The Pursuit of Dreams
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, knows what their personal legend is, and at that 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 reaching his personal legend, we can be reminded of our own personal legends and become more aware of everything around us. When the story begins, we find Santiago as a young shepherd whose life is spent fulfilling his passion of traveling by herding his sheep through the fields and towns of Spain. He wakes one night in the middle of a re-occurring dream of discovering a buried treasure at the Pyramids of Egypt. After Santiago has his dream, he is soon visited by Melchizedek, the mysterious King of Salem, who tells him that soon after someone realizes their personal legend, all of the universe conspires in helping them achieve it, but only for a little while. After embarking upon his trip to Egypt, all of hi
"I thought that Paulo Coelho did an outstanding job in writing this book. The things that Santiago learns from the relationship that they eventually form, show the boy's lack of knowledge on how to attain one's personal legend while also staying true to his dreams. "Who dares read the meaning of the flight of the hawks?" he demanded. Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who learns through a dream of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. He must now struggle against not losing sight of his dream and his destiny. San Francisco: Harper Flamingo, 1993. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies, "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. Bibliography Coelho, Paulo. I was lucky enough for someone to share it with me, and after reading it I would recommend that everyone read this little fable about following your dreams. " The man in the black slowly lowers his sword and explains to Santiago that he is the Alchemist. '' A message clings like ivy to every encounter; everyone, but everyone, has to put in their two cents' worth, from the crystal merchant to the camel driver (``concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man''). As Gail Hudson says, "A message clings to everything in the book", therefore this book is full of little messages that remind us of our dreams and reignite a passion to achieve it. The forces that keep Santiago in sight of his personal legend are not determination, but trust, fascination, and wonder. He does not flee nor does he attempt to fight and protect himself.
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