To become the wind, what must Santiago understand?

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The Alchemist Part 2

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Paragraphs i-88

• Santiago works for the crystal merchant for most a month. It's non exactly his dream job, merely he's making enough money to salve upward for his sheep.
• He suggests edifice an outdoor display case to concenter more customers, simply the crystal merchant isn't buying it—and so Santiago changes his tactics and argues that they should take advantage of his beginner's luck and then he can achieve his Personal Fable. The merchant digs the cosmic talk and asks Santiago why he wants to get to the Pyramids.
• Santiago doesn't want to tell the merchant about the treasure, specially since he'southward decided to give up on information technology.
• A couple days afterward the merchant tells Santiago that his life dream is to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in accordance with Muslim law.
• Except … he never goes to Mecca, because he always wants something to look forward to. The merchant says that he and Santiago are different because Santiago actually wants to realize his dreams.
• Okay, okay, fine. The merchant gives in: Santiago can build the display.
• Surprise! The plan works.
• Okay, we totally saw that coming. Simply in whatsoever case, the plan works and they sell glass similar hotcakes.
• Then Santiago gets the bright idea to sell tea out of the glasses. Eek! But then the merchant would have to modify his way of life!
• Turns out that meeting Santiago has forced the merchant to look at his life. He doesn't like it too much: he realizes that he isn't reaching his possibilities and that he doesn't even desire to.
• The two smoke together, and finally the merchant says, "Maktub," which ways something like "it is written" in Arabic. Translation: bring on the tea shop!
• Now Santiago and the merchant are selling both tea and glass similar hotcakes, and the merchant has to expand and hire more employees.
• Almost a twelvemonth after arriving in Africa, Santiago has saved enough to become dorsum to Spain and buy double the sheep he'd had the twelvemonth before.
• He tells the merchant that he'southward leaving and gets his blessing. But the merchant says that fifty-fifty though he has enough money to become to Mecca he won't get, and he knows that Santiago won't purchase his sheep.
• As Santiago packs upward his stuff, Urim and Thummim fall out of his pouch. He realizes he hasn't thought about the old king in a year, and leaves without saying goodbye because he doesn't want to weep.
• All of a sudden Santiago realizes that he tin e'er get back to being a shepherd, but he has to continue chasing after his dream and learning new things.
• He decides to get run into how much it would cost to get to the pyramids.

Paragraphs 89-215

• An Englishman who is also following omens is sitting in the warehouse waiting for the caravan to exit Tangier, reading some books on alchemy.
• He is planning to go to the Al-Fayoum oasis and come across a 200-year-old alchemist there who tin can turn any metal into gold.
• The Englishman's dream is to larn abracadabra, so he can't look to run across the old guy at the oasis.
• Santiago shows upwardly and asks the Englishman where he'southward going, simply the Englishman isn't feeling too talkative, and then they both just sit and read.
• Unfortunately, Santiago still can't get past the first few pages of Dr. Zhivago. You and us both, Santiago.
• He takes Urim and Thummim from his pocket, and the Englishman immediately recognizes them. He shows Santiago that he has two identical stones, and explains that in the Bible they were the only permitted form of divination, or telling the time to come.
• Well, that's convenient.
• The Englishman tells Santiago that he'due south off to notice the alchemist, and they get to chatting nigh the universal language and omens. Just and so an Arab tells them they're in luck: a caravan is leaving that 24-hour interval for Al-Fayoum, Arab republic of egypt—where both of them are headed.
• Santiago lets slip that he'south hunting treasure, but the Englishman has got his ain treasure to look out for.
• The caravan leader gives everybody a pep talk before they take off, explaining how dangerous the desert is and how they have to swear to follow his orders no matter what, in order to stay alive. Fair enough.
• Everyone climbs on their camels and….they're off.
• Santiago learns a lot from watching the desert and thinking about the way the caravan moves. Naturally, he makes friends with a camel driver, and they hang out at night telling stories.
• Sometimes Bedouin messengers come to tell the caravan the desert gossip, including rumors of tribal wars.
• Santiago tells the Englishman he should pay more attending to the desert, and the Englishman tells him he should read more books.
• Gee, sounds similar they both have a lot to acquire from each other.
• While they're out walking one night, the Englishman tells Santiago about the Soul of the Globe, a force that governs everything. He says that when you want something with all your heart, you lot're shut to the Soul of the Earth and the universe volition assistance you go it.
• So … if nosotros desire to be able to eat Oreo foam pie every nighttime without gaining weight, will the Soul of the World have care of that, besides? Sweet.
• The ii decide to swap, with the Englishman paying attending to the caravan and Santiago reading his books.
• Hm, this sounds strangely familiar. Maybe like an old human being's story almost a boy trying to acquit oil in a spoon effectually a metropolis? Yeah. Kind of like that.
• Santiago reads about a mysterious Emerald Tablet, which has the almost important text in the literature of abracadabra inscribed on it, simply a few lines. He as well learns about the lives of the famous alchemists, who defended their lives to purifying metals and purifying themselves.
• He also learns nigh the Elixir of Life, which is the liquid part of the work of irresolute metal to gold, and the Philosopher'due south Stone, which is the solid part. They're both pretty special, and hard to find.
• Unfortunately, Santiago doesn't sympathise any of the manuals that would tell him how to do alchemy.
• The Englishman explains that the texts take to be difficult to understand then that only the most responsible people could read it and modify things into gold. (Because only responsible people are able to read complicated texts, duh. That's why professors are so notoriously attentive.)
• Eventually, both friends get sick of the others' learning materials and get back to their old means.
• The caravan starts to travel 24-hour interval and night considering of the wars, and everyone seems to be pretty nervous. Santiago's camel driver friend tells him to live in the moment instead of fearing the future. Helpful.
• They finally camp out within sight of the oasis, and everyone is pretty thrilled about this.

