieve his “Personal Legend.” This single moment emphasizes the idea that the most important goal in life is to become self-satisfied. In the novel‚ Santiago is a poor shepherd who comes from an equally poor farming
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follows a story of a boy named Santiago who is following his personal legend. The Alchemist has many archetypal themes and symbols including wise old men‚ women‚ and the nature around him. Throughout this novel‚ Coelho uses archetypal men. The men he uses are the Alchemist‚ his father‚ and the King of Salem. Wise old men symbolize the ‘savior’‚ ‘redeemer’‚ and the ‘guru’. The first of the three wise men that Santiago encounters is his father. His father had wanted Santiago to become a priest‚ but
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portrays the theme of THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho because there through the characters of a crystal merchant an Englishman and Santiago. The crystal merchant is one who lives in a dream world because he does not go after his personal legend. The Englishman faces reality because he is always reading books and never interacts with others or takes interest in his surroundings. Santiago turns dreams into reality because he goes after his personal legend by going through many obstacles until reaching the endpoint
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him going is a kid named Manolin and a Marlin fish. Santiago is the name of the old man‚ and what makes him so happy to catch the marlin is because of his recent unluckiness of not catching a fish for 84 days. There is a strong sense of symbolism in the book‚ the symbolism is used to tell a story with some sense of relation between Santiago and other objects. The marlin symbolizes the old man’s life in general‚ meaning without the marlin Santiago would have nothing spectacular to look forward to in
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start of the story is Manolin. Manolin is the young boy pupil of Santiago who has been learning the ‘Tricks’ of fishing from him. He is an important character of this novel‚ though he does not play an active part in the adventure of the old man. Manolin symbolizes Santiago’s youthful strength‚ serves as a source of comfort‚ care and happiness for the old man‚ and provides inspiration and hope to Santiago-an old‚ weak fisherman. Santiago was an old man who did not have much strength left- “everything
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