Paulo Coelho

school necessity over pleasure, my spare moments allow me to indulge. These moments either are a result of walking into a library with no direction, or hearing a personal review from a reader. Recently, I walked into a library and found The Zahir by Paulo Coelho, which is based upon the reader’s life, and journey through it, and I was glued. He spoke of this obsession people can gain in life called the Zahir, in his case his wife, until he freed himself. His freedom came from a face-to-face…

The ability to read and write is essential for a human being in this world, yet it remains a privilege. The illiteracy rate around the world is high and there are many people on this earth that have never been given the chance to read and write. Whether the cause of this is war, poverty, or culture, the world is not where it should be today in terms of how many people are literate. This information was told to me constantly as a child and I believe knowing this shaped me into being the…

We experience phases, traumas, struggles, that persist in our lives. These phases and traumas can happen due to certain people, but have the most impact on our very lives. In ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho, and ‘Life of Pi’ directed by Ang Lee, both protagonists became conscious of the things (beliefs and animals) that impact them and their own spiritual journeys that changed their views. As well as in Life of Pi, The Alchemists protagonist Santiago begins to understand the…

Brazilian author Paulo Coelho once wrote, "We can 't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys and griefs we are given." In the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the current society excommunicates those who they deemed more sinful than others. At the time, one of the most scandalous sins was adultery. Hester Prynne was among those who were cast out of society due to their sinful deeds, her’s being of the “worse”. In result, her daughter Pearl was one of…

Based off of Folio discussion #1, my Naked Edge is still the same. According to the article, “The Highest Goal: The Secret that Sustains You in Every Moment”, the literal definition of the Naked Edge is the fourth pitch of a rock climb in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. The fourth pitch of the rock climb is considered to be the hardest part to climb. This means that the fourth pitch is full of challenges and difficulties that you may encounter while climbing the fourth pitch. The metaphorical meaning…

My poetry anthology is a collection of poems that I thoroughly enjoy and relate too. There is no set theme in my poetry anthology. Despite having no set theme, love is a frequent theme in my poetry anthology. Love is a frequent theme because I am a clichéd hopeless romantic who simply loves anything to do with love. Some of the greatest poems come from those who are in love, take W.B Yeats for example who writes of his unrequited love for Maud Gonne. There's a quote that says all lovers are…

The Simple Truths Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Well, it seems like Siddhartha felt this way on more than one occasion. Throughout Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha believes he is near inner enlightenment, but always discovers a new hardship that makes the previous statement evaporate into thin air. He has to feel the evils of riches grip his heart, must discover the loving affects a parent has towards their child, and the…

The condensation from my breath as I awoke from my normal REM cycle was startling, was I still dreaming? I rose to a seated position and looked around me and let out a sigh, the chevy Malibu was still parked next to my 1994 ford explorer and I was still homeless. The thought rang out in my mind as I gazed around me shivering in the back of the truck parked up on the 3rd floor of the Marcus Theater parking garage in Lincoln Nebraska. I had narrowed finding a place to sleep down to a science,…

is a quote from the book Lover Mine by J.R. Ward, this quote mean that sometimes fate is in control our lives and we have no choice in changing our destiny, as some things are made to be, whether we like it or not. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the protagonist Santiago is pushed by fate out of his comfort zone, to embark on his journey to find and fulfil his personal legend and experience “the marvels of the world” (32). His destiny is always controlled by fate, as all his…

In a speech by Paulo Coelho, he stated, “I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed” (Fate Quotes). This shows the idea of fate vs free will. It demonstrations how ones fate is controlled by God, but one has the choice to determine how they will react to his or her own fate. In Sophocles writings of Oedipus the…