Full Book Summary. It was only theEnglishman who was unaware of all this; he was, for the most part,immersed in reading his books.The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the first fewdays of the journey. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. I'm afraid that if mydream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.\"You dream about your sheep and the Pyramids, but you're different fromme, because you want to realize your dreams. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. Just handling them made himfeel better. 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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 6 / 94It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried hispace. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 39 / 94There were almost two hundred people gathered there, and four hundredanimalscamels, horses, mules, and fowl. \"If you start out by promising what youdon't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.\"The boy told him that he had already promised to give one-tenth of histreasure to the Gypsy.\"Gypsies are experts at getting people to do that,\" sighed the old man. The only thing he had noticed was that talk ofwar was becoming more and more frequent. Why not?He suddenly felt tremendously happy. The old king hadn't told him that the Pyramids were just a pileof stones, or that anyone could build one in his backyard. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hearthem. That morning he had knowneverything that was going to happen to him as he walked through thefamiliar fields. Everywherethere were stalls with items for sale. It's with those words that the universal language is written. When you want something with all your heart, that'swhen you are closest to the Soul of the World. \"I know other girls in other places.\"But in his heart he knew that it did matter. But there was one idea thatseemed to repeat itself throughout all the books: all things are themanifestation of one thing only.In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literatureof alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on thesurface of an emerald.\"It's the Emerald Tablet,\" said the Englishman, proud that he might teachsomething to the boy.\"Well, then, why do we need all these books?\" the boy asked.\"So that we can understand those few lines,\" the Englishman answered,without appearing really to believe what he had said. He wept because God was unfair, and because this wasthe way God repaid those who believed in their dreams.When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy.People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. As they satdown at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed.\"You didn't have to do any cleaning,\" he said. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. He didn't need to seek out the oldwoman for this! I shouldhave repeated it for him. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. Just as I hadn't realized that for so many years Ihad been speaking a language without words to my sheep.\"Do you want to go to work for me?\" the merchant asked.\"I can work for the rest of today,\" the boy answered. The most prominent theme in The Alchemist is the idea that each person has a "Personal Legend"a type of ideal fate or destinyand that each person can chose whether or not to pursue that legend. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 46 / 94\"Go back to watching the caravan,\" he said. His parents had wanted him to become apriest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. Hewas a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live hislife in accordance with Muslim law.\"What's the fifth obligation?\" the boy asked.\"Two days ago, you said that I had never dreamed of travel,\" the merchantanswered. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. In just a few hours he had seen menwalking hand in hand, women with their faces covered, and priests thatclimbed to the tops of towers and chantedas everyone about him went totheir knees and placed their foreheads on the ground.\"A practice of infidels,\" he said to himself. 1 of 25. \"Amongst us, the only ones who travel arethe shepherds.\"\"Well, then I'll be a shepherd!\"His father said no more. When youare unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. I've already imagined the people who would be \"How many sheep do youhave?\"\"Enough,\" said the boy. Some of them were things that he hadalready experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had neverperceived before. Find out who it is who cures the people's illnesses!\"Several women dressed in black came to the well for water, but the boywould speak to none of them, despite the Englishman's insistence. But he decided to take a chance. 19362 likes. And you are at the pointwhere you're about to give it all up.\"\"And that's when you always appear on the scene?\"\"Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another.Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution, or a good idea. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. And he knew that Egyptwas in Africa.\"Can I help you?\" asked the man behind the window.\"Maybe tomorrow,\" said the boy, moving away. He looked around at the empty plaza again,feeling less desperate than before. As theysat around the fire, the camel drivers exchanged information about Noteveryone can see his dreams come true in the same way. I need to know whether you have enough.\"The boy thought it a strange question. Our Teacher Edition on The Alchemist can help. Taking the jacket out, he began to clean theglasses. An alchemist.\"The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss.\"You're in luck, you two,\" the fat Arab said. Youcould build one in your backyard.\"\"You've never had dreams of travel,\" said the boy, turning to wait on acustomer who had entered the shop.Two days later, the merchant spoke to the boy about the display.\"I don't much like change,\" he said. When he had finished his smoke,he reached into one of his pockets, and sat there for a few moments,regarding what he had withdrawn.It was a bundle of money. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 28 / 94with shepherds.\"The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. Itwas something that I thought could happen only to others, never to me. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 21 / 94He took his money from his pouch and showed it to the young man. When the people saw thatstar shining in the morning sky, they knew they were on the right coursetoward water, palm trees, shelter, and other people. He had worked for an entire year to make a dream cometrue, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important.Maybe because that wasn't really his dream.Who knows maybe it's better to be like the crystal merchant: never go toMecca, and just go through life wanting to do so, he thought, again tryingto convince himself. The boy knew a lot of people in the city. Then she again took his hands andstudied them carefully.\"I'm not going to charge you anything now,\" she said. In those days it had been wonderful to beselling crystal, and he had thought how he would become rich, and havebeautiful women at his side as he grew older.But, as time passed, Tangier had changed. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. But then he remembered that he wasn't going to have topay anything.\"I didn't need to waste my time just for this,\" he said.\"I told you that your dream was a difficult one. But instead of being saddened, he was happy. \"They are calledUrim and Thummim. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 15 / 94decided he should go back to being a shepherd. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' If the sand was too finefor the animals' hooves, they sought a way where the sand was moresubstantial. It had been eleven months and nine dayssince he had first set foot on the African continent.He dressed in his Arabian clothing of white linen, bought especially for thisday. He took out his money and counted it.\"We could get to the Pyramids by tomorrow,\" said the other, taking themoney. He didn't want tocry with the other people there. The sheep hadtaught him that.If God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man, he thought, and thatmade him feel better. They placed the symbolsof the pilgrimage on the doors of their houses. From there, he could see Africa inthe distance. And yet,none of these people has ever met the old king. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 31 / 94The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply.\"I've had this shop for thirty years. Heknew it would require a lot of patience, but shepherds know all aboutpatience. He recalled that when the sun had risen thatmorning, he was on another continent, still a shepherd with sixty sheep, andlooking forward to meeting with a girl. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. Curse the moment I met that oldman, he thought. \"I'm herebecause a friend of mine heard of an Arab who\"But the caravan began to move, and it was impossible to hear what theEnglishman was saying. That's why I'm here in the middle of the desert.I'm seeking a true alchemist who will help me to decipher the codes.\"\"When were these books written?\" the boy asked.\"Many centuries ago.\"\"They didn't have the printing press in those days,\" the boy argued. As a child in church, he hadalways looked at the image of Saint Santiago Matamoros on his white horse,his sword unsheathed, and figures such as these kneeling at his feet. If it were, hewould already have heard of it.\"And what do you do in Salem?\" he insisted.\"What do I do in Salem?\" The old man laughed. But I'm afraid that it would all be a disappointment, so I preferjust to dream about it.\"That day, the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display. As he took his jacket out of the pouch, thinking to give it tosomeone in the street, the two stones fell to the floor. 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. If he were to tire of the Andalusianfields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. *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. In this version of the story, the goddess of the forest encounters the lake in which Narcissus drowned. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of theflowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. 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. The years of research, the magicsymbols, the strange words and the laboratory equipment none of thishad made an impression on the boy. I don't want to changeanything, because I don't know how to deal with change. The othersare to pray five times a day, fast during Ramadan, and be charitable to thepoor.\"He stopped there. He had never beento that ruined church before, in spite of having traveled through those partsmany times. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 7 / 94makes a shepherd's life exciting.\"I have had the same dream twice,\" he said. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. He no longer hadto seek out food and water for the sheep; he could go in search of histreasure, instead. Uponreturning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.\" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' 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