Sacrifice In The Alchemist

In the play The Crucible, the theme of sacrifice is often necessary in order to restore social order. Throughout the play various characters give up something in order to respectively gain something that is more important. The word sacrifice is defined as the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. Although characters in The Crucible are able to keep something they want in certain circumstances, they also lose things that are very important to them such as their reputation, or even themselves. One example of sacrifice occurring in the play is the very situation where John Proctor, a tormented individual, admits to having an affair with Abigail and categorizes himself as an adulterer.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both their own and the enemies ~Napoleon. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, McMurphy, a medical ward patient, dominates a battle of superiority with a very controlling woman named Nurse Ratchet. However in a surprising twist of events, Nurse Ratchet manages to beat McMurphy after he attacks her. Some may argue that McMurphy won the battle because of the state of the ward that he had left it in, however this allowed her to restart her empire at the ward and be able to finish McMurphy once and for all.

Brandon Brennan Brennan 1 Mr. Julien AP English 12 15 July 2015 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -2014 Prompt What a person values is said to only be determined by what they knowingly sacrifice, surrender, or forfeit. Religion, is an example of this in that a person will sacrifice certain aspects of their lives for their religious values.

Paulo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago a Shepard whose life changes once he finds out about a treasure from his frequent dreams and meets a strange man who helps him to start his personal legend. On Santiago’s journey he starts to see the hidden meanings behind daily life creating the thesis that through seeing and understanding symbols behind the world people can learn about their own personal legend and live life to the fullest. Santiago’s life starts out all about his sheep, he chose to be a shepherd, so he could travel and meet new people. Santiago’s job is to take care of the sheep, but the sheep have more meaning in the story. The sheep represent how he is comfortable in his life and how he is questioning his frequent dream, to sacrifice his comfortable life to find this treasure or to continue without taking the risk.

In The Awakening the main character Edna is going through a life changing event. Edna unfortunately is living in an era where women are supposed to be dependent and devoted to their husbands and a full time mother. Edna doesn’t want to play that role anymore and she wants to become independent. Edna’s want for independence and becoming her own person is finally achieved when she sacrifices her life and kills herself. Edna sacrificing her life shows how her values begin to change from only caring about her family’s needs to now caring about her own needs/wants.

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.

When Crispin finds a living person, he got the urge to go up to him. He is forced to promise to stay with this new man, Bear, and that was his first, with many to follow, discovery that he madekes. In order for Bear to keep Crispin in a servile way, he made Crispin swear “on the sacred name of Jesus” (chp. 18 pg 81). Also, when Bear discovers that Crispin has a cross made of lead, Bear demands to see it, and he reads the writing on the side, refusing to tell Crispin what it said.

In Paulo Coelho 's book The Alchemist, Coelho suggests that life is valuable when there is balance of the pursuit of a “personal legend”, and being happy. Early in the book the protagonist meets a wise-old king, who educates him on life and its purpose. The wise old man tells a story of a boy who sought the same answer as he did, in his story the boy meets this all-knowing wise man and asks for the meaning of life. The old-man gives him the menial task of balancing oil in a spoon and to see the beauty of his house.

A story that begins with the struggle for acceptance which leads to a life struggle for redemption. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the story of Amir, an Afghan kid who after witnessing his life fall apart is set in a life of escaping his guilt and regrets, until finally is forced to make the decision to face them and fight for atonement. In the story, Kites are depicted all throughout it and are used by Hosseini to portray the main themes that compose the story, and the conflicts and struggles that the characters experience. In the book, Hosseini used Kites to represent the major themes in the story for they portray the characters happiness and guilt plus the main things that compose the story.

This is illuminated when the Alchemist says, “‘There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure’” (141). This particular moment shows that even though Santiago has both the ability and the knowledge to achieve his dream, it is impossible to attain it if he fears even attempting to reach it. Consequently, this fear acts as his enemy and a barrier that stands in the way of the meaningful and happy life he is destined to accomplish. Furthermore, another one of his fears is the fear of losing what he believes he has already earned. ” He reminded himself that he had been a shepherd and that he could be a shepherd again.

When reading The Alchemist, it amazed me how much I could identify with the book. A quote from the book I really related to was, “He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have,” (Coelho 30) I wanted to be happy, I wanted

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

In life, many occurrences are meant to connect with our fate. A simple decision to either follow an instinct or ignore it symbolizes an individual’s life and destiny. In the novel, “The Alchemist”, by Paulo Coelho, the story is narrated to leave behind symbols of life. Throughout the journey lived by Santiago, his encounters left principles to consider. “God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and marvels of his wisdom(131).”

What are the goals and dreams that you want to accomplish in life? Are you willing to suffer for them, or do you expect to achieve them with ease? The statement “Suffering is an important part of attaining your dreams or goals” is a very well founded statement. The novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Focuses on the theme of following your dreams and personal legend.

ONCE UPON A TIME……………... As children, when those magical words are spoken to us, we begin to REMEMBER and unknowingly reconnect with the truth about ourselves deep within our souls * (For a summary of Coelho’s The Alchemist, go to the appendix at the end of this book.) This truth is that here on Earth each of us is a dream; a dream waiting to become a reality.