TUESDAY REVIEW || NOVEL: THE ALCHEMIST by Paul Coelho || by @musfirah-m

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing well.

I am the person who loves to read books.Some days ago, I was recommended a book named "The Alchemist" by my friend @vvarishayy .I read that book and thought of sharing my views with you all about this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

This book is written by Paul Coelho. "The Alchemist" is his best selling book.He has used the powers of his fascinating story telling to write this masterpiece.

ABOUT THE STORY

The story involves around a boy named "Santiago" who is a shepherd having dreams of travelling the world.The story does not have many characters because of which the reader finds it easy to go with the flow of the story without remembering the names of many characters and being confused.

SUMMARY:

The main character , Santiago loves to travel the world and for this purpose he becomes a shepherd so that he could fulfill his wish. He dreams that he had found a treasure,he ignores it but the dream becomes recurrent and he receives clear signs from the circumstances that he should do something to achieve his treasure. He meets a King who helps him in explaining what his dream exactly means. Then, the boy starts his journey to the pyramids in Egypt (as this place was told to him by the king). He begins his journey along with his flock of sheep but he gets robbed and is left alone.

There he finds a crystal merchant and starts to work with him.Meanwhile he learns language of the world and the language of omens. When he saves enough money, he continues his journey and he comes across a desert, but he could not continue his journey because of the tribal war in the desert, he takes refuge in an oasis where he falls in love with a girl named "Fatima".The boy thinks that he has found his treasure and does not want to proceed the journey but she pushes him to achieve his goal saying that she will wait for him till he returns.

So, he proceeds his journey with a very well known alchemist and gets to learn different life lessons from him Mainly, he gets to learn the language of the world, how silent but loud are the signs of the nature. He begins to understand what the world tries to convey him.

Finally, he reaches his destination where he gets beaten up for believing his dreams and then his knowledge of the world tells him that his real treasure was somewhere he lived while being a shepherd.Then, he returns to that place and manages to find his treasure.He believed in his destiny and finally got it.

HONEST REVIEW

Being honest, the story and the plot was quite common and predictable. But , the thing which made me fall in love with this masterpiece was the dose of deep words he has chosen to indulge the reader into thinking deeper and deeper.It blew my mind how he has explained the meaning of little things and made me realize that these areas of our lives are mostly neglected by us but they are enough to talk to the heart silently conveying its message. Coelho's use of the words to teach add to the meaning of life. His words have truly life-enhancing impacts on millions of people.

I definitely want to suggest this book to you all, if you want to look at your life in other perspective and take a meaning out of it.Some lines from this book that I loved the most are:

People are capable, at any time in their lives of doing what they dream of

People learn what is their reason for being

There is only one way to learn, it is through action

Your eyes show the strength of your soul .

These and a lot more were my favourites.

Hope you liked my effort:)

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