The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."(page:11) This quote contributes to the idea of always following your dreams and if you don't you will find yourself nowhere in life. This idea is 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 some more traveling