Book review

Book "The Alchemist"

Written by "Paulo Coelho"

 

          It is the review of the book "The Alchemist". it's written by "Paulo Coelho”. it's one of the best and a very famous book. The main reason for the book is to" follow your personal legend”. The story has started with a young boy who was a Shepard b named Santiago? He was living in Andalusia and he wanted freedom in his life. In his life, he was thinking about a girl named Fatima who he met in Tarifa. He was planning to go for meeting her once. One day he took his sheep to go for meeting the girl. On the way, he was going and the day became night. So he was about to rest and stay in a place to start his journey in next day. After this, he slept under a sycamore tree and saw a dream that in Egypt there's a treasure under a tree and calling Santiago to them. Suddenly he walked up. However, it was not the first time that he saw this dream may he saw this dream before some time ago. He planned to find the meaning of this dream at this time. He went to a woman who interpreted. When Santiago shared the story of his dream to her the woman told I can tell you the meaning of the dream but when you achieve your goal, I want the 1/10th of the treasure. Without believing/investigating her, Santiago accepted what she said. Furthermore, he told that you need to go to Egypt where you will find your treasure. With no belief, Santiago was about to have a try. 

    After listening to the woman Santiago started his journey to explore treasure and he sold his sheep to have some money for going towards his journey. When Santiago reached a place named "Tangiers Morocco” directly the Thief came to stop his way and took all whatever he had. Then Santiago was too worried: in hot water, he was but thought not to stop his journey and to go ahead. So he went to a crystal merchant & told him that if I will clean your crystal would you give me food for eating only? When he went to clean his crystal, the merchant loved him and was about to give him a job. for some days Santiago was settled in this place and collected some money. Later on, once again he stood up for his journey. On the way of his journey, he suffered from many difficulties. but he didn't plan to give up on his dream and was about to go further .so for going ahead, he met with a girl from where he falls in love and he married the girl after some days. From there he became very happy with his wife. After a very long time, he talked about the treasure to his wife, the wife suggested him follow his dream. 

    Due to the word of his wife, he planned to finish his mission where he could reach. when he was in Egypt so from Egypt he got something. In where he was told to go in the place to approach your dream and to go under that sycamore tree via which he could get his treasure. With a happy and enjoyable mood, he went back to his place and he found the sycamore tree and finally got all treasure that he was searching for. when he got his treasure, he remembered the interpret woman to whom he told that he will give 1/10th of his treasure than at the end after giving the interpret. He went back to that place where he married and enjoyed with his wife in his life

    The main theme of the book is to never give up on your dream or never give up when difficulties come rather always try to face the challenges of life for being successful.

 

By: Maheen Anwar

The writer is a student in level four class at Ruzhn English Language Center

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