As she convinces him to follow his personal legend he meets an old man by the name of Melchizedek who is the king of Salem and pushes him to go after his dream and also gives him two stones that help him read omens.
After he begins his journey to find his personal legend he gets robbed and works for a crystal merchant for a year. Ethan chooses his duty to Zeena over his dream with mattie he would receive when proposed with the option of moving to the West, he decides against it because of what he owes to Zeena. He doesn 't knows if she would not be able to support herself and that clouded future is why he doesn 't agreed to leave. Again, Ethan chooses between duty to Zeena and seeking his personal dream when he and Mattie were going to take their lives so they would not have to live without each other.
Throughout his time with Zeena, he was forced to choose between duty to his family and his dreams. He could have left and continued his dream of being an engineer but instead he married her do to a sense of payment for what she had done for his mother.
Section 8: Theme s In the Alchemist, the theme of the journey being just as valuable as the destination is demonstrated throughout the story as Santiago learns about himself and others, which is recognized as the real treasure. When Santiago goes on his journey to find a valuable treasure hidden in the Pyramids, he learns many things from his experiences.
If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. If not pursued, it can become oppressive. However, the merchant does not plan on going through with the trip because he does not want to pursue his personal legend and then have it not be as good as he imagined it would be. This quote used by Coelho makes a reference to how, when someone makes a decision in life, either minor or major, their decision typically will reflect upon the character and mindset of that individual.
However, in rare instances, when someone makes a decision that defies his logical beliefs and rather follows his heart, that decision will offset a chain reaction in which will lead to events that will forever open his heart and mind to new possibilities in life. Thus when Coelho remarks on how some have "doubts about the decisions they make", he is demonstrating that, even when one chooses to follow their heart, they will always naturally become defensive, or doubtful, because it signifies change, and change will always open the door to the.
Santiago has to manage change to help him find his treasure and pursue his personal legend. To begin, Santiago gains advice from a wise old king. Santiago is a shepherd who reads and talks to his sheep. At the beginning of the book, he had two dreams about the pyramids. When he was younger, his father gave him 3 spanish gold coins to help him live.
The most influential characters in The Alchemist are Melchizedek, whom he meets first. He does so by traveling through worlds that are new to him Tangier, the Sahara , and by observing a new religion Islam and new peoples Arabs and Africans. As Santiago tells the Englishman, still lost in his books in the midst of the desert, "You should pay more attention to the caravan. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination. In talking to Santiago about his experiences at the crystal shop, the Englishman makes a statement that is central to The Alchemist 's philosophy — that "the earth is alive.
We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us. But in the crystal shop you probably realized that even the glasses were collaborating in your success.
Santiago's discovery that the surface of a single emerald contains the world's most important knowledge points out another of The Alchemist 's fundamental propositions: that books should be straightforward and easy to understand.
People make all things, including their books, too complicated, and eventually they cannot return to the simple truths that everyone once knew. Santiago begins to wonder if, in working for the crystal merchant, he was engaged in a kind of alchemy. The Englishman, by contrast, believes that alchemy can be learned only from a master alchemist and after reading many difficult books on the subject. This is another instance of The Alchemist 's point of view that experience is the best teacher.
The episode's final lesson, delivered to Santiago by the camel driver, is not inconsistent with this — that living in the present is the richest, most rewarding way of life.
Previous Englishman Episode. Next Oasis Episode. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. Okay, but there's got to be some reason he shows up in the caravan with Santiago, besides being from Merry Old England.
Especially in a book that explicitly tells us that there are no coincidences. So what's his deal? The Englishman is, like Santiago, looking for his treasure and following his Personal Legend. He's got his own, personal set of Urim and Thummim, and knows all about omens. But the Englishman works as a foil to Santiago because he's going about his journey in a very different way than our buddy Santi.
For one thing, whereas Santiago learns from watching animals and nature, the Englishman is a bookworm and learns through studying his ancient alchemy texts. When they decide to switch it up and practice the other's way, they both get frustrated:. The Englishman was disappointed. The years of research, the magic symbols, the strange words and the laboratory equipment…none of this had made an impression on the boy. His soul must be too primitive to understand those things, he thought.
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