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 the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want” CITATION Pau \l 1033 (Coelho). Throughout the novel Santiago feared many things
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character Santiago needs this rite of passage to define and seal his destiny‚ and to truly understand and believe in himself. It is through this journey that he establishes limits and boundaries on the illusions he holds onto ritualistically‚ and yet opens himself up to the larger possibilities of life at the same time. He goes through very obvious and specific stages in his struggle‚ in a world of illusion‚ through the sacrifice and pain of the journey and into disillusionment. 	Santiago is a
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The old man that said this quote approached Santiago‚ who was sitting and reading a book‚ and started a conversation with him. The conversation started with the old man asking Santiago what the people in the village were doing‚ then Santiago gave the man wine to help quench his thirst. Finally‚ the elderly man asked Santiago about the book he was reading. The man inspected the book and found it irritating‚ it was the same as every other book and it always ended up with everyone believing the one
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Sudden shock rapidly spread throughout the football community as the news was released that former NFL linebacker‚ Junior Seau was found dead. Seau’s death was not‚ however‚ caused naturally. Junior Seau‚ the man who led his team to their first NFL appearance and the man that was loved by the community took his own life. The suicide of the NFL star led to the immediate question: why would such a loved man end his life?. National Institutes of Health in Washington was chosen by the Seau family to
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unfortunate events while the original is negative. It portrays everything to be self-centered. This relates to the tale of the Alchemist because‚ in chasing his personal legend‚ Santiago had to learn to see the world for all that it was‚ not just as it related to his personal struggle. 2)The novel opens with Santiago thinking about his sheep. What does he observe about their existence? How might the sheep symbolize the way some people live their lives? How does his observation that they "have
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Summary On the day he is eventually killed‚ Santiago Nasar wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to wait for the boat which is bringing the bishop. The night before‚ he had dreamt about trees. He woke up with a headache. Some people remember that the weather was cloudy that morning‚ others that it was fine‚ but all recall that Santiago was in a very good mood. The narrator‚ lying in the lap of Maria Alejandrina Cervantes‚ was wakened by the clamor of alarm bells. Santiago is wearing a shirt and pants of white linen
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fish and talk’s baseball with him. Santiago would be alone at sea most times but would always say he believes a man is never alone at sea. Santiago must deal with loneliness‚ but I must learn to deal with many types of people with many issues. The old man is a person who will not give up easily. Even though he was old and tired he never gave up on catching the Marlin. He is humble‚ yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. Throughout his life‚ Santiago has been presented with contests
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struggles of Santiago in Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway I agree with William Handy in his quote‚ “ In the portrayal of Santiago in the Old man and the Sea there is no uncertainty of being‚ no confusion of self and values. …rather it is concerned with the depiction of conflicting values‚”(Handy 2) The Old Man has respect toward nature to make his decisions. Santiago also respected the marlin because he has finally found his match He knows the marlin can beat him nonetheless Santiago has respect
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"There’s no way out of this"‚ he told him. "It’s as if it had already happened." (Marquez 61). The irony of the situation is‚ that the brothers do not even want to kill Santiago‚ but because of the rules of society‚ they are forced to . Because of the standards and conditions of the Latin Colombian society‚ they are forced to avenge their sister’s purity. An interesting point however‚ is that in order to re-gain honor for
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just literal ones. This particular dream is presented as key‚ and both the fortune teller and Melchizedek encourage Santiago to follow it literally. But the centrality of dreams in the novel is based more generally on the idea that youthful hopes for the future should not be displaced as one ages‚ but rather should be held on to and pursued with passion throughout one’s life. Santiago is in this way an everyman hero in that he holds fast to his dream despite discouraging events such as the theft of
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