1 What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant? \"Ineed you to help me find out where the alchemist lives.\"First, they tried to find him on their own. 19362 likes. He still had a long way to go toreach the pyramids, and someday this morning would just be a memory. I learned that many alchemistsrealized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, thePhilosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life.\"But, above all, I learned that these things are all so simple that they couldbe written on the surface of an emerald.\"The Englishman was disappointed. \"Well, I'm the king ofSalem!\"People say strange things, the boy thought. He must be disguised to avoid encounters withthieves.\"Take these,\" said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stonethat had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. Sothere were times when he read them parts of his books that had made animpression on him, or when he would tell them of the loneliness or thehappiness of a shepherd in the fields. It seems old and wise.The wind never stopped, and the boy remembered the day he had sat at thefort in Tarifa with this same wind blowing in his face. He looked around at the empty plaza again,feeling less desperate than before. Sometimes, there's just no way tohold back the river. One night, acamel driver came to the fire where the Englishman and the boy weresitting. But that disaster taught me to understand the wordof Allah: people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achievingwhat they need and want.\"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or ourpossessions and property. I don't know how to turn them into reality. And he knew that shepherds, likeseamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there wassomeone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction ofthe sun. Themerchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demandedthat the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not becheated. It turned out to be a bitter tea. He had never even wept in frontof his own sheep. Or marry the daughter of a textilemerchant?\"\"Yes, or even search for treasure. In this version of the story, the goddess of the forest encounters the lake in which Narcissus drowned. An illustration of an open book. The only thing he had noticed was that talk ofwar was becoming more and more frequent. The priests carried them in a golden breastplate.\"The boy was suddenly happy to be there at the warehouse.\"Maybe this is an omen,\" said the Englishman, half aloud.\"Who told you about omens?\" The boy's interest was increasing by themoment.\"Everything in life is an omen,\" said the Englishman, now closing the journalhe was reading. Itmade me very depressed. That's good, thought the Englishman. He remembered the smile of the candy seller,on his first day in Tangier, when he had nothing to eat and nowhere to gothat smile had also been like the old king's smile.It's almost as if he had been here and left his mark, he thought. Sometimes he would comment tothem on the things he had seen in the villages they passed.But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: thegirl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach inabout four days. He said that he had always dreamed of being a shepherd, andthat it was a good omen.\"\"That's the way it always is,\" said the old man. This wasn't a strange place; it was anew one.After all, what he had always wanted was just that: to know new places. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone.\"It's not easy to find the Philosopher's Stone,\" said the Englishman. And joining this caravan may havebeen my decision, but where it goes is going to be a mystery to me.Nearby was the Englishman, reading a book. \"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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 42 / 94windstorms, and told stories about the desert.At other times, mysterious, hooded men would appear; they were Bedouinswho did surveillance along the caravan route. He prepared himself a sandwich and drank somehot tea from a crystal glass. That he wanted to travel. The sale of his sheep had left him with enough money in hispouch, and the boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever hasmoney is never really alone. "Sooo much more helpful than SparkNotes. Melchizedek, the king ofSalem, sat on the wall of the fort that afternoon, and felt the levanterblowing in his face. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 34 / 94and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.Tangier was no longer a strange city, and he felt that, just as he hadconquered this place, he could conquer the world.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieveit,\" the old king had said.But the old king hadn't said anything about being robbed, or about endlessdeserts, or about people who know what their dreams are but don't want torealize them. Andthen I'll have to change my way of life.\"\"Well, isn't that good?\"\"I'm already used to the way things are. There are thousands of kilometers ofdesert between here and there.\"There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was And both you and I needed to cleanse ourminds of negative thoughts.\"When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, \"I'd like youto work in my shop. He went on tellingstories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fearand surprise. When youare unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. But use them to buy your flock. I can pay you to serve as myguide.\"\"Do you have any idea how to get there?\" the newcomer asked.The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentivelyto their conversation. Perhaps to a baker, or to another shepherd who could read andcould tell her exciting storiesafter all, he probably wasn't the only one. 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. Now it was too late tochange anythingthe only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. All the joy he had seen thatmorning had suddenly disappeared.\"I can give you the money you need to get back to your country, my son,\"said the crystal merchant.The boy said nothing. Then when he spoke about me he would say that Iam Melchizedek, the king of Salem.He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, \"I know it's thevanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord. And then they want theperson to change. The thief wasn't there, and theowner brought him a cup of tea.I can always go back to being a shepherd, the boy thought. *The boy began again to read his book, but he was no longer able toconcentrate. It wouldn't be the first time.\"And the woman told the boy to leave, saying she had already wasted toomuch time with him.So the boy was disappointed; he decided that he would never again believein dreams. But that's the way life is with sheep and 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. And the leader posted armed sentinels at the fringes of the group.The Englishman was unable to sleep one night. But now I'm sad andalone. I don't know how animals know the age of humanbeings.\"\"Tell me more about your dream,\" said the woman. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes! He had assumed he would soon return to hissheep.\"Why did you want to get to the Pyramids?\" he asked, to get away from thebusiness of the display.\"Because I've always heard about them,\" the boy answered, saying nothingabout his dream. But as he held Urim and Thummim in his hand, theyhad transmitted to him the strength and will of the old king. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. Summary Read one-minute Sparklet summaries, the detailed section-by-section Summary & Analysis, or the Full Book Summary of The Alchemist . Thenthe two went off to have some more tea.\"I'm leaving today,\" said the boy. *\"I need to sell some wool,\" the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until theafternoon. He took Urim and Thummim fromhis pocket, and began playing with them.The stranger shouted, \"Urim and Thummim!\"In a flash the boy put them back in his pocket.\"They're not for sale,\" he said.\"They're not worth much,\" the Englishman answered. It's going to test thecaravan's every step to see if it's in time, and, if it is, we will make it to theoasis.\"\"If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, butwithout understanding that language, this journey would have been muchmore difficult.\"They stood there looking at the moon.\"That's the magic of omens,\" said the boy. But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a differentcountry, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn't even speak thelanguage. So he held out thebook to the manfor two reasons: first, that he, himself, wasn't sure how topronounce the title; and second, that if the old man didn't know how toread, he would probably feel ashamed and decide of his own accord tochange benches.\"Hmm\" said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it weresome strange object. When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, whilethey were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the otherSpanish.And they had understood each other perfectly well.There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening withpeople. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happyman. The miner hadabandoned everything to go mining for emeralds. Then she tookboth of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray.It sounded like a Gypsy prayer. He owned a jacket, a book thathe could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. I wanted them to be a part of yourinheritance. He quickly pulled his hands away.\"I didn't come here to have you read my palm,\" he said, already regrettinghaving come. = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. Theboy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersionof the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all peopleare connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all writtenthere.\"Maktub,\" the boy said, remembering the crystal merchant.The desert was all sand in some stretches, and rocky in others. The boy felt jealous of the freedom of thewind, and saw that he could have the same freedom. Some of them were things that he hadalready experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had neverperceived before. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 17 / 94The old man opened his cape, and the boy was struck by what he saw. His hands began to tremble, and thewoman sensed it. He knew that in thecaravan there was a man to whom he was to teach some of his secrets. The boy wasstrong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. If he makes a buying mistake, it doesn't affect him much. They trust me, and they've forgotten how to rely on theirown instincts, because I lead them to nourishment. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 48 / 94way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of lifecannot be captured in pictures or words.Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind upforgetting the Language of the World. The boy was becoming more and more convincedthat alchemy could be learned in one's daily life.\"Also,\" said the Englishman, \"the Philosopher's Stone has a fascinatingproperty. 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