The Alchemist Written by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist" written by Paulo Coelho

Learning real life lessons and finding your place on Earth through your actions

and thoughts is believed to be one of the most important things in life. For example, in

the book "The Alchemist" written by Paulo Coelho the excerpt "whoever you are, or

whatever it is you do, when you really want something, it's because the desire originated

in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on Earth." The main point of the quote is

too allow the reader to think about ones life and apply his/hers thoughts, feelings and

actions to the characters in the book. The issue which must be focused on, which has

been presented in the book, is of finding ones inner self, and finding ones place on Earth

and the reasons why the individual has been put on this planet.

This book isn't only a piece of writing, literature or a bunch of letters on a piece

of paper. This book teaches an individual about life and helps an individual learn about

life by teaching valuable lessons. Many people believe that they lose control over their

lives and themselves. In the "Alchemist", the boy asked the old man what is the world's

greatest lie, the old man answered; "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lost

control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the

world's greatest lie."(Author 20). This is important because many people in today's

society believe that at some point in their lives they hit a brick wall and are not able to

move forwards with their lives so they decide to let fate take over. That's where they

mistake is made, the only reason some individuals believe that they lose control is

because their will power isn't as strong as needed or that they don't believe in themselves

enough to see that they are capable of doing anything that they put their minds to. Even

though fate sets up part of the life that each person is going to live, it cannot control lives

completely. For example, when ones life is bad and he/she decides to give up, that's a

mistake they're making. It's a mistake because even though fate exists, human beings are

a part of fate. Fate doesn't control people, people control people or oneself. Fate - itself -

doesn't have that big of an impact on people's lives - because it's unknown. While others

who one interacts on daily basis do have a major impact on the lives of