Follow Your Heart, Find Your Treasure In The Alchemist, By Paulo Coelho

Follow Your Heart, Find Your Treasure Have you ever thought how to find your treasure? Well if you are you can read the alchemist to find out. Throughout the book, The Alchemist, You learn how to find your personal treasure and what it means to you. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago learns, “Remember where your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” First, Santiago always wanted to travel, so he becomes a shepherd. Next, Santiago works with a crystal merchant to buy back sheep but instead he continues to follow his heart and goes on his way to his treasure in Egypt. Last, Santiago realizes as he is in Egypt that his treasure was never in Egypt but in Andalusia under the sycamore tree. First, Santiago always loved to travel, so to follow his heart he becomes a shepherd. For example, Santiago’s father wants him to become a priest but if he became a Priest his heart would not be right, so he talks to his father. “One afternoon on a visit to his family, he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn’t want to become a priest, that he wanted to travel.” (11) Santiago cannot become a Priest and always had a love to travel and so he follows his heart and becomes a shepherd. …show more content…
First, Santiago becomes a shepherd, because he has a love to travel and follows his heart. Second, Santiago uses the money he got from the crystal merchant to follow his heart and go to Egypt. Lastly, Santiago is coming to his treasure and he realizes the journey is important not the treasure. The three quotes I used show that by following your heart, you will find your treasure. All three prove this thesis in it’s own way and following your heart will make you find your personal treasure. To find your treasure all you need to do is trust your heart, and it will reveal to you the necessary needs to find your