accomplished it. Adapting genuine lessons and finding your place on Earth through your activities and contemplations is accepted to be a standout amongst the most vital things in life. In The Alchemist‚ a novel composed by Paulo Coelho‚ shows us about existence and the significance of finding yourself. Paulo Coelho takes us through an adventure of a shepherd named Santiago‚ who discovers his own "legend". Santiago has been a shepherd the majority of his life and he understood that there is more for
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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
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Sometimes in life‚ when a person wants something with enough passion‚ everything seems to go perfectly accordingly to how it was planned. Paulo Coelho‚ the author of the Alchemist‚ calls this desire a personal legend. Everyone‚ when they are young‚ somewhat knows of their personal legend‚ and at some point in their lives everything is clear and possible. However‚ as time goes on‚ a mysterious force seems to blind us of achieving that goal. Through Santiago‚ the main character‚ and his attempts at
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the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ a Spanish Shepherd named Santiago goes on a journey through Africa and the Sahara desert. He is on his way to find some treasure at the Great Pyramids when he meets a gypsy. The gypsy tells him where to find the treasure and that he has to give half of it to her. He wants to fulfill his personal legend of finding the treasure.. I am a delightful girl who lives in the Al-Fayoum desert. A man named Santiago came to my tent to ask about a man named the
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medical field. The patients that come in and out of the hospital aren’t ordinary people‚ they are someone’s loved one‚ a family member‚ or significant friend. When they come seeking treatment‚ they are expecting to treated with care. Paulo Coelho‚ author of The Alchemist once said‚“When we love‚ we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are‚ everything around us becomes better‚ too.” How I see it‚ you must treat a patient as if you are treating
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In the novel‚ The Alchemist‚ by Paulo Coelho‚ there is a passage from that book that stuck out to me as being the most pivotal and salient quote in this novel. The passage describes the conversation between Santiago and the camel driver while they were on their way to Al-Fayoum. The camel driver tells Santiago that when you are pursuing your own Personal Legend you must have no regrets because God is the one who oversees everything. Santiago‚ many times over‚ is being enticed to give up his search
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When Paulo Coelho was young‚ he wanted to become writer but his family didn’t like it very much. At 1982‚ he announced his first novel‚ but it was out of the readers’ picture. Nevertheless‚ he did not give up writing and he succeeded by the novel called "The Alchemist" (M.post.naver.com‚ 2017). Even though the reason why the novel is entitled "The Alchemist" does not exactly appear in the story‚ the novel is entitled "The Alchemist" because Paulo Coelho compares Santiago’s journey to the definition
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50 years‚ “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho is the fifth most read book in the world (Polland‚ 2012). Many people were impressed by this book‚ and people had time to think about their own personal legend after reading this book. The content of “The Alchemist” is so great that people can easily read and understand this novel‚ but the title of this novel‚ “The Alchemist”‚ confused some people. The reason is that even though there is an alchemist in the story‚ the story is mainly about the journey of
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The alchemist - Paulo Coelho The author Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil August 24‚ 1947 and is a lyricist and novelist. Paulo Coelho is one of the world’s most read authors. He is believed to be the fifth most read author through time. Coelho has done a lot of different things in his life. As a teenager he was a rebel and a hippy. Later he started a publishing company‚ wrote lyrics for Brazil’s most popular artists and has even been in a mental hospital. He has also worked as a journalist
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In the story The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho though out the whole story‚ it talks about a boy with a dream that he want to achieve yet thought out the story he is constantly faced with difficult task that stand in his ways but he always manages a way to overcome the task.No matter what culture or religion we have all hear story’s that have been passed down generation to generation. Those stories are meant to teach us life lessons that our ancestors have learned they are to show us the way so we don’t
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