Alan Aguilar Prof. Baker English Fall 2014 The Alchemist Essay Have you every wondered what it takes for you to achieve perfection? In the novel The Alchemist Santiago has certain impurities that he has to get rid of to reach his personal legend. 3 impurities Santiago has in the novel are Fear‚ Purity‚ and faith. “The land was ruined‚ and I had to find some other way to earn a living. So now I’m a camel driver. But that disaster taught me to understand the word of Allah; people need not fear
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The Alchemist The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a novel about one’s journey and personal struggles in which aid him in uncovering his newfound self realization. Coelho advocates this message through the story of Santiago‚ a shepherd whose “personal legend” is to find the treasure at the Egyptian pyramids‚ but instead finds his treasure through the experiences during his journey. Coelho’s purpose is to share his ideas of hope‚ and individual understanding or interpretation of life. He is successful
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Why We Need Hardship and Difficulty in our Lives “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines‚ but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” -Buddhist maxim. For example‚ Bilbo Baggins in the story The Hobbit had never before left the limits of the shire. But‚ by the end of the story‚ he’s off fighting goblins and helping to slay dragons. He has become a new man who isn’t afraid to face dangers‚ go on adventures‚ or go past his former limits. He became a different person
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Bilbo Baggins lives a quiet‚ peaceful life in his comfortable hole at Bag End. Bilbo lives in a hole because he is a hobbit—one of a race of small‚ plump people about half the size of humans‚ with furry toes and a great love of good food and drink. Bilbo is quite content at Bag End‚ near the bustling hobbit village of Hobbiton‚ but one day his comfort is shattered by the arrival of the old wizard Gandalf‚ who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant dwarves. The
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In the fantasy fiction adventure novel‚ The Alchemist‚ written by Paul Coelho‚ an epic story is told about an individual named Santiago that follows his dreams and defies all odds to find a treasure that might not even exist. He is accompanied by an ally which is also an alchemist. Throughout the story‚ a main part was the symbolization of Santiago’s heart. His heart symbolizes the good in the world and the most pure way to get what you want. Santiago had to learn to follow his heart throughout
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The satire that appears throughout The Alchemist does more than show the flaws in society‚ it creates and supports the intricate character-based theme of reality versus desire that helps to “sell” the image of London that Jonson creates. As stated earlier‚ The Alchemist relies on a gambit of fabricated characters‚ with the three main characters‚ Face‚ Subtle‚ and Doll‚ relying heavily on made-up personas that help them with their cons. Besides protecting the main characters‚ the personas used serve
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The Alchemist- an inspiring fable The Alchemist is the popular and inspiring novel written by a Brazilian author Paulo Coelho in 1988. The book is originally written in Portuguese. It’s a novel that affiliate with an environment of the spiritual truth of the Middle Age with the melody of the desert. The Alchemist follows the dream‚ symbols‚ signs‚ and adventure follows a tale of young Andalusian shepherd named Santiago who has a dream and has a strong backbone to follow it. By writing this marvelous
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time in the movies you watch and the book you read‚ writer do it all the time to add a sense to fantasy to their work‚ a writer in particular who is fond of using fictional characters‚ is J.R.R Tolkien. J.R.R Tolkien wrote the fantasy novels‚ The Hobbit‚ The Lord of the Rings and much more‚ where he not only used fictional races‚ but he always gave each race their own characteristics and described how each race
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or have your dream crushed? Well‚ then you would relate to the theme of The Alchemist. The theme of The Alchemist is that everyone should pursue their dreams. In the story The Alchemist‚ Santiago starts off as a shepherd not aware of his dream or purpose in life then gets told by a wise old king to search for his treasure‚ goes on an adventure of his life and realizes what his true purpose was. The book “The Alchemist” starts off in a small town in the middle of the desert with a shepherd named
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Throughout J.R.R Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit‚ Bilbo Baggins develops a more adventurous personality. Leaving the quiet setting of his home forces Bilbo to adapt to the challenges that he faces before he is able to return to his quiet style of living. Although Bilbo returns to living as he did before his journey‚ he returned as a more adventurous hobbit than he was before. Tolkien uses many mythical obstacles‚ such as dragons and ogres‚ to develop Bilbo’s sheepish personality into more brave and cunning
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