Alchemy In The Alchemist

Alchemy In The Alchemist

If someone would want to find their own personal treasure, would someone want to find it with the right people? In Paulo Coelho's fictional novel, "The Alchemist", Santiago, a shepherd boy in Andalusia makes a heroic journey to find his treasure and his own Personal Legend. After meeting a gypsy and a mysterious king, Santiago leaves his sheep and travels to North Africa. There he meets a crystal merchant, an Englishman, and the Alchemist himself. Throughout his journey, he experiences robbery, leads an army, and eventually uses alchemy. In his journey, some helpers and guides he meets are the gypsy, the crystal merchant, and the Englishman; and each of them would help Santiago in find his personal legend. One of the guides Santiago meets is a gypsy woman in Andalusia. This woman tells Santiago where to go to find treasure. She tells him to go to the Pyramids of Egypt. Santiago would find "treasure that will make you a rich man" (Coelho 17). The gypsy helps Santiago in finding his personal legend by telling him where to find his personal legend. Without the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Before meeting the crystal merchant, Santiago experiences robbery. After this, he goes to a crystal merchant and cleans all his crystal glasses without authority from the crystal merchant. When Santiago and the crystal merchant meet, he gives him a job. For months Santiago "[stays] with the job because the merchant, although he was an old grouch, treated him fairly; the boy received good commission for each piece he sold..." (Coelho 53). Without the crystal merchant's presence in Santiago's journey, he wouldn't be able to continue on his journey. He would have remained stranded on North Africa, in a place where he doesn't understand the language. He would not have had any money to go back home to Andalusia. The crystal merchant helps Santiago on his journey by giving him money to continued his

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