Alchemist eng presentation
- 2. Presented by: Kiran Shahzadi faria hasan Presented to: Miss Zain Fatima
- 3. A Fable About Following your Dream
- 4. The Alchemist • Author: Paulo Coelho. • Genre: Fiction. • Language: “ Portuguese” translated into 70 Language. • Publisher: Harper One
- 5. About the Author PAULO COELHO
- 6. • He was born on August 24, 1947 in Brazil. The son of Pedro, an engineer. • He belong to a Catholic family. • Paulo’s parents had very different plans for their son’s future. They wanted him to be a engineer and tried to stifle his desire to devote himself to literature. • Coelho wanted to become a writer. • At 17, Coelho's opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. About the Author
- 7. • Coelho later remarked that : "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do” • Coelho worked as a songwriter. • At his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer. • In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, • “A turning point in his life. On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening.”
- 8. • In 1987 Paulo wrote his first book “Pilgrimage” he then wrote “Alchemist” in 1988. • He is now a renowned book writer but he also write for many newspaper. • Create a Guinness world record for being the most translated living author for his Book “Alchemist”
- 9. SUMMARY
- 10. “PART 1”
- 11. • Old woman tells Santiago that this dream is prophetic and that he must follow its instructions. Santiago is uncertain, however, since he enjoys the life of a shepherd. • Next Santiago meets a mysterious old man who seems able to read his mind. This man introduces himself as Melchizedek, or the King of Salem. • Little shepherd boy Santiago is headed to a town where he met a beautiful girl the year before, and is pretty ramped up about it. • While sleeping out in an abandoned church with his sheep, Santiago has a recurring dream. • He explains it to a Gypsy woman ,who tells him that he must go to the pyramids in Egypt to find a hidden treasure.
- 12. • Santiago wavers briefly before selling his flock and purchasing a ticket to Tangier, in northern Africa, to which he travels by boat. Shortly after he arrives there, a thief steals all of Santiago's money. • so the shepherd boy decides to look for a way to make enough money to return home. He finds work in the shop of a crystal merchant, where Santiago makes improvements that reap considerable financial rewards. • He tells Santiago about good and bad omens and says that it is the shepherd boy's duty to pursue his Personal Legend. Melchizedek then gives Santiago two stones, Urim and Thummim, with which to interpret omens. that will help him know what to do when he can't seem to find answers
- 13. “PART 2”
- 14. • After eleven months of working in the shop, Santiago is unsure of how to proceed. Should he return to Andalusia a rich man and buy more sheep? Or should he cross the vast Sahara in pursuit of the hidden treasure of his dreams? • He joins a caravan traveling to Egypt. • Santiago meets an Englishman who wants to learn the secret of alchemy, or turning any metal into gold, from a famous alchemist who lives at an oasis on the way to the pyramids.
- 15. • While traveling, Santiago begins listening to the desert and discovering the Soul of the World. The caravan eventually reaches the oasis, and there Santiago meets an Arab girl named Fatima and falls in love with her instantly. The caravan leader gathers the travelers together and tells them that tribal warfare prevents them from continuing their journey. • Santiago wanders from the oasis into the desert and, seeing two hawks fighting in the sky, has a vision of an army entering the oasis.
- 16. • Because attacking an oasis is a violation of the rules of the desert, Santiago shares his vision with the oasis's tribal chieftain. Soon afterward, Santiago is confronted by a black-garbed, veiled stranger with a sword, who sits atop a white horse. • It was the Alchemist. • The tribal chieftain arms his men, and they are well-prepared when the oasis is indeed invaded. The alchemist offers to cross the desert with Santiago. • Soon the two men enter into an area of intense tribal warfare.
- 17. • Warriors hold the two men captive, but eventually allow them to continue their journey. The alchemist tells Santiago that he needs to return to the oasis, and that the rest of the trip is Santiago's to make alone so that he can claim his Personal Legend. • Santiago arrives at the Egyptian pyramids and begins to dig. He finds nothing buried in the ground. Thieves beat Santiago and rob him of his money. After he tells them of his dream, though, one of the thieves recounts his own dream about a buried treasure in the sacristy of an abandoned church. •
- 18. • Returning to Andalusia, Santiago goes back to the church where he dreamed of the treasure near the pyramids. He digs where he slept, beneath a sycamore tree, and there • It is santiago's treasure.
- 19. Elements of the story
- 20. Characters Santiago: • An adventurous young shepherd determined to fulfill his Personal Legend, which is to find a treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He is the book's protagonist. • . He is determined, headstrong, and curious to learn all he can about the world.
- 21. Characters Alchemist A 200-year-old, extremely powerful alchemist residing in the Al-Fayoum Oasis. He dresses in black, rides a white horse, and carries a scimitar, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Elixir of Life. he understands the Soul of the World and the importance of Personal Legends. :
- 22. Characters : Crystal Merchant A struggling merchant who owns a crystal shop on top of a desolate hill. He is a good-hearted, devout Muslim Englishman A well-educated science student determined to learn the secrets of alchemy by learning from a true alchemist. He is a skeptic and loves reading his books.
- 23. Characters Melchizedek: The King of Salem. He appears to possess magical powers and helps those pursuing their Personal Legends. Fatima : A beautiful and chaste young "desert woman" who lives at the Al-Fayoum Oasis. She understands that she must allow Santiago to travel in pursuit of his dream.
- 24. Characters The Monk A welcoming Coptic monk living in a monastery near the pyramids of Egypt. Gypsy: An old women living in Tarifa who interprets dreams. She reads palms and uses black-magic iconography, but she also keeps images of Christ.
