'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' And no onewas going to climb the hill just to browse through a few small shops.But the crystal merchant had no choice. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. He had been to the village only once, the year before. We're only two hours from Spain.\"\"Sit down, and let me treat you to something,\" said the boy. Because life wantsyou to achieve your destiny,\" the old king had said.But the merchant understood what the boy had said. I don't want anything else in life.But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have neverknown. There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. 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. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. 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. I need to buy my sheep back, so I have to earn themoney to do so.\" \"I promised that I would make my own decisions,\" he said tohimself.But the stones had told him that the old man was still with him, and thatmade him feel more confident. Although his new worldat the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it whenit was teeming with life, and he would never forget it. 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. The miner was about to give it all up, right atthe point when, if he were to examine just one more stonejust one morehe would find his emerald. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 3 / 94\"How did you learn to read?\" the girl asked at one point.\"Like everybody learns,\" he said. Our Teacher Edition on The Alchemist can help. 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 boy awoke before dawn. 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. Perhaps to a baker, or to another shepherd who could read andcould tell her exciting storiesafter all, he probably wasn't the only one. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 7 / 94makes a shepherd's life exciting.\"I have had the same dream twice,\" he said. Itmade me very depressed. \"The shepherd said nothing. 2 What did Santiago's parents originally hope he would be when he grew up? Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. Summary Read one-minute Sparklet summaries, the detailed section-by-section Summary & Analysis, or the Full Book Summary of The Alchemist . \"I know other girls in other places.\"But in his heart he knew that it did matter. The new arrival was a youngman in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from thiscity. As the time passed, the boy found himself wishing that theday would never end, that her father would stay busy and keep him waitingfor three days. Heneeded someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility ofwar.\"I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soulcan also understand the language of things. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe madean effort to help him succeedthat's what the old king had said. He must be disguised to avoid encounters withthieves.\"Take these,\" said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stonethat had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. It'scalled the principle of favorability. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. We have to take advantage whenluck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. That was the law ofhospitality. Yes, the old man hadknown what he was talking about: during the time the boy had spent in the *Then one day the boy returned the books to the Englishman. He thought for a moment that it would be better to pay herfee and leave without learning a thing, that he was giving too muchimportance to his recurrent dream.\"You came so that you could learn about your dreams,\" said the old woman.\"And dreams are the language of God. I need to know whether you have enough.\"The boy thought it a strange question. There, he couldexchange his book for a thicker one, fill his wine bottle, shave, and have ahaircut; he had to prepare himself for his meeting with the girl, and he didn'twant to think about the possibility that some other shepherd, with a largerflock of sheep, had arrived there before him and asked for her hand. The boy noticed that the man's clothing was strange. Even the guides spoke very little to one another.\"I've crossed these sands many times,\" said one of the camel drivers onenight. Maybe that'swhy they always stay close to me.The only things that concerned the sheep were food and water. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. 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. The desert is acapricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.\" I don't know how to turn them into reality. Enough to buy himself a hundred and twentysheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into hisown country. I know its dimensions andhow it behaves. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Here I am, between my flock and mytreasure, the boy thought. That morning he had knowneverything that was going to happen to him as he walked through thefamiliar fields. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. Although the boy had developed a superstition that each time heopened the book he would learn something important, he decided it was anunnecessary burden.He became friendly with the camel driver who traveled alongside him. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. This Soul of the World allowedthem to understand anything on the face of the earth, because it was thelanguage with which all things communicated. \"I have the money I need to buy my sheep.And you have the money you need to go to Mecca.\"The old man said nothing.\"Will you give me your blessing?\" asked the boy. In return, I needmoney to get to Egypt tomorrow.\"The merchant laughed. Download The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book PDF. He had learned some important things, like how todeal in crystal, and about the language without words and about omens.One afternoon he had seen a man at the top of the hill, complaining that itwas impossible to find a decent place to get something to drink after such aclimb. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. There was afull moon, and the boy told the Englishman the story of his life.The Englishman was fascinated with the part about the progress achieved atthe crystal shop after the boy began working there.\"That's the principle that governs all things,\" he said. They climb themountain to see the castle, and they wind up thinking that the past wasbetter than what we have now. He thought that the horizon was a bitlower than it had been, because he seemed to see stars on the desert itself.\"It's the oasis,\" said the camel driver.\"Well, why don't we go there right now?\" the boy asked.\"Because we have to sleep.\" * We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognizethat it is working for us. Maybe theworld had other hidden treasures, but he had a dream, and he had met witha king. He called to the boy, andthey took a walk along the dunes surrounding the encampment. Hewas a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live hislife in accordance with Muslim law.\"What's the fifth obligation?\" the boy asked.\"Two days ago, you said that I had never dreamed of travel,\" the merchantanswered. He thought about asking him togive it back, but decided that would be unfriendly. He didn't consider mending the holethe stonescould fall through any time they wanted. That's why I'm here. And he hadn't perceived them because he had becomeaccustomed to them. No hope, no adventure, no oldkings or destinies, no treasure, and no Pyramids. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. pdf INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, 2012 Brahim EL FEZZAZI Paulo Coelho Full PDF Package This Paper A short summary of this paper 1 Full PDF related to this paper Download Download Full PDF Package Translate PDF \"Even if you cleaned my crystal for an entire yeareven if you earned a good commission selling every piece, you would stillhave to borrow money to get to Egypt. 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. 70,081 free ebooks. One afternoon, on a visit to his family,he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn't want tobecome a priest. Maybe God created the desert so that mancould appreciate the date trees, he thought.He decided to concentrate on more practical matters. The boy noted that there was a sense of fear in the air,even though no one said anything. 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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 34 / 94and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.Tangier was no longer a strange city, and he felt that, just as he hadconquered this place, he could conquer the world.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieveit,\" the old king had said.But the old king hadn't said anything about being robbed, or about endlessdeserts, or about people who know what their dreams are but don't want torealize them. Just by looking at them. He had done this for years, and knew the schedule of everyonewho passed. \"The caravan and the desert speak the same language, and it's forthat reason that the desert allows the crossing. That's the world'sgreatest lie.\"\"That's never happened to me,\" the boy said. Read key facts, the plot summary, and important quotes . = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. *At the highest point in Tarifa there is an old fort, built by the Moors. I can learn something from the desert, too. ISBN -7225-3293-8. Arabs oftenappeared in the city, shopping and chanting their strange prayers severaltimes a day.\"Where are you from?\" the boy asked.\"From many places.\"\"No one can be from many places,\" the boy said. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. He transformed himselfinto a stone that rolled up to the miner's foot. Urim and Thummim.It made the boy think of the old king, and it startled him to realize how longit had been since he had thought of him. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. It had been eleven months and nine dayssince he had first set foot on the African continent.He dressed in his Arabian clothing of white linen, bought especially for thisday. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals alsobegan to stir. 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. He wept because God was unfair, and because this wasthe way God repaid those who believed in their dreams.When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy.People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. The boy could see in his father's gaze adesire to be able, himself, to travel the worlda desire that was still alive,despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under theburden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place tosleep every night of his life. 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