on the top shelf; or suddenly you have that incentive to buy your dream house and you can finally pay off the life-draining amount of bills you’ve accumulated. Though‚ it’s usually not like that. Our lives are a trial and life is unexpected. As Paulo Coelho said: “We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” So‚ as I step into this world‚ realistically‚ where do I see myself in ten years? Quite honestly‚ I have no idea! I would like to think that
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look mean‚ nasty or poor. But‚ you never know unless you talk to them. Santiago pre-judges the Gypsy and Old man when he firsts meets them. Later on Santiago realizes that if he pre-judge you will not find out the truth. Paulo Coelho uses Melchizedek and the Gypsy to illustrate that you should not pre-judge. When Santiago first meets the Englishman he thinks he is trying to be a nag. Santiago was also being rude because he was trying to make the old man feel bad. “That he for
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INTRDUCTION Allegory is a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms‚ figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. In other words allegory is a story in words or prose‚ with double meaning. It has a primary or a surface meaning and it has got a secondary or under the surface meaning. One of the best known allegory in English language‚ is John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”. The Pilgrim’s Progress
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A mysterious stranger wanders into the small mountain village of Viscos with eleven gold bars in his possession. He buries the first ten in a particular spot in the surrounding forest‚ and places the eleventh in a different location‚ all of this unbeknownst to the villagers. He then brings Miss Chantal Prym‚ a Viscos villager longing for the big city‚ into the forest with him and shows her the location of the gold bars. He then proposes a deal: if she can convince the townspeople to kill any nonspecific
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either sane or insane; and society bases its judgment on our actions‚ principles and ideals. But what does it mean to be normal or insane? The common view on insanity is that it’s a derangement of the mind; and is the product of mental illness. In Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die‚ it is stated that insanity is not a mental disease‚ it is merely diverging from the standard norms and generally accepted behaviors of society‚ and thus sanity is merely collective madness. There are many patients
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Do We Define Our Lives‚ or Do Our Lives Define Us Kristen Hurst Over the last decade or so people have begun to make a shift into accepting a new way of looking at the world that we live in – the belief that is making this impact is that you create your own life and‚ in some respects‚ you are in charge of your own destiny. This system of beliefs became known as the “New Age Movement”‚ however it’s really not all that new. The “law of attraction”‚ as it’s also known‚ has been around perhaps nearly
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I call this type “ exploring yourself trip”. Sometime and when we fill like we are empty from inside and life has no meaning we go to trip to see the mirror of our soul. Some people come out from this trip much stronger and better‚ for example Paulo Coelho (the most famous writer in the world) when he can’t write a novel he take his bicycle and go to trip for a three or four years. He did this thing twice‚ and in the second time he come back with the most famous novel in the world (Alchemist). Alchemist
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somewhat monotonous. Yet‚ much of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist took place in a desert caravan. The character‚ Santiago‚ learned a lot from the desert when traveling in the caravan; life in a caravan was different from a sedentary life‚ but this environment was conducive to Santiago learning the language of the world‚
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When being interviewed Brazilian‚ novelist and lyricist‚ Paulo Coelho claimed‚ “I can control my destiny‚ but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left‚ but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny‚ but our fate is sealed”. In today’s society‚ many people are conflicted on whether events in one’s lives are driven by one’s choices or are simply meant to be. Coelho believes that both free will and fate play a role in one’s
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would think of giving up their dream because they believe it’s too hard. Yet‚ at some point‚ people will also think it through and decide to keep moving forward to achieve their Personal Legend. Along the same lines‚ the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ highlights the obstacles one will face when reaching your Personal Legend. The story takes place in Andalusia‚ Spain where a young man named Santiago becomes aware of his Personal Legend. Santiago is a very courageous person and chooses to become
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