How does Hemingway describe Santiago?
3. How does Hemingway describe Santiago’s eyes? They are full of pain. They are blank with defeat.
What’s the point behind the conversation about yellow rice?
What’s the point behind the conversation about yellow rice with fish and the cast net? Everyday Manolin asks if he can take the cast net in. Santiago replies with yes yet there is no cast net since they have sold it.
Why do you think Santiago talks to himself?
Why does Santiago talk to himself in the boat? He is used to having the boy’s company. he is alone for the majority of the time, but the boy loves him and keeps him company. He considers the sea as a friend.
What is Santiago’s plan?
What does Santiago plan to do in Tarifa? Exchange his book for a thicker one to sleep on and read, fill his wine bottle, and get a haircut. Santiago stops in Tarifa to consult with an old woman about his recurring dream.
What does the old man want in payment for helping Santiago?
What does the old man ask in payment for helping Santiago? He asked for one-tenth of his sheep.
What did Santiago’s dad want him to be?
Santiago’s parents want him to become a priest, so he attends the seminary until he is sixteen years old. While in the seminary, Santiago learns to read. While it is a great honor and accomplishment for a boy from a poor family to become a priest, Santiago soon realizes he is unhappy at the seminary.
What are Santiago’s weaknesses?
In Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, there seem to be very few things that hold the character back from achieving his goals. In terms of personal “flaws,” he trusts too easily and he experiences self-doubt after he is robbed. When Santiago decides to sell his sheep, he is too quick to trust someone that he does not know.
Does Santiago become an alchemist?
Finally, Santiago, in something like his notion of alchemy, transforms himself literally into the wind. This physical transformation adds a new dimension to the ideas of alchemy and the Personal Legend that we have seen to this point in the novel.
Does Santiago marry Fatima?
The alchemist explains that Santiago would have enough money to buy many sheep and camels, and that he would marry Fatima. The alchemist’s story convinces Santiago