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Comparing Ambition In The Alchemist And Marita's Bargain

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In life, ambition is the motivation for goals and goals help people reach personal satisfaction within themselves. In order for order for goals to be achieved and personal satisfaction is achieved, to the point in which one feels successful, one must go through a process that might be easy for some people and hard for others. Success has a different meaning for everyone, and according to Anna Quindlen “if your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” In order to achieve, we have to believe. Santiago the main character of the Alchemist, and Marita the main character from Marita’s Bargain are both similar but different. While they both have the same end goal, along their journey to get to their, they go through different processes and encounter …show more content…

She knew that her situation wasn’t the best, and that the KIPP school was going to help her get to her end goal; graduate from college and live a better life out of poverty. Both characters ambition to have what they could never have, motivated them to go to their goal. While Santiago was able to find his treasure and travel, Marita was able to go to college and strive for a better tomorrow. Hard work pays off and in order for hard work to pay off , one must go through a process in order to get to that end goal. Every goal is like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, in order for you to find it you have to follow the rainbows path. Marita and Santiago, had to take steps that were hard but guided them to their goal after all. But this process was influenced by influencers and influences through their journey, that either taught them something valuable or helped them reach their end goal. In the Alchemist “if he (Santiago) hand believed in the significance of recurrent dreams, he would not have met the Gypsy woman, the king, the thief, or... ‘well its a long list’” (pg, 169). Santiagos recurrent dreams gave

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