The Alchemist vs The little Prince

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, in other words on a trip

pursuing his destiny as a result of a dream which he had when he was still in Andalusia. There he

met an old king named Melchizedek who encouraged him to pursue his dream. He experienced a

lot of troubles in his way to the Piramids but after he met his love, Fatima he had more hope in

achieving his dream.

The second book, The Little Prince is about a prince who arrives in the Sahara desert

from his planet. There he met the narrator who is a pilot and whose plane crashed in the same

place,the Sahara desert.The first thing that the little prince asked the narrator was to draw a sheep

for him despite his bad talent in drawing. After several attempts he drew a box saying that inside

of it was a sheep.The narrator asked the prince how did he arrive in the middle of the desert. He

told him that he went on a trip to see how the other planets are like. On each of the six ”planets”

he visited, lived a man. On the sixth planet was a geographer who told the prince to visit the

Earth, and so he came in the Sahara desert.

There are similarities and differences on plot, symbolism, characters.

The similarities on characters between The Alchemist and The Little Prince is

that the