That was the law ofhospitality. Reviewers were puzzled, or damned it with faint praise. In his pouch, he had his jacket—he certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. By the time he had hadenough of the sea, he would already have known other cities, other women,and other chances to be happy. I havenever heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they, Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 8 / 94exist. In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. He had learned some important things, like how todeal in crystal, and about the language without words… and about omens.One afternoon he had seen a man at the top of the hill, complaining that itwas impossible to find a decent place to get something to drink after such aclimb. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he asks a Romani f ortune-teller in a nearby town about its meaning. The boy had never even noticed that there was a hole in his pouch.He knelt down to find Urim and Thummim and put them back in the pouch.But as he saw them lying there on the ground, another phrase came to hismind.\"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them,\" the old king had said.An omen. The oldman was probably a Gypsy, too.But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked upa stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. As he was leaving, he saw, in the corner of the room, his oldshepherd's pouch. The most important is to believe only in the one true God. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. Download The Alchemist pdf File size: 0.5 MB What's this? \"The caravan and the desert speak the same language, and it's forthat reason that the desert allows the crossing. \"My friend bought all the other sheepimmediately. Today, I understand something I didn't see before:every blessing ignored becomes a curse. All they think about is food and water.Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused. \"They're only made ofrock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth. He could see that the old man wanted to knowmore about his life.\"Well, then, we've got a problem. *And now it was only four days before he would be back in that same village.He was excited, and at the same time uneasy: maybe the girl had alreadyforgotten him. I'm interested only inthe present. So he held out thebook to the man—for 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. In his dream, a young boy tells him if he travels to the Egyptian pyramids, he will find a hidden treasure. He called to the boy, andthey took a walk along the dunes surrounding the encampment. is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. In one he had read that, many years ago, afamous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are Santiago, Alchemist. I can learn something from the desert, too. 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. 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. Things fall apart / by Chinua Achebe. It turned out to be a bitter tea. \"I can interpret it, butthe interpretation is very difficult. \"But bakers are moreimportant people than shepherds. There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. But the boy never took his eye off hisnew friend. As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choosebetween thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as anadventurer in quest of his treasure.\"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure,\" he said to himself. 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. Thatmorning he had done some calculating: if he continued to work every dayas he had been, he would need a whole year to be able to buy some sheep.\"I'd like to build a display case for the crystal,\" the boy said to themerchant. Anyway, the boy had becomehappy in his work, and thought all the time about the day when he woulddisembark at Tarifa as a winner.\"You must always know what it is that you want,\" the old king had said. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. \"That first day, everyone slept from exhaustion, including the Englishman.The boy was assigned a place far from his friend, in a tent with five otheryoung men of about his age. Page Number options. 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. But he was ableto understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning ofthings. There are some books that go beyond being special. \"Because you really like to travel.\"\"He knew what I was thinking,\" the boy said to himself. He also tried to remembersome good stories to relate as he sheared the sheep. He decided to stay right there and await his return.As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began hischant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads tothe ground, and took up the chant. All his life and all his studieswere aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. He was about the same age and height as the boy.\"Almost everyone here speaks Spanish. In lessthan a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to dobusiness with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strangelanguage. It was the time of day when all of Spain slept duringthe summer. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. READ. He realized thathe could do the same thing the old man had done—sense whether a personwas near to or far from his destiny. It's always a positive force.\". \"We make a lot of detours, butwe're always heading for the same destination.\"\"And you ought to read more about the world,\" answered the Englishman.\"Books are like caravans in that respect.\"The immense collection of people and animals began to travel faster. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 40 / 94But, in the desert, there was only the sound of the eternal wind, and of thehoofbeats of the animals. An alchemist would probably live ina manner that was different from that of the rest of the people at the oasis,and it was likely that in his tent an oven was continuously burning. \"This candy merchant isn't makingcandy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. 