The setting of the book was in between the year of 1926 and 1938. The main plot of the alchemist takes place in the Spanish pastures, the Spanish town of Tarifa, the city of Tangier in North Africa, and the Sahara desert. Paulo Coelho writes the novel around Santiago who is the protagonist in the book. Santiago is a shepherd in Spain and realized he must go to the pyramids of Egypt and find his treasure.
The novel starts of with Santiago and his herd being at a abandoned church. It was very dark and cold that day in Spain. The story moves on and Santiago wants to follow his personal legend.
Paulo Coelho wrote the book in past tense so he can go back and forth throughout the book for a better understanding. The point of view is third person omniscient. The author knows everything but moves character to character allowing events to be interpreted by several different voices. In my section Santiago the main protagonist falls in love with an Arab girl named Fatima. They both love and care for each other.
In my section Santiago and the Alchemist both go to the pyramids of Egypt to get Santiago's treasure. They are both walking through the Sahara Desert which his hot and tiring. This was Santiago's personal legend to find the treasure. But when he met Fatima all he wanted was to be with her. But Fatima told him to go follow his personal legend. There was a lot of love between Santiago and Fatima in my section.
In the novel there was a lot of omens and dreams. And this led to a lot of foreshadowing.
No comments:
Post a Comment