Yoon‐Jo, Park
Hum.Pink
Ms. Smith
A Model for Our Lives
“Well, I’d like to see their land, and see how they live.”(Coelho 9)
Santiago, the protagonist in the novel ‘The Alchemist,’ is a boy who seeks to travel, and the destiny of his is also to travel. Santiago’s parents wanted him to become a priest, but he insisted and became a shepherd for his nature was to be free and soar around the region. He starts to have weird dreams continuously and realizes that it’s a sign from the gods to admit his destiny and seek places that he has never known. Santiago’s characteristic could be described as courageous, adventurous, and wise.
“When ever he could, he sought out a new road to travel.”(Coelho 10)
When Santiago first figured out that he was fated to travel to a new land that he had never known before, he didn’t hesitate because of fear but because of the woman he loved and the life he had already achieved in Andalusia. Normally, it takes great courage to decide to travel alone without any aids at first. Additionally about the Alchemist. The first impression of the Alchemist was a fearful, dangerous character. He pointed his sword to Santiago driving him to the edge asking questions that only someone that understands certain omens from the god can answer. However, Santiago didn’t show his fear to the Alchemist and claimed everything that he knew without hesitation. Even at the most dangerous moment of his life, Santiago managed to put himself together and this kind of acts of Santiago is indeed courageous. By being courageous, he was able to overcome many obstacles during his journey.
“Because I like to travel.” (Coelho 21)
That was what Santiago replied to Melchizedek when he asked why he became a shepherd. He was adventurous, and because he liked to travel, he could make his decision soon after he received his destiny. If not, he could’ve hesitated to decide whether he would go for weeks and months, or even worse, refuse the call to the adventure. It was his dream to travel around the world and know stuff that he didn’t know about. He wanted to understand how the others lived and seek through out the parts of the world he didn’t know. Because it was his dream, he could still go forward even though he faced many obstacles during his journey.
“I have watched the caravan as it crossed the desert. The caravan and the desert speak the same language, and it’s for that reason that the desert allows the crossing.”(Coelho 75) When Santiago first set up his foot to begin his journey, he was helpless and completely blank about the language of the world, soul of the world, or even how the region Africa was like. After spending several months in Africa, he widened his knowledge about the world shockingly swiftly. Santiago was able to understand the soul and language of the world and could even stand out phrases that proves that he is worthy of receiving the destiny. Not only he understood the soul and language of the world, but he was accepted by the Alchemist who can be referred as one of the wisest man around and was pointed as his apprentice. Of course he did have some help around but mainly he ended up solving his own problems on his own by using his own wisdom.
Santiago is truly appropriate character for a protagonist who is seeking his goal and achieving it. By being courageous, adventurous and wise he could accomplish his goal to seek the treasure and by being responsible he could win Fatima’s love and earn a new life with a lover. Paulo Coelho made Santiago a model for our lives. Santiago is a type of character will all the aspects of people would like. Not giving up on goals, being courageous and responsible. Coelho would've liked to show the readers of his book how people can be shown if they have certain characteristics like Santiago and to tell them to not give up even in the most dangerous lethal situation they could get and eventually, you will end up with fortune.
Sanguine: An tool for brightenss
Being sanguine is an essential characteristic for seeking destiny. You can’t always say that everything will turn out easily and smooth. Sometimes there will be challenges and obstacles that will put me to despair or depress me badly. If someone seeking his destiny is sanguine, he will easily be able to overcome the depression of failing and be able to set up foot and challenge himself again to his destiny. I am generally a sanguine person. I easily forget sadness and become cheerful again such as I don't get frustrated or sad about conflicts with other people or with something that irritates me so bad such as getting low scores or getting scolded by teachers. I quickly get over the frustration and try again to approve meyself to other and by this I was able to achieve quite a few goals with my sanguine characteristic. However, being sanguine is not always appropriate. Being sanguine continuously could easily be thought as ‘stupid.’ Being sanguine acquires consideration every time.
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