How Does Santiago Use Language In The Alchemist

In the novel the Alchemist We begin to follow an adventure of a young boy named Santiago with a desire to go and travel. Santiago leaves his home to begin a journey to find a hidden treasure in the Egyptian pyramids during his quest to find said treasure. Santiago encounters a lot of people including, Tribes, Merchants, and Englishman love, and the alchemist in this intriguing novel we see Santiago go through a lot of character development and change along with other characters that he’ll meet on his journey . The Alchemist has a lot of themes through the story but I think this has to do with how they use language to change and develop these characters and really captivate the reader______ Language and Speech Is a theme in the novel but we need to understand that said language. It’s a very strange language honestly they use to it’s fullest to help the reader understand a lot of things they can flex out this language very well. Such use of this example is when we first meet the fortune teller …show more content…
When he speaks our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.” From this quote we can understand that this brings a mysterious tone of what could happen next in Santiago’s adventure. We also see more universal communication with other people such as the two men erecting the stall. “When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, while they were erecting the stall one of them spoken Arabic and the other Spanish. And they had understood each other perfectly well” This scene represents universal language very well they use different language but can understand one another very good these two quotes really show how the alchemist can really use