Book Report On The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

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The Alchemist
The whole book «Alchemist» is about, probably, one of the most difficult questins of human`s existence. They are like destiny,voice of our hearts, universal language and dream.
Paulo Coelho chooses the young boy-shepherd as a main hero. He was absolutely ordinary boy without any special possibilities,but with a great dream. As only Santiago decided to follow his dream, the universe began sending him different omens,which helped the boy not just to achieve his dream but also to be involved in a greater thing :realizing and following his destiny and the voice of his heart. During the whole way of the boy to his main treasure,the author introduces new people with different ways of life, points of
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We can whiteness new,better,deeper things,which we couldn't notice earlier. One of the most important such discoveries for Santiago was that everything in the whole universe is interconnected and every its detail is evolving and improving all the time. This fact makes us improve ourselves as well, we constantly try to become better. This process is never easy,in many cases even depressive as we need to take some great pains to do our best. However the final result makes us feel really great and happy.

The Alchemist is a pleasant for reading book with a very exciting plot.This book made me think a lot about things which were not important and probably even not interesting for me earlier. With every new Santiago's adventure I could imagine myself being as a main hero instead of him and tried to make my own choices. I couldn't but was excited by all proposed by Coelho solutions of different,difficult situations.Paulo Coelho is really a very talented writer,who could explain and describe quite difficult things in a simple way with wonderful

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