Paragraphs 216-464

• The alchemist—who BTW is 200 years sometime—sees the caravan arriving and knows that one of the people in information technology has been sent in that location to acquire his secrets.
• He heard this from the omens. Convenient, those omens.
• The oasis is gigantic, bigger than most of the towns that Santiago has seen. The people who live there are excited to see the newcomers, and Santiago learns that oases are considered neutral territory where fighting is prohibited.
• The caravan leader explains that the group will stay at the haven until the fighting stops, which could be years. He also collects everyone'south weapons, because they're prohibited in the haven.
• Santiago tries not to be impatient, and moves into a tent with five roommates from the oasis.
• The Englishman enlists Santiago to help him find the alchemist, which is not so easy considering that the oasis contains hundreds of tents.
• When Santiago asks about him, people get all twitchy and say they've never heard of anyone similar that. Finally, they determine to enquire for a wise homo who cures illnesses, considering probably no one knows what an alchemist is.
• Hm. No luck. People either charge them of looking for witch doctors or tell them it's none of their business.
• And then, Santiago sees a young woman and promptly falls in love with her. He finds out that her proper name is Fatima and then asks her near the alchemist. She tells him that he lives in the south, and then leaves.
• The Englishman takes off to hunt the alchemist. When he finds him, he explains that he's there to learn. The alchemist tells him to go and try to turn pb into gold, then he gets to work.
• Santiago starts hanging out at the well, waiting for Fatima, and they talk every twenty-four hours. She says that she has always waited for the desert to bring her a present, and that it finally has. (It'southward Santiago.)
• He tells her nearly his dreams, the sometime king, and the omens.
• Fatima wants Santiago to go wait for his treasure, even if he has to leave her. She knows that if they're destined to be together, he'll exist back for her. She'southward a desert adult female, and then she knows all about waiting.
• Santiago finds the Englishman, who tells him that he'south finally learning about alchemy by doing it instead of simply reading virtually it. Alive yo' dreams, Englishman.
• Out walking in the desert, Santiago sees a couple of hawks flying in the heaven. He watches them in a trance, and all of a sudden 1 of them attacks the other. Just so, Santiago has a vision of an army invading the oasis.
• This being an allegorical novel, Santiago knows he'd better listen to his visions. He heads back to the oasis to tell the camel driver about the vision, and his buddy encourages him to go tell the tribal chieftains about the armies that are coming.
• Won't they laugh at him? Nah. The camel commuter says that men of the desert are used to omens. Because he'south worried most Fatima, Santiago decides to tell what he saw.
• At the chiefs' tent, Santiago waits his plow for an audition with the leaders. Hours later, he presents his vision. The chiefs argue and contend in a dialect Santiago doesn't sympathise, but finally the elder ends the discussion.
• The elderberry says that they take to heed to the letters of the desert, and that the next day anybody will be armed and on the sentry.
• For every ten dead enemies, they'll give Santiago a piece of gilt. However, if there is no assault, Santiago volition be the one who ends up dead. Gulp.
• On his way back to his tent afterward, a stranger shows upwardly on a white horse, with a falcon on his shoulder and a sword in his hand. He asks who dares to interpret the flight of the hawks, and Santiago answers that it's him. Why? It'south what the birds wanted to tell him. Thenthe stranger asks him what he's doing in that location, and Santiago says he's following his Personal Legend.
• The stranger says that he was testing Santiago's courage, because that'southward the most important quality for understanding the Language of the World. If he's all the same alive tomorrow night, Santiago should visit him.
• Whoa!, Santiago realizes. That was the alchemist.
• The adjacent day the oasis is ready for the attack, and information technology's a adept matter. The battle is over in a half 60 minutes, and every invader is killed. Santiago is promoted to counselor of the oasis.
• He walks south toward the alchemist's tent, and sits downwardly to wait for his new friend.
• The alchemist rides up with two dead hawks and they consume them. Succulent. The alchemist has some communication: sleep well, sell his camel, and buy a horse. They're off to discover the treasure!
• The side by side night Santiago comes to the alchemist'southward tent with his horse, and they ride out into the desert. The alchemist tells him to show him life in the desert.
• Santiago is nervous, because he doesn't know much most the desert nevertheless. He lets the equus caballus gallop until it finally stops, and the alchemist gets downwardly and finds a hole in the ground. He sticks his arm into it all the way upwardly to his shoulder, then pulls a poisonous cobra out.
• The alchemist draws a circle in the sand and places the snake in information technology, who stays there. He says that Santiago's finding life in the desert was the omen he needed. He'll guide him to the pyramids.
• Now Santiago says he wants to stay at the oasis because of Fatima, but the alchemist insists that she'll expect for him. If he stays in the oasis he'll lose everything, including his dream.
• The alchemist frees the snake by erasing the circumvolve in the sand, and they head back to the oasis, planning to go out earlier sunrise.
• That night, Santiago says good day to Fatima, promising to come dorsum.