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. But now I'm sad andalone. The boythought back to that conversation with his father, and felt happy; he hadalready seen many castles and met many women (but none the equal of theone who awaited him several days hence). The boy was also saddened; his friend was in pursuit of hisdestiny. It seemed as ifwhat the old king had called \"beginner's luck\" were no longer functioning. What he had to beconcerned about was his treasure, and how he was going to go aboutgetting it. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. 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. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are Santiago, Alchemist. He owned a jacket, a book that he could trade … The third said that it was a tradition in the Orient to use crystalglasses for tea because it had magical powers.Before long, the news spread, and a great many people began to climb thehill to see the shop that was doing something new in a trade that was soold. Identify the qualities the character, and analyze the effect of these qualities 10.12. He had learned that there werecertain things one shouldn't ask about, so as not to flee from one's owndestiny. I don't know how animals know the age of humanbeings.\"\"Tell me more about your dream,\" said the woman. A small sliver of the stone can transform large quantities of metalinto gold.\"Having heard that, the boy became even more interested in alchemy. \"I promised that I would make my own decisions,\" he said tohimself.But the stones had told him that the old man was still with him, and thatmade him feel more confident. *At the highest point in Tarifa there is an old fort, built by the Moors. I don't want to changeanything, because I don't know how to deal with change. Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral.But he had to move on. Neither the woman nor the old man were at allimpressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other peopleshould lead their lives, but none about his or her own.He decided to wait until the sun had sunk a bit lower in the sky beforefollowing his flock back through the fields. The Soul of the World is nourished bypeople's happiness. Butthis was the present moment—the party the camel driver had mentioned—and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams ofthe future. Also, it is so famous that is must be available in every bookshop. Theysearched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than theycould have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.\"We've wasted almost the entire day,\" said the Englishman, sitting downwith the boy near one of the wells.\"Maybe we'd better ask someone,\" the boy suggested.The Englishman didn't want to tell others about his reasons for being at theoasis, and couldn't make up his mind. Thedays had always been silent, but now, even the nights—when the travelerswere accustomed to talking around the fires—had also become quiet. 1 0 obj After two hours, he returned to theroom where the wise man was.\" 'Well,' asked the wise man, 'did you see the Persian tapestries that arehanging in my dining hall? Combining magic, … The boy felt sorry for the Englishman's camel, loaded down as hewas with the cases of books.\"There's no such thing as coincidence,\" said the Englishman, picking up theconversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse. Tweet. Addeddate 2010-07-21 23:11:31 Identifier TheAlchemist_410 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2g74449d Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ppi 300 He felt uneasy at the man's presence. *\"I'm the leader of the caravan,\" said a dark-eyed, bearded man. He picked up the two stones and putthem back in his pouch. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist Read Online with Free Download Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author who wrote The Alchemist that was first published in 1988. He went on tellingstories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fearand surprise. Igbo (African people) Fiction. 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. There was nothing tohold him back except himself. It had brought with it the sweat and the dreamsof men who had once left to search for the unknown, and for gold andadventure—and for the Pyramids. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Neighbors movedaway, and there remained only a few small shops on the hill. There, in front of him, where the small starshad been the night before, was an endless row of date palms, stretchingacross the entire desert.\"We've done it!\" said the Englishman, who had also awakened early.But the boy was quiet. Now it was too late tochange anything—the only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. But hewanted to know what the \"mysterious force\" was; the merchant's daughterwould be impressed when he told her about that!\"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how torealize your destiny. Creatures like the sheep, that are used totraveling, know about moving on.\"He thought of the merchant's daughter, and was sure that she had probablymarried. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool.\"It doesn't matter,\" he said to his sheep. \"They wanted me to be apriest, but I decided to become a shepherd.\"\"Much better,\" said the old man. He didn't know the man yet, but his practiced eyewould recognize him when he appeared. \"I have to get back tomy cooking, and, since you don't have much money, I can't give you a lotof time.\"\"The child went on playing with my sheep for quite a while,\" continued theboy, a bit upset. What he needed to do wasreview all he had learned over the years, because the alchemist wouldcertainly put him to the test.The young Arab took out a book and began to read. 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. In the spring of 1996, my second book, a novel, came out in Canada. He almostbegan to tell about his treasure, but decided not to do so. The story revolves around a young shepherd’s trip to Egypt after having a dream of finding the treasure there. But the stones were proof thathe had met with a king—a king who knew of the boy's past.\"They're called Urim and Thummim, and they can help you to read theomens.\" The boy put the stones back in the pouch and decided to do anexperiment. \"It describes people's inability to choose theirown destinies. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me,but that I was learning from them.\"Maktub,\" the merchant said, finally.\"What does that mean?\"\"You would have to have been born an Arab to understand,\" he answered.\"But in your language it would be something like 'It is written.' 40 1.23K 1 Summary A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. The boy could certainly resist causingthat kind of anxiety for the baker. But he knew that Salem wasn't in Andalusia. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. %���� Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. He was tense and upset, because he knew that the old manwas right. Only in that way would he be able to read the omens. Back to Full BooksFull Books Nigeria-Race relations-Fiction. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. Once again he was experiencing thelanguage without words… the universal language.The Englishman asked if they were in danger.\"Once you get into the desert, there's no going back,\" said the camel driver.\"And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way ofmoving forward. Although his new worldat the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it whenit was teeming with life, and he would never forget it. The scabbard was embossed in silver, and thehandle was black and encrusted with precious stones. He thought for a moment that it would be better to pay herfee and leave without learning a thing, that he was giving too muchimportance to his recurrent dream.\"You came so that you could learn about your dreams,\" said the old woman.\"And dreams are the language of God. It was said that he was morethan two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher'sStone and the Elixir of Life. Then, taking his sheep, hewalked away. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his … When he's anold man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. From there, he could see Africa inthe distance. It didn't fare well. 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. But he decided to take a chance. When you want something with all your heart, that'swhen you are closest to the Soul of the World. But she said nothing.\"Then, at the Egyptian pyramids,\"—he said the last three words slowly, sothat the old woman would understand—\"the child said to me, If you comehere, you will find a hidden treasure.' 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. Sometimes it's better to be withthe sheep, who don't say anything. The Alchemist is a modern fable by Paulo Coelho. That's good, thought the Englishman. On the very first page itdescribed a burial ceremony. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’ copyright laws to be certain they can legally download this … This book was mainly published in 1988 in the Portuguese language. Therewere three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerablecolored tents spread among them.\"It looks like The Thousand and One Nights,\" said the Englishman, impatientto meet with the alchemist.They were surrounded by children, curious to look at the animals andpeople that were arriving. I understand sheep;they're no longer a problem, and they can be good friends. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 14 / 94\"Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by thesame currents,\" said the old man. Heknew how to speak Esperanto, he understood all the major religions well,but he wasn't yet an alchemist. \"But I want one-tenthof the treasure, if you find it.\"The boy laughed—out of happiness. And he hadn't perceived them because he had becomeaccustomed to them. I am in search of that universal language, amongother things. Hecouldn't have been wrong.\"I had never heard of alchemists before,\" the boy said. TThhee OOuuttssiiddeerrss S. E. Hinton According to Wikipedia, The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. \"They are so used tome that they know my schedule,\" he muttered. The boy felt jealous of the freedom of thewind, and saw that he could have the same freedom. Then she tookboth of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray.It sounded like a Gypsy prayer. 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. That he had attended aseminary until he was sixteen. Theowner of the bar came over and looked, as well. He had to choose between something he hadbecome accustomed to and something he wanted to have. I can't help you if you feel you've gotenough sheep.\"The boy was getting irritated. In return, I needmoney to get to Egypt tomorrow.\"The merchant laughed. The selection of devices a writer uses depends on the nature of the story or a writer’s personal preferences. But he hadfound a guide, and didn't want to miss out on an opportunity.\"You have to cross the entire Sahara desert,\" said the young man. 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. It's the simple things in lifethat are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.And since I am not wise, I have had to learn other arts, such as the readingof palms.\"\"Well, how am I going to get to Egypt?\"\"I only interpret dreams. Free download or read online The Alchemist pdf (ePUB) book. He transformed himselfinto a stone that rolled up to the miner's foot. Stage 3: Learning Plan ± The Alchemist Activity Title Priority Standards Page Lesson #1: ³0DJLFDO 5HDOLVP´± ³9HU\2OG 0DQ´ 10.12. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. If I have to fight, it will be just asgood a day to die as any other.\"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. He had been to the village only once, the year before. Peoplewere shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and thechildren of the oasis were bursting with excitement at the arrival of thestrangers. If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he wouldpresent one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn't have to worry, Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 9 / 94about memorizing a lot of names.When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he likedthe book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed thefeeling of being cold. Andalusian shepherd kind a work, too skinny, but he needed to get the. 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