The boy knew what he was about to describe,though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chainthat had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurringdream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to berobbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, andThe closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomeshis true reason for being, thought the boy.The caravan moved toward the east. Select files or add your book in reader. They reached the center of a largeplaza where the market was held. Only when he consents.\"Wait for the end of the war. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger.\"And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: \"Maktub.\"\"You should pay more attention to the caravan,\" the boy said to theEnglishman, after the camel driver had left. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Some men were smoking from a gigantic pipethat they passed from one to the other. He could always go back to being ashepherd. 'You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 15 / 94decided he should go back to being a shepherd. And both you and I needed to cleanse ourminds of negative thoughts.\"When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, \"I'd like youto work in my shop. He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. Did you see the garden that it took the mastergardener ten years to create? They called that discoverythe Master Workit was part liquid and part solid.\"Can't you just observe men and omens in order to understand thelanguage?\" the boy asked.\"You have a mania for simplifying everything,\" answered the Englishman,irritated. So, it's not surprising that kingswould talk to shepherds.\"And he went on, fearing that the boy wouldn't understand what he was Project Gutenberg. Please enter a valid web address. He didn't need to seek out the oldwoman for this! The boy had noticed that the Englishman was irritable, and missed hisbooks.\"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding canunderstand,\" he said. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. The silence was the worst aspect of the night, when the meregroan of a camelwhich before had been nothing but the groan of acamelnow frightened everyone, because it might signal a raid.The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threatof war.\"I'm alive,\" he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, withno fires and no moon. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strongcurrent that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he firstmade the decision.When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I'd wind upworking in a crystal shop, he thought. The boy was also saddened; his friend was in pursuit of hisdestiny. Everyone, when they areyoung, knows what their destiny is.\"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like tosee happen to them in their lives. "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. The boy waited, and then interrupted the old man just as he himself hadbeen interrupted. \"We could place it outside, and attract those people who pass atthe bottom of the hill.\"\"I've never had one before,\" the merchant answered. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 26 / 94\"I can clean up those glasses in the window, if you want,\" said the boy.\"The way they look now, nobody is going to want to buy them.\"The man looked at him without responding.\"In exchange, you could give me something to eat.\"The man still said nothing, and the boy sensed that he was going to have tomake a decision. \"There are rumors of tribal wars,\" he told them.The three fell silent. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 4 / 94The boy was surprised at his thoughts. \"This candy merchant isn't makingcandy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. Something brightreflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarilyblinded. No hope, no adventure, no oldkings or destinies, no treasure, and no Pyramids. If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he wouldpresent one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn't have to worry That's why I'm here. That morning he had knowneverything that was going to happen to him as he walked through thefamiliar fields. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. \"I'm a shepherd, and Ihave been to many places, but I come from only one placefrom a citynear an ancient castle. It had brought with it the sweat and the dreamsof men who had once left to search for the unknown, and for gold andadventureand for the Pyramids. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. The Alchemist a novel by Paulo Coelho. That'swhy I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.\"\"And what if I never get to Egypt?\"\"Then I don't get paid. I thoughtthat someday I'd be rich, and could go to Mecca. \"Alchemy is a serious discipline. Taking the jacket out, he began to clean theglasses. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. Yes, the old man hadknown what he was talking about: during the time the boy had spent in the A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. \"I've seen how the guides readthe signs of the desert, and how the soul of the caravan speaks to the soulof the desert.\"The Englishman said, \"I'd better pay more attention to the caravan.\"\"And I'd better read your books,\" said the boy. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought onlyabout themselves, and almost always refused to help him. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along . Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Thatmorning he had done some calculating: if he continued to work every dayas he had been, he would need a whole year to be able to buy some sheep.\"I'd like to build a display case for the crystal,\" the boy said to themerchant. I shouldhave repeated it for him. It'scalled the principle of favorability. Who knows,maybe they had failed to discover the secret of the Master WorkthePhilosopher's Stoneand for this reason kept their knowledge tothemselves.He had already spent much of the fortune left to him by his father, fruitlesslyseeking the Philosopher's Stone. 