- 25. Characters The Tribal Chieftain of Al-Fayoum A strict and ruthless tribal chieftain who lives in luxury. He enforces Al-Fayoum's status as a neutral ground and believes in dreams and omens. Merchant - A merchant who buys wool from Santiago on a yearly basis. He worries about being cheated so he demands that any wool he buys be sheared from the sheep in his presence. Caravan Leader : The bold leader of a caravan traveling across the Sahara Desert from Tangier to Egypt.
- 26. Santiago’s sheep: Santiago’s sheep symbolize the sort of existence lived by those who are completely blind to their Personal Legends. Santiago loves his sheep, but he also expresses thinly veiled disrespect for them because of their animal desires for mere food and water. These sheep symbolize the characters in the book like the baker and the crystal merchant who do not pursue their Personal Legends. Symbols
- 27. Alchemy: Symbols Alchemy, in which a base metal is transformed into a more valuable metal like gold, functions as the dominant symbol in The Alchemist and represents Santiago’s journey to achieve his Personal Legend. The symbol also gives the novel its title. The Alchemist describes the process of turning base metal to gold as equivalent to the base metal realizing its Personal Legend.
- 28. The Desert: The desert, with its harsh conditions and tribal wars, symbolizes the serious difficulties that await anyone in pursuit of their Personal Legend, but it also serves as an important teacher to Santiago during his journey to the pyramids. As the alchemist puts it, tests are an inherent part of all Personal Legends, because they are necessary to create spiritual growth. Symbols
- 29. Analysis of the book
- 30. Main Characters Santiago The Alchemist The crystal merchant Melchizedek Englishman Fatima
- 31. Setting Place- “The main plot of Alchemist takes place in the Spanish Pastures, the Spanish town of Tarifa the city of Tangier In North Africa, and the Sahara desert.”
- 32. th Setting Time- “The Alchemist is set in an indistinct time In the past. It is clearly pre modern time Before automobiles and most modern technology Existed.”
- 33. Theme
- 34. Theme The danger of fear Unity of Nature Personal Legend Love Dreams
- 35. “Without love ,according to The Alchemist ,our lives are incomplete.” Once Santiago Discovers unconditional love in the person of Fatima, however, there is little he cannot accomplish. Love
- 36. Dream Dreams are central to The Alchemist’s action as well as its meaning. Santiago’s dream the novel’s inciting incident ,and the author’s primary message seems to be that we should flow our dreams.
- 37. Personal Legend According to the Alchemist : “Personal Legends serve as the only means by which an individual can live a satisfying life.” We see when Santiago just give up his flock and leave Fatima, material success and even love pose obstacles to Santiago achieving his personal Legend and must be delayed or ignored together.
- 38. Personal legend Those who put off their Personal Legends, such as the crystal merchant, suffer regret and fail to experience the wealth and other favors that the universe bestows upon those who follow their personal legends. In the novel, alchemy , the central symbol of the book ,entails coaxing metal to achieve its own personal legends to turn into gold.
- 39. Unity of Nature “This notion of human ,metal and all other things sharing the same goal demonstrates that all element in the nature are essentially different forms of a single spirit.” Furthurmore,over and over again we see that Santiago must communicate with nature in what the novel calls the common language of the world. Santiago's horse ,for instance, communicate with him by showing evidence of life in an apparently barren expanse of desert.
- 40. The Danger of Fear Fear persistently comes up throughout Santiago's journey as the primary obstacle to Santiago’s successfully achieving his personal legend. Santiago experience several forms of fear. • A childhood fear of having gypsy woman interpret his dream. • A material fear of losing his wealth be departing to tangier or by joining the desert caravan.
- 41. The Danger of Fear • The physical fear of dying in the battle at Al-Fayoum and the spiritual fear that he will fail to turn himself into the wind when the alchemist forces him to try. • Fear, they suggest, should become irrelevant, even in the face of death, if you faithfully pursue your dreams. • Just as those who disregard fear appear as enlightened figures, fear dominates The Alchemist’s weakest characters. The crystal merchant in particular represents someone who has allowed fear to rule his life.
- 42. PLOT OF THE STORY
- 43. Exposition • “In the exposition Santiago is a shepherd. He choose to be a shepherd since he wanted to travel the world. With his flock he rests at an abandons church, with a sycamore tree in Andalusia Spain. He seems to have • Reoccurring dream. Where is in the pyramid of Giza in Egypt. He decides that this dream might mean something, so he goes to gypsie,she tell him that it was a personal legend and that it find treasure at the pyramid”
- 44. Rising Action “Santiago makes a series of material sacrifices in order to peruse his personal legend to reach the pyramids of Egypt
- 45. Climax “Santiago struggles to turn himself into the wind while being held warring tribesman in the Sahara Desert”
- 46. Falling Action “Santiago arrives at the pyramids but in twist , he must go back to Spain as he learn that his treasure was buried in an abandoned church by a sycamore tree where he started his journey”
- 47. Denoument “Santiago reaches Spain and finds the abandoned church. Buried under the sycamore was his treasure. He was going to pay the one tenth to the gypsy and go back to Fatima ,who was waiting for him.”
- 48. Conflict: “The major conflict about the book is Santiago's personal tension between completing his personal legend to travel all the way to Egypt to find a treasure at the pyramids and settling along the way for the treasure he has already earned”
- 49. Moral Lesson
- 50. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- 51. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
- 52. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
- 53. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Editor's Notes
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