The Alchemist
The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho. The book is about a immature male child, named Santiago. He is populating with his household and he is being educated to be a priest, when he says to his parents that he wants to see new topographic points and to do a large journey to detect universe ‘s secrets. His male parent respects his sentiments and gives him a pocket, in which there are three Spanish Gold liras to purchase a flock of sheep in order to do ends meet. Santiago leaves his place and buys a flock of sheep as his male parent said. Besides his other wonts, he likes reading books and particularly those with many pages, every bit good as run intoing new people. One twenty-four hours he sees an uneven dream while he is kiping under a tree ‘s shadow. After that dream his life wholly alterations, because he sees that there is a hoarded wealth buried in Egypt. After this dream, he goes to a town and asks a fortune-teller what the significance of his dream is, but he does non acquire any meaningful accounts. Then he meets with a wise adult male, named Melchizedek, who claims that he is the male monarch of a land which is far from at that place. Santiago is impressed by the wise adult male and he decides to look for his hoarded wealth. The following twenty-four hours, Santiago sells all of his sheep and starts the journey to Africa to happen his hoarded wealth.
After a palling travel finally he arrives to Africa but every bit shortly as he gets in Tangiers he is being robbed and finally he understands that happening the hoarded wealth will be harder than he thought. After that, he decides to happen a occupation because he wants to travel back. So he gets a occupation at a local crystal store. He works at that place about one twelvemonth and eventually he earns adequate money to travel back and purchase a flock of sheep. But he changes his head once more and he joins a train in order to happen the hoarded wealth.
Along his journey he meets new people and one of them is an English adult male who has come to Africa to happen a celebrated Alchemist. The English adult male tells Santiago about the secrets of chemistry. Santiago realizes that his thoughts are really similar to Melchizedek ‘s. While they are going, they hear that some folks are acquiring ready to get down a rebellion.
Santiago ‘s train journey ends at Al-Fayoum where the celebrated Alchemist lives. There is a beautiful miss named Fatima. Equally shortly as he meets her, he falls in love with her. He realizes that love is out of his control and that there is something else behind it. He starts believing that his love is created by the Soul of The World. When Santiago is walking in the desert, he has a vision of a tribal war and he instantly goes back to the metropolis and tells the seniors of the oasis about what he saw. The seniors confirm Santiago ‘s vision and they offer him to be their counsellor. Santiago refuses because his precedence is to travel and happen his hoarded wealth. But so the celebrated Alchemist finds Santiago and convinces him to be a counsellor.
The Alchemist and Santiago start their journey and after a piece they are taken captives by the soldiers of a rebellious folk. Alchemist says to the tribesmen that Santiago is a sort of powerful magician and he can transport himself wherever he wants. The tribesmen are impressed and they say that if he can transport himself, they will allow Santiago and the Alchemist spell. The Alchemist accepts the trade but Santiago does non cognize anything about transit. After three yearss preparation, he transports him to another location in the cantonment. They gain their freedom and so Santiago goes to the pyramids to happen his hoarded wealth.
When Santiago arrives at the topographic point he has seen in his dreams, he starts to delve. While he is delving, two robbers appear and ask him what he is making. He tells them about his dream and about the hoarded wealth. One of the robbers laughs at him and he says that he has seen a dream like Santiago ‘s but in his dream, the hoarded wealth is buried in Spain. After they have left, Santiago realizes that the hoarded wealth is in Spain, so he returns to Spain once more. He finds his hoarded wealth under the tree where he has seen his first dream. He finds his hoarded wealth and he goes back to Al-Fayoum to be with Fatima.
The significance of this book is remind us that we have to be cognizant of the beautiful things around us.