Paragraphs 465-683

• The alchemist and Santiago ride off into the desert. After a week the alchemist congratulates Santiago for coming so close to the terminate of his journey. He shows Santiago what is written on the Emerald Tablet, merely Santiago can't empathise it.
• They proceed riding, and the alchemist tells Santiago to listen to his centre. This is super difficult, because his middle seems to change its mind a lot. (Nosotros hear y'all.)
• They go along passing armed tribesmen, and Santiago'southward heart starts to feel fearfulness. The alchemist tells him that fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself, so his heart quiets down. He listens to it all the fourth dimension. The alchemist tells him that his heart is returning to the Soul of theWorld. Kooky, correct?
• Fourth dimension for the terminal lesson: earlier a dream is realized the Soul of the World throws out all its hardest tests, in a "darkest earlier the dawn" fashion.
• The side by side day some tribesmen evidence up and search the alchemist and Santiago's belongings. They sees the Philosopher's Stone, which turns whatever metal into aureate, and the Elixir of Life, which cures whatever sickness, merely remember the alchemist is joking when he tells them what they are and allow them go on. Whew.
• They travel on, with Santiago listening to his heart tell him of all the times information technology saved him from danger without him even realizing it.
• The pair passes some other campsite. Some tribesmen stop them, telling them they tin can't become whatsoever farther because of the state of war. The alchemist uses his eagle-eye stare on them and they permit them pass.
• When they are just two days away from the pyramids, Santiago asks the alchemist to teach him about transforming lead into golden. The alchemist tells him that it's about evolution, and that gold is the most evolved metal. The alchemist must evolve along with the metal, or it won't piece of work.
• Suddenly Santiago gets a danger signal from his centre, and sure enough they're surrounded by a hundred tribesmen who capture them and take them to a camp.
• They are accused of being spies, and the alchemist says that he is only Santiago's guide. He says that Santiago is an alchemist who understands the forces of nature and wants to show off his powers.
• Thanks a lot, alchemist.
• Then the alchemist gives all of Santiago'southward gold coins to the principal, too. Double thanks, alchemist.
• The alchemist goes on to promise that Santiago tin destroy the campsite with the force of the current of air, and that he needs three days in order to transform himself into the wind. He also handily offers upwardly Santiago's life every bit a penalty if he isn't able to do the play tricks.
• Santiago is, of grade, terrified, until the alchemist pours some tea on his wrists and says some magic words to calm him downwards. He says that he knows everything he needs to transform into the air current; the but matter in his way is the fearfulness of failure.
• Later on the first day Santiago still has no idea how to achieve his goal, and on the 2nd mean solar day he goes upward on the acme of a cliff to look at the desert. On the tertiary day the chief and officers go with the alchemist to look at the male child who volition turn himself into current of air.
• Santiago asks everyone to sit down and look, and so he starts chatting with the desert. He tries to explain to the desert what love is, and says he needs the desert to plow him into current of air so that he can become back to his honey, Fatima.
• Turns out the desert is no assistance—only information technology does put him in bear on with the wind. Ooookay.
• A breeze starts bravado, and Santiago asks the current of air for help. The wind is curious, but doesn't know how to turn him into the current of air. He tells him to ask heaven. Santiago asks him to blot out the sun with a sandstorm so that he tin expect to heaven without being blinded.
• The wind obliges, blowing a terrifying storm into the army camp. A couple of the commanders ask the chief to stop the experiment, but he won't do and then.
• Next up, Santiago chats with the sun, who says that he knows well-nigh the Soul of the Earth. The lord's day starts shining really bright and Santiago explains to the lord's day about alchemy and evolution. It's all pretty mystical and wacky.
• He asks the sunday to help him to turn into the wind, but the sun doesn't know how. He tells him to ask the paw that wrote all, and he does so, without speaking. It'south not actually clear exactly how this is working, but nosotros become the idea that Santiago's on the right track.
• Santiago prays, reaching through to the Soul of the Earth. He realizes that his soul is the Soul of God and that he can do miracles. One time the storm dies the campsite has nigh been destroyed, and Santiago has been transported far to the other side of where it used to exist.
• Anybody is naturally terrified, and they allow the alchemist and Santiago go, hooking them up with some armed guards to help them on their way.

