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…
Imagine a world where you lost everything. You have almost no money, your family is dying of starvation and you can’t find a job anywhere in your state. This is the life of the Joad family in the film. During the Dustbowl a lot of people were forced out of their homes because they couldn’t find work, grow crops and make money. Most of these people moved to California in search of jobs and a new life for them and their family. In the film “The Grapes of Wrath”, it follows the Joad family on their…
pig from the village gypsy, who told him to carry it up the hill and sing a particular song to it. This is done so that over a season, the pig will grow larger than any others offered, in exchange of the hand of a man's daughter. The only condition was that in return he was to carry the gypsy up the hill on the final day. After becoming disillusioned with the girl he had loved, Stanley's grandfather left via ship to America. Upon leaving shore, he recalled his promise to the gypsy and the fact…
Hunchback of Notre Dame is about how a Quasimodo was the result of his father’s illicit sexual relationship with a gypsy. Quasimodo’s uncle named Frollo took in his deformed nephew and raised him to be the cathedral’s bell ringer. When Quasimodo got older, he got more curious and decided he was going to sneak out. When Quasimodo snuck out, he met Esmeralda and he led Frollo to the gypsies. At the end, Esmeralda died because she refused to be with Frollo and out of anger Quasimodo kills Frollo.…
lawyers, and anyone else who either helped them or defended them should be arrested and charged for this violation. Nazi concentration camps primarily housed Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, and other minorities. Only about…
At this day in age, to disregard humanity is to break the law. Humanity is all of mankind, and all of mankind should be treated coordinately. One should not express thoughts of casualties towards humanity, one must accept it. A perspective of humanity shouldn’t cause others to feel pain and sorrow. These are all thoughts of Adolf Hitler, the sole character in which started the discrimination and killing of those inferior to him. An individual’s point of view can cause them to antagonize and…
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A young boy riding a camel with the caravan, hoping to across the Sahara Desert in search of his Personal Legends. This image gives a concise and precise description of the theme in the book "Alchemist". The Alchemist is a book Written by Paulo Coelho that elaborates the journey of a young shepherd named Santiago, who decides to give up all his possessions and travel to the Pyramids in Egypt in search of treasure after his magical dream. Through his adventure, he was able to experience about…
Auschwitz was a concentration camp used in the final solution, a large genocide of almost all jews, gypsies, and disabled in Germany and some surrounding countries. The main way of killing in Auschwitz was a poison gas that was used in gas chambers.“The poison gas Zyklon B. was produced by the German company Denglisch”. There was one main gas chamber in Auschwitz. There were two smaller gas chambers in Auschwitz. Inmates at Auschwitz were also exposed to slave labor. The main gate at Auschwitz…
But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand..’” (12) In this quote the old gypsy that Santiago sought out for a dream interpretation is explaining that dreams are the language of God and in this language God tells very important messages which she can interpret. However, everyone interprets dreams differently according to their own lives. The gypsy tells Santiago that if he visits the Pyramids in Egypt, according to his dream, he will find a great treasure…