Throughout "The Alchemist" Santiago learns many new aspects on life and how the world works. Santiago has numerous "teacher" on the path to following his personal legend.
The first "teachers" are his sheep; they play a big part in how he looks at life when he is a shepherd. Towards the beginning of the story Santiago mentions that he learns from his sheep and vice versa. His sheep depend on him, “They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment”. The sheep are followers and Santiago is their leader without him the sheep would be in chaos and they would possibly be dead because of the wolves. The sheep have taught Santiago to be brave, take chances, along with responsibility: they’ve …show more content…
That he wanted to travel”. The way his father ended up made Santiago not want to live with any regrets and take risks. What may have pushed Santiago to go through with being a shepherd was the fact that his father once had a dream of becoming a shepherd as well but did not go through with it and ended up with money problems, “The boy could see in his father’s gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world-a desire that was still alive, despite his father’s having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life”. Santiago did not want to end up with an unstable lifestyle, he wanted to follow his dreams and end up content and …show more content…
The king of Salem explains to Santiago about the “mysterious force” that eventually makes people believe that it’s impossible to achieve their dreams, “It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth”. Learning about this new “mystery force” Santigo would push past all that is against him to get to his treasure because he now knows that the force only appears to be negative and is not really negative. In all reality it pushes the person to see if they really want to achieve their personal legend enough to be able to get past all the obstacles. Melchizedek teaches Santiago how to be adamant and not give up on his Personal Legend just because of a few little bumps in the
The first "teachers" are his sheep; they play a big part in how he looks at life when he is a shepherd. Towards the beginning of the story Santiago mentions that he learns from his sheep and vice versa. His sheep depend on him, “They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment”. The sheep are followers and Santiago is their leader without him the sheep would be in chaos and they would possibly be dead because of the wolves. The sheep have taught Santiago to be brave, take chances, along with responsibility: they’ve …show more content…
That he wanted to travel”. The way his father ended up made Santiago not want to live with any regrets and take risks. What may have pushed Santiago to go through with being a shepherd was the fact that his father once had a dream of becoming a shepherd as well but did not go through with it and ended up with money problems, “The boy could see in his father’s gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world-a desire that was still alive, despite his father’s having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life”. Santiago did not want to end up with an unstable lifestyle, he wanted to follow his dreams and end up content and …show more content…
The king of Salem explains to Santiago about the “mysterious force” that eventually makes people believe that it’s impossible to achieve their dreams, “It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth”. Learning about this new “mystery force” Santigo would push past all that is against him to get to his treasure because he now knows that the force only appears to be negative and is not really negative. In all reality it pushes the person to see if they really want to achieve their personal legend enough to be able to get past all the obstacles. Melchizedek teaches Santiago how to be adamant and not give up on his Personal Legend just because of a few little bumps in the