heart is, that is where you’ll find you treasure’” (128). While the mind deals with tangible things such as money and people, the heart makes unconscious decisions without using logic, sometimes grasping ideas that the mind cannot even comprehend. The mind isn’t able to grasp these concepts simply because they don’t make logical sense. However, the heart doesn’t know this, and will continue wanting things, and it’s up to the individual, Santiago in this case, to follow these ideas of not. The alchemist
the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, a towel is noted as an essential item. It fact, Ford Prefect speaks so much of it that the towel can be considered a symbol. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value—you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded
I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers…When Jem came home he asked me where I got such a wad. I told him I found it…It was sticking in that tree yonder, the one comin‘ from school…Jem stamped his foot. Don’t you know you’re not supposed to even touch the trees over there? You’ll get killed if you do! (Lee 33-34). The knot-hole was the kids' way of communicating with Boo