The Alchemist: I change my mind too much. I could relate a lot with the main character, of the book The Alchemist, named Santiago, who was a shepherd that did not want to become what his parents wanted him to be, which was a priest, because they were just a simple farm family. And I thought what he did was interesting, which is a journey to the Egypt, to find the treasure he saw in his dream. I think he wanted to experience new things, which is what I can relate to, and is what I'm interested to. I do not have a future dream or things that I want to do to live. So being very free is kind of what I want. In the book, Santiago’s father said people that visited Andalusia, where they lived, came to see new things and they say they would like living there forever, but when they leave, they are basically the same people they were when they arrived. Of course I will have my favorite place if I travel the world, but I still think it could be better than just …show more content…
In the book Ishmael were taken away from the wild and put in a zoo, but then he was rescued by a Holocaust and was taught how to communicate. He spent most of his life in captivity, such as zoos and menageries, and he thought that humans are also living in captivity. Because he learned about human things, how he think about the world became very different from what he would think when he was in the wild. For me, I used to be in Japanese school and when I was in fourth grade, I started going to international school. I think I was nervous at first, because how we learn, play, talk, and just everything was different. In japanese school, we do not really learn about presenting things to the whole class, or to the school, so how I think about things changed. I used just think what I think is right, was right. I might still do that, but right now, when I think about a problem that is bothering me, I talk to people and discuss about
Ishmael has become a living being with no humanity left inside him, which is very different from the concerned, innocent child that he once
He no longer feels as if he has control of his future. Right now he is compelled to do anything possible to survive. Like most children Ishmael is afraid to run away, he decides to join the army. When Ishmael first started off in the war as a solider he felt traumatized, disgusted, and horrified by his experiences. On page 100 Ishmael encounters several dead bodies, it was such a traumatizing experience for him; he felt like he was going to throw up.
He starts to think smarter and travel more cautiously. In addition to this, Ishmael also shows he had acquired intelligence when the secret market was under attack, “I was getting furious, but… I knew I couldn’t afford to lose my temper. The result would be death, since I was now a civilian; I knew that” (205). Prior to living in the rehab center, if Ishmael had been put in the same situation, he most certainly would have snapped and joined the massacre, but while staying with his civilized families, he learned to think about the outcome of his actions beforehand, so he holds his temper and hides
Ishmael has accept the fact that the war has ruined his enjoyment of meeting new people. Because of him going into villages and being chased out because they believed he was a rebel, Or having to go through other villages because he knew nobody there and he knew what was coming to their village and he did not want to stay had ruined the experience for him until later on in his life. Ishmael's experiences force him to deny his emotional side in order to survive. His flight from RUF attacks on the various villages in Sierra Leone requires him to let go of attachments to family and friends. Although he holds out hope to see his family, he has no choice but to close off himself to the world.
One day he was fighting for fun and stealing to survive. Next he was expected to talk about his feelings and make new friends. During their first months in rehabilitation, Ishmael and other boys were constantly in fights. He struggled to adjust to the real world and normal human interaction, after he was a child soldier for two years of living a horrible
After he was a boy soldier, he had to undergo rehabilitation to conform back to typical society. Ishmael did not adjust very smoothly, in fact he took a long time but eventually came around. Ishmael had mental consequences due to war. Ishmael’s
Ishmael’s hometown is attacked by rebels, leading him to embark on a long journey across the country. His journey comes to a stop when he is indoctrinated as a boy soldier and forced to experience the horrors of war from the perspective of a fighter. His journey ends with rehabilitation and a newfound duty to represent the boy soldiers of Sierra Leone. Throughout Ishmael’s journey his perception of the world shifts analogously with his experiences and overall
Which left Ishmael in distress and made him feel like he changed, into a person who he doesn’t know anymore. This Ishmael feel distinct from people, because he felt their judging looks, yet he loved humanity, but the war affected the way he sees the world. Like Ishmael said “He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism-a veteran’s cynicism-was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the war that the world was thoroughly altered.”
But unfortunately, Ishmael 's perspective changes and progresses throughout the story for the worse, because of many traumatizing moments he had experienced, as well as the grief and loss he encountered to
The Importance of Perseverance At many times in people’s lives, they consider giving up. This is also true for Santiago, the protagonist in Paulo Coelho's fantasy novel The Alchemist. Santiago is on a journey to find a hidden treasure he saw in a dream. Along this journey he continues to contemplate whether he should just give up, or continue his adventure.
The Alchemist is a famous book written by Paulo Coelho. It’s about a shepherd named Santiago who travels from his homeland Spain to the Pyramids in Egypt. He does this to find a treasure he was told about. Along his hard journey, he meets some people along the way like a gypsy woman and a king in disguise who all direct him towards his quest. He doesn’t let the obstacles stop him toward his goal and eventually he finds his treasure.
It’s quite clear that Ishmael is shocked and fearful. He discusses the lack of experience of survival tactics, which he still has yet to learn. As he describes the flood of refugees entering his village and notices that most were quite traumatized and mentally damaged. However, he had never experienced anything like this, but he simply felt as if he didn 't have the right mindset to even imagine the horrors of war. The message being portrayed by Ishmael is the rapid transition from joy to terror.
Decision-making through the theory of Existentialism Existentialism is a philosophy which means finding self or finding meaning of life. It is theory which talks about freedom. Paulo Coelho in the novel The Alchemist talks about Santiago’s dilemmas and how he takes decision.
When we are first introduced to protagonist Ishmael Leseur he is seen to be extremely shy with almost no communication skills with his peers in school and is completely unable to defend himself against bullies. At the beginning of the novel Ishmael explains that he wasn't always like this, in fact Ishmael didn't know there anything ‘wrong’ with him until high school where Barry Bagsley began his torments against Ishmael. From the beginning of the book it is
As Douglas Everett once said,"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. " What this essentially means is that there are people who live in dreams, the other’s live in mind and there are some who believe that true meaning of living exists in following their dreams so they try to make their dreams reality. I agree with this quote because some people just dream about things and leave it; while, others don’t believe in dreams at all. Then there are some people who actually try to convert their dreams into reality because they think that dreams are for a reason. This quote is best designed for Paulo Coelho book titled “The Alchemist” as Santiago constantly works to convert his dream into reality