Legend

desire is the start of it all. The Alchemist talks a lot about realizing your personal legend. “Personal Legend; It is what you have always wanted to accomplish.” It explains what a personal legend is and how it will deeply affect someone’s life. Nobody wants to live life full of regrets by keeping something inside of them they’ve wanted to experience or do for a long time. During the novel, the personal legend belongs to a shepherd, but it is more interesting to see the support he gets from the…

The boy was taught by many people throughout his journey. One of Santiago’s teachers was his sheep. An example of the sheep teaching the boy is this quote, “ They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment.”. Thourgh this quote we can come to the conclusion that the sheep help the boy realize, how to earn trust and keep it, and also responsibility for himself and others. In the quote it is referring to the boy not wanting to kill the…

Chivalry was alive in the many Arthurian Legend stories. During that time, chivalry was basically a moral code for knights. For example, keeping one’s word could have been considered chivalrous. In Thomas Malory’s “Sir Launcelot du Lake,” and John Steinbeck’s “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights,” chivalry is alive. Chivalry is shown to be alive in Thomas Malory’s “Sir Launcelot du Lake”. For example, When Sir Launcelot was taken prisoner by four queens, he was asked to either choose…

Do you know why cats and rats hate each other? It’s a common occurrence to hear that rats and cats hate each other, but do you know why? In Cat and Rat: Legend of the Chinese Zodiac they have a race to decide which months the animals will be connected with. It shows how Rat betrayed Cat by pushing her so he could win the race despite saying they’d win together. In How Cats and Mice Became Enemies it shows how Cat and Rat needed to cross a river so they used a pumpkin. In this story Rat betrays…

Synthesis Essay: Lancelot The legend of Lancelot is a story with numerous versions written over the course of many years and writing eras. Each form of the legend has notable differences compared to its other forms. The differences in what is emphasized in each version may be because the author wanted to tweak the legend, because of the time period it was written in, or simply to write a different version. Each version of Lancelot is different because of the time period in which it was written,…

The author, Washington Irving, wrote the marvelous story “Ichabod Canes The legend of the Sleepy Hollow” published in English on 1900. Irving died in November 28, 1859, he was a great American short story writer, among many other things, of the early 19th century. He was best known after he wrote “ Ichabod Crane the legend of sleepy hollow” but he kept growing as a writer and had many more successful pieces of literature like “ A History of New York” and “the sketch book” . He became well known…

German Lore Research Paper Outline The legends I chose are “The Morbach Monster” & “Germanic Warriors”. A legend “is a traditional story popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.” Some myths are “The Great Crab” and “The Children’s Crusade”. Myths are about the early history of people or involving supernatural. Fairy Tales are “The Fisherman and his Wife”. A fairytale is about magic and imaginary lands. German folklore has developed over many centuries, it shares many…

wants to complete his Personal Legend: “‘I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.’‘You dream about your sheep and the Pyramids, but you’re different from me because you want to realize your dreams. I just want to dream about Mecca’” (57). Santiago learns from the crystal merchant that everyone has dreams but few are willing to fulfil them, and he is one of the few people who do. The boy had been set on achieving his Personal Legend from the beginning of his…

The Alchemist is about a shepherd named Santiago from a town in Spain, who has a recurring dream about a treasure buried next to the pyramids of Egypt. He meets a man who claims to be the King of Salem, telling Santiago that his Personal Journey is to search for his treasure. The king gives Santiago two stones called Urim and Thummim, which will help him in his times of need. On his journey, he meets an Englishman who introduces him to alchemy. They stop in Al-Fayoum to avoid any interaction…

the primary figure of myths and wisdoms that belonged to ancient Greeks. Greek legends fall into the same primary category, legends being somewhat factual, while myths generally convey some sort of truth. These truths usually present themselves as some sort of revelation, where a dilemma is solved, resulting in some sort of moral gain. What chiefly separates both myth and legend from history is that both myth and legend define our knowledge of history. Our first recorded history of Greece is…