The Alchemist Quotes

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.'' This novel represents the LGBTQ+ community with two young boys falling in love in a world with a vast and unaccepting culture towards their sexuality. The book “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe '' by Benjamin Alire Sáenz shows themes of identity. In the book Aristotle shows this through him struggling to figure out his belonging.

The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna, is a fictional book about a girl named Deka, she was born with darker skin and impure blood, but in her village impure blood was not allowed, so she was beheaded by her father and became a demon. There can be some parallels drawn between the real world and The Gilded Ones. In the book, the characters face real world challenges and learn how to overcome them throughout the book. A parallel in the book is page 149, of the book it states “Our whole lives we’ve been taught to make ourselves smaller, weaker than men”. I believe that this quote represents sexism, in the real world men are treated as superior to women, consequently, they’re “ stronger”, but when we appear as stronger than men they tell us we're being

Being Your Better Self Becoming better benefits a bunch of beings. When you become better, you may not know it, but people around you benefit from you trying to improve. This happens to the main protagonist, Santiago because he strives to become better and everyone and everything’s lives around him improve as well. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago learns, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” To begin, King Melchizedek tries to become better, and in return Santiago becomes better.

It allows people to be more intellectual, rational, develop opinions on certain important and controversial topics, make them question about certain laws without just blindly following them, understand society as a whole, and altogether help the nation to progress and achieve greater heights of

“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important. ”(Granger, from Fahrenheit 451) The vitality of this quote is not a matter of whether or not it’s true; it’s whether or not a society truly believes it. The impact a single person can have on society is apparent in one’s point of view--Is anyone really important? Society today is caught up in the question.

“There is only one way to learn [...] it’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey” (Coelho 129). This quote explains how, in order to learn something, you have to do it and learn from your mistakes. It also describes the theme of the danger of fear by explaining how fear stops people from accomplishing things and actually trying, leading to them being unable to learn. This theme is seen in many ways, for example, in novels such as The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume.

In the book The Alchemist there are alot of quotes meaning and lessons and a lot of meaningful things throughout reading the book. There are alot of life lessons in the Alchemist that all of us can relate to but the one that stood out to me the most was when in page 55 when santiago told the crystal merchant the owner of the crystal shop santiago told him “We have to take advantage when luck is on our side” that really stood out to me. Another quote that stood to me was on page 98 when The Alchemist said to the Englishmen he said “go and try”. A quote that is like a life lesson was when in page 35 the wise men was telling the story to santiago and the wise men said “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never

Its helps you develop the habits and skills of citizenship. These skills are deliberation, debate, cooperation,

It provides leadership skills, social skills, and helps build teamwork. You share your dreams and your goals and help each other achieve them and then you’re there for each other on bad days and you take care of each

, this quote expresses how in one way or another humans are always going to affect each other in the most insignificant ways. Humans are connected, all of their actions and inactions have an effect on others, and how death can have an effect on humankind.

It provide us with a shared set of rights and wrongs on which our social norm depends for existence. Also, it guides a person through the stages of life and show them the way of

Ironic Devices: The author uses situational irony which is foreshadowed . Paulo Coelho begins the novel by introducing the situation, “The boy’s name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as where arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had one stood(Coelho 5). This is situationally ironic because further in the story Santiago returns to this broken place only to discover the treasure was beneath him all along.

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

13 inspiring quotes from the Harry Potter series The pen of J.K.Rowling has surely some kind of charm on it. It has been 20 years since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, but the Harry Potter magic hasn’t waned in this long time period. Translated in 79 languages, sold over 500 millions, this most magical and captivating story is alive in almost every heart. Hidden in this world of magic are the messages of love, friendship, courage, optimism faith and many more inspiring life lessons.

Doctor Faustus is a play written by Christopher Marlowe that tells the story of a brilliant scholar named Faustus who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. The play is a cautionary tale that explores the dangers of ambition, greed and the consequences of making a deal with the devil. Faustus is warned of the consequences but still chooses to make the deal, Faustus uses his powers for selfish purposes and he fails to repent before it's too late. Faustus is warned of the consequences but still chooses to make the deal.