2 What did Santiago's parents originally hope he would be when he grew up? \"I had my orchard, my children, anda life that would change not at all until I died. He knew everything about each member ofhis flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth twomonths from now, and which were the laziest. \"Why are you telling me all this?\"\"Because you are trying to realize your destiny. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. The old woman asked him to swearagain while looking at the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\"It's a dream in the language of the world,\" she said. Today, I understand something I didn't see before:every blessing ignored becomes a curse. The boy noticed that the man's clothing was strange. It wouldn't be the first time.\"And the woman told the boy to leave, saying she had already wasted toomuch time with him.So the boy was disappointed; he decided that he would never again believein dreams. They were his treasure. \"Maybe that's why they give up on it so early,too. An alchemist.\"The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss.\"You're in luck, you two,\" the fat Arab said. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 25 / 94He was learning a lot of new things. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. An alchemist would probably live ina manner that was different from that of the rest of the people at the oasis,and it was likely that in his tent an oven was continuously burning. He knew how to shear them,and how to slaughter them. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. But hedecided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. If we serve tea in crystal, the shop is going to expand. People continued to comeand go from the baker's shop. And if the book was irritating, as the old man had said, theboy still had time to change it for another.\"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the worldsay,\" continued the old man. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 49 / 94\"It helped me to trust in people,\" the Englishman answered.Meanwhile, the boy thought about his treasure. The way the content is organized = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter,because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.The levanter increased in intensity. He looked likean Arab, which was not unusual in those parts. What he had to beconcerned about was his treasure, and how he was going to go aboutgetting it. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. The old man,meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to want to returnit at all. But I had to insist on the payment of sixsheep because I helped you to make your decision.\"The boy put the stones in his pouch. *\"I need to sell some wool,\" the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until theafternoon. \"They're only made ofrock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth. I never thoughtI'd end up in a place like this, he thought, as he leafed through the pages ofa chemical journal. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 2 / 94I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. Neither the woman nor the old man were at allimpressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. Anyway, the boy had becomehappy in his work, and thought all the time about the day when he woulddisembark at Tarifa as a winner.\"You must always know what it is that you want,\" the old king had said. But this fear evaporates when we understandthat our life stories and the history of the world were written by the samehand.\"Sometimes, their caravan met with another. But wetwo have to live with our mistakes.\"That's true enough, the boy thought, ruefully.\"Why did you think we should have the display?\" He didn't want tocry with the other people there. In two years he hadlearned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how tocare for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. The most prominent theme in The Alchemist is the idea that each person has a "Personal Legend"a type of ideal fate or destinyand that each person can chose whether or not to pursue that legend. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.\"Let's sell tea to the people who climb the hill.\"\"Lots of places sell tea around here,\" the merchant said.\"But we could sell tea in crystal glasses. The room'sfurnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,and two chairs.The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. Some of them were things that he hadalready experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had neverperceived before. The old manwore a breastplate of gold, and he knew about my past. There areother things I do, too, but most of the time people don't realize I've donethem.\"The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appearbefore a miner, and had taken the form of a stone. Hecouldn't have been wrong.\"I had never heard of alchemists before,\" the boy said. An illustration of an open book. The Soul of the World is nourished bypeople's happiness. \"I have watched the caravan as it crossed the desert,\" hesaid. They filled threesacks. Butchildren always seem to be able to play with them without frightening them.I don't know why. \"But I want one-tenthof the treasure, if you find it.\"The boy laughedout of happiness. One of them, a cobbler whomade his living mending boots, said that he had traveled for almost a yearthrough the desert, but that he got more tired when he had to walk throughthe streets of Tangier buying his leather.\"\"Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?\" asked the boy.\"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. But, finally, he agreed that the boy,who spoke better Arabic than he, should do so. After all, he had all his money. Buthe was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver's comment:maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the pastand the present of all people. The alchemist saw the tribal chiefs greet the leader of thecaravan, and converse with him at length.But none of that mattered to the alchemist. Share to Twitter . 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