Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 28 / 94with shepherds.\"The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought tohimself, and decided to say nothing. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. \"I have watched the caravan as it crossed the desert,\" hesaid. 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. Sonow I'm a camel driver. Then he turned to theboy.\"I am proud of you,\" he said. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. The new arrival was a youngman in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from thiscity. The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. And yet,none of these people has ever met the old king. Themerchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demandedthat the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not becheated. It wouldn't be the first time.\"And the woman told the boy to leave, saying she had already wasted toomuch time with him.So the boy was disappointed; he decided that he would never again believein dreams. Just as you knowthat you're not going to buy your sheep.\"\"Who told you that?\" asked the boy, startled.\"Maktub\" said the old crystal merchant.And he gave the boy his blessing. The boy had never even noticed that there was a hole in his pouch.He knelt down to find Urim and Thummim and put them back in the pouch.But as he saw them lying there on the ground, another phrase came to hismind.\"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them,\" the old king had said.An omen. If he were to say anything, the bakerwould spend three days thinking about giving it all up, even though he hadgotten used to the way things were. \"They wanted me to be apriest, but I decided to become a shepherd.\"\"Much better,\" said the old man. 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. 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. You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes! He was afraid to look around, because he knew what hewould find. He almostbegan to tell about his treasure, but decided not to do so. If he sold just one of hissheep, he'd have enough to get to the other shore of the strait. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives He didn't want tocry with the other people there. It was also saidthat they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and,taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Now it was too late tochange anythingthe only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. Itwas something that I thought could happen only to others, never to me. He thought about asking him togive it back, but decided that would be unfriendly. He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with There were thousands of people there,arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, andcarpets displayed alongside tobacco. Neighbors movedaway, and there remained only a few small shops on the hill. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secretseasily to all his creatures.He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this Theboy repeated his question.\"Why do you want to find that sort of person?\" the Arab asked.\"Because my friend here has traveled for many months in order to meet withhim,\" the boy said.\"If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,\" saidthe old man after thinking for a few moments. He was thinking about omens, and someone hadappeared.\"How come you speak Spanish?\" he asked. This Soul of the World allowedthem to understand anything on the face of the earth, because it was thelanguage with which all things communicated. The next day, he gave his son a pouch that heldthree ancient Spanish gold coins.\"I found these one day in the fields. His eyes filled with tears as he spoke of the Prophet. Other shops were opened that served tea in crystal, but they weren't atthe top of a hill, and they had little business.Eventually, the merchant had to hire two more employees. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. \"Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. \"And, as he smothered the coals in the hookah, he told the boy that he could Take to the fields, and somedayyou'll learn that our countryside is the best, and our women the mostbeautiful.\"And he gave the boy his blessing. "I'm like everyone else-I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.". He decided to stay right there and await his return.As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began hischant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads tothe ground, and took up the chant. He remembered thesword. Since the miner had sacrificed everything to hisdestiny, the old man decided to become involved. He had remembered that one of thecrystal merchant's suppliers transported his crystal by means of caravansthat crossed the desert. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 47 / 94The boy awoke as the sun rose. The boythought back to that conversation with his father, and felt happy; he hadalready seen many castles and met many women (but none the equal of theone who awaited him several days hence). But the alchemists were strange people, who thought onlyabout themselves, and almost always refused to help him. Why did they use suchstrange language, with so many drawings?\"The Englishman didn't answer him directly. And theodor of the animals became a bit more tolerable.A young Arab, also loaded down with baggage, entered, and greeted theEnglishman.\"Where are you bound?\" asked the young Arab.\"I'm going into the desert,\" the man answered, turning back to his reading.He didn't want any conversation at this point. The alchemist saw the tribal chiefs greet the leader of thecaravan, and converse with him at length.But none of that mattered to the alchemist. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 4 / 94The boy was surprised at his thoughts. There was a small building there, with awindow at which people bought tickets to Africa. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with hisherd at an abandoned church. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. Theysearched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than theycould have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.\"We've wasted almost the entire day,\" said the Englishman, sitting downwith the boy near one of the wells.\"Maybe we'd better ask someone,\" the boy suggested.The Englishman didn't want to tell others about his reasons for being at theoasis, and couldn't make up his mind. The oldman was probably a Gypsy, too.But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked upa stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. I hate this tea.\"\"There is no wine in this country,\" the young man said. But the boy never took his eye off hisnew friend. He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. \"What kind of Arab are you?\"\"That's a good luck omen,\" the Englishman said, after the fat Arab had goneout. They climb themountain to see the castle, and they wind up thinking that the past wasbetter than what we have now. *The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it wasseparated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. On the very first page itdescribed a burial ceremony. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 22 / 94The boy wanted to believe that his friend had simply become separatedfrom him by accident. The heat lasted until nightfall, and all that time he had to carryhis jacket. When his vision returned to normal,the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand.There, in the sand of the plaza of that small city, the boy read the names ofhis father and his mother and the name of the seminary he had attended.He read the name of the merchant's daughter, which he hadn't even known,and he read things he had never told anyone. This is aport, and every port has its thieves.\"The boy trusted his new friend. Full Book Summary. And I will tellyou how to find the hidden treasure. There were no wolves in theregion, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy hadhad to spend the entire next day searching for it.He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had justfinished reading as a pillow. Like crickets, and like expectations;like lizards and four-leaf clovers.\"That's right,\" said the old man, able to read the boy's thoughts. He recited an Our Father silently.\"Very interesting,\" said the woman, never taking her eyes from the boy'shands, and then she fell silent.The boy was becoming nervous. 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. God hasprepared a path for everyone to follow. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, hecould return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty. 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. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world'sgreatest lie.\" As long asthe boy knew how to find the best pastures in Andalusia, they would be hisfriends. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. Something brightreflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarilyblinded. \"Imagine if everyone went around transforming leadinto gold. He got up, adjusted his clothing, and picked up hispouch.\"I'll work for you,\" he said.And after another long silence, he added, \"I need money to buy somesheep.\"PART TWOThe boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost a month, andhe could see that it wasn't exactly the kind of job that would make himhappy. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. 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. 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