Atnight, as they sat around the fire, the boy related to the driver hisadventures as a shepherd.During one of these conversations, the driver told of his own life.\"I used to live near El Cairum,\" he said. 1 of 25. That'swhy I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.\"\"And what if I never get to Egypt?\"\"Then I don't get paid. Don't try to enterinto the life of the oasis,\" he said, and walked away.But the Englishman was exultant. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. They came in silence and departed the sameway, dressed in black garments that showed only their eyes. As he was leaving, he saw, in the corner of the room, his oldshepherd's pouch. On the otherhand, I don't know if the desert can be a friend, and it's in the desert that Ihave to search for my treasure. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. They have blond hair, or dark skin, butbasically they're the same as the people who live right here.\"\"But I'd like to see the castles in the towns where they live,\" the boyexplained.\"Those people, when they see our land, say that they would like to live hereforever,\" his father continued.\"Well, I'd like to see their land, and see how they live,\" said his son.\"The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can They might even havebecome friends, but the Englishman closed off the conversation.The boy closed his book. 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 horizon was tinged with red, and suddenly the sun appeared. The years of research, the magicsymbols, the strange words and the laboratory equipment none of thishad made an impression on the boy. 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. The boy knew what he was about to describe,though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chainthat had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurringdream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to berobbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, andThe closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomeshis true reason for being, thought the boy.The caravan moved toward the east. He had to choose between something he hadbecome accustomed to and something he wanted to have. There, he couldexchange his book for a thicker one, fill his wine bottle, shave, and have ahaircut; he had to prepare himself for his meeting with the girl, and he didn'twant to think about the possibility that some other shepherd, with a largerflock of sheep, had arrived there before him and asked for her hand. 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. He had remembered that one of thecrystal merchant's suppliers transported his crystal by means of caravansthat crossed the desert. Maybe it was his treasure tohave wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled thesize of his flock without spending a cent.He was proud of himself. He had discovered that thepresence of a certain bird meant that a snake was nearby, and that acertain shrub was a sign that there was water in the area. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 27 / 94asleep. Neither the woman nor the old man were at allimpressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. 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. \"Everyone has his or her own way of learning things,\"he said to himself. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. It turned out to be a bitter tea. Everything you need for every book you read. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. I've already imagined the people who would be He had been to the village only once, the year before. pdf INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, 2012 Brahim EL FEZZAZI Paulo Coelho Full PDF Package This Paper A short summary of this paper 1 Full PDF related to this paper Download Download Full PDF Package Translate PDF It traveled during the morning, haltedwhen the sun was at its strongest, and resumed late in the afternoon. The boy thanked him, ate it, and went onhis way. The silence of thedesert was a distant dream; the travelers in the caravan were talkingincessantly, laughing and shouting, as if they had emerged from thespiritual world and found themselves once again in the world of people.They were relieved and happy.They had been taking careful precautions in the desert, but the camel driverexplained to the boy that oases were always considered to be neutralterritories, because the majority of the inhabitants were women andchildren. Then leave with the caravan. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 19 / 94again after having charged him his one-tenth fee. \"They're only made ofrock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth. They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, theygenerously gave of their wool, their company, andonce in a whiletheirmeat.If I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, theywould become aware only after most of the flock had been slaughtered,thought the boy. I could die happily, and that made me feel good.\"One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its banks. When he speaks in our language, Ican interpret what he has said. He'sdoing it because it's what he wants to do,\" thought the boy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 8 / 94exist. 12 by Ben Jonson. One always had something thatthe other neededas if everything were indeed written by one hand. 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. "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.". An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. pdf | Brahim EL FEZZAZI - Academia.edu Download Free PDF The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Parents would rather see their children marry bakersthan shepherds.\"The boy felt a pang in his heart, thinking about the merchant's daughter.There was surely a baker in her town.The old man continued, \"In the long run, what people think about shepherdsand bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.\"The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he cameto. The sheep, the merchant's daughter, and thefields of Andalusia were only steps along the way to his destiny.The next day, the boy met the old man at noon. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. Just by looking at them. Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral.But he had to move on. \"And suddenly, the child took me by both hands andtransported me to the Egyptian pyramids.\"He paused for a moment to see if the woman knew what the Egyptianpyramids were. \"He doesn't have enough money to travel.\"While standing at the ticket window, the boy had remembered his flock, and \"And, as he smothered the coals in the hookah, he told the boy that he could He wept because God was unfair, and because this wasthe way God repaid those who believed in their dreams.When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy.People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. Maybe that'swhy they always stay close to me.The only things that concerned the sheep were food and water. \"They come in search of new things, but when they leave theyare basically the same people they were when they arrived. Because life wantsyou to achieve your destiny,\" the old king had said.But the merchant understood what the boy had said. The sheep fidgeted nearby, uneasy with their newowner and excited by so much change. \"I had my orchard, my children, anda life that would change not at all until I died. The Englishman said nothing.And the murmur lasted longer than a simple vow would have. Thatwind had brought the Moors, yes, but it had also brought the smell of thedesert and of veiled women. 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. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. You just have to read the omensthat he left for you.\"Before the boy could reply, a butterfly appeared and fluttered between himand the old man. I don't want to changeanything, because I don't know how to deal with change. Hewas a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live hislife in accordance with Muslim law.\"What's the fifth obligation?\" the boy asked.\"Two days ago, you said that I had never dreamed of travel,\" the merchantanswered. The peoplewere also praying to heaven for protection.A long note was sounded on a bugle, and everyone mounted up. \"Thealchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purifiedthe metals. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 41 / 94But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detoursand adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compasspoint. *The boy went to his room and packed his belongings. Two customers came in today while you were working,and that's a good omen.\"People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd. In return, I needmoney to get to Egypt tomorrow.\"The merchant laughed. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 43 / 94He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the faceof the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animalor even justa simple thought.\"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth isalive and it has a soul. That's the world'sgreatest lie.\"\"That's never happened to me,\" the boy said. An old man, with a breastplate of gold, wouldn'thave lied just to acquire six sheep.The old man had spoken about signs and omens, and, as the boy wascrossing the strait, he had thought about omens. It was \"yes.\"\"Am I going to find my treasure?\" he asked.He stuck his hand into the pouch, and felt around for one of the stones. 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. \"They are so used tome that they know my schedule,\" he muttered. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. But as he held Urim and Thummim in his hand, theyhad transmitted to him the strength and will of the old king. 2 of 25. Then he sat in the sun-filled doorway, smokingthe hookah.He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of thewind that brought the scent of the desert. \"I dreamed that I was in a fieldwith my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2019-08-17 17:11:21 Identifier thealchemist_201908 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6b35q07j Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) \"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. He thought that the horizon was a bitlower than it had been, because he seemed to see stars on the desert itself.\"It's the oasis,\" said the camel driver.\"Well, why don't we go there right now?\" the boy asked.\"Because we have to sleep.\" * \"I know other girls in other places.\"But in his heart he knew that it did matter. As the time passed, the boy found himself wishing that theday would never end, that her father would stay busy and keep him waitingfor three days. There was nothing tohold him back except himself. Theywent in to drink the tea, which was served in beautiful crystal glasses.\"My wife never thought of this,\" said one, and he bought some crystalhewas entertaining guests that night, and the guests would be impressed bythe beauty of the glassware. But instead of being saddened, he was happy. I thoughtthat someday I'd be rich, and could go to Mecca. (PDF) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. As they satdown at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed.\"You didn't have to do any cleaning,\" he said. In the crowd were women,children, and a number of men with swords at their belts and rifles slung ontheir shoulders. 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. The people will enjoy the tea andwant to buy the glasses. *The men climbed the hill, and they were tired when they reached the top.But there they saw a crystal shop that offered refreshing mint tea. 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