Paragraphs 684-758

• Afterward riding for a mean solar day, the duo comes upon a Coptic monastery and lets the armed guards keep domicile.
• The alchemist tells Santiago that he'due south on his own, and simply three hours from the pyramids.
• Santiago thanks the alchemist for education him the Language of the World. NBD, says the alchemist. He already knew it.
• A monk comes to the gate and lets them use the kitchen for a bit.
• The alchemist starts cooking upwardly some gilt using atomic number 82, and gossips about the war with the monk.
• After the gold is cooked, the alchemist splits information technology into four parts. One for the monk, i for Santiago, one for himself, and the fourth one for the monk to keep rubber for Santiago in instance he ever needs it.
• They get back on their horses and the alchemist tells Santiago a story about a Roman who had 2 sons, a poet and a war machine officeholder.
• The father dreams that i of his sons' words would be repeated throughout the globe for generations to come. He dies, and when he gets to heaven is granted a wish. He wishes to come across his poet son'southward words repeated in the futurity.
• Information technology turns out, though, that it's not the poet whose words are immortalized; information technology's the armed services officer. He was one of the outset followers ofJesus Christ, and spoke ane of the verses of the Bible, "My Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. But but speak a word and my servant will be healed." Moral: anybody plays a part in the history of the globe.
• With that, the two part ways.
• Santiago rides to the pyramids, and his heart tells him that wherever he is brought to tears is the identify where his treasure is.
• He climbs a dune and sees the pyramids. He falls to his knees and cries, praying and thanking God for leading him on this journeying.
• He starts earthworks into the dune, simply doesn't observe anything. He finds some rocks, and some people come to him, asking him what he'southward doing.
• They're refugees from tribal wars and need money, and discover his gilded in the purse. They call up that he must have more gold hidden in the footing, and brand him dig all night, even though he doesn't detect anything. They shell him up and he explains, finally, that he's digging for treasure.
• The leader says that he must have stolen the gilt and decides to leave. Before he goes though, he tells Santiago non to exist so stupid, that he himself had dreamed of a treasure right on that spot. His dream told him to become to a ruined church in Espana and to dig at the roots of a sycamore tree. He says he's non as stupid as Santiago, crossing the desert merely because of a dream.
• Santiago laughs as they leave, because the guy just gave him the inkling to where his treasure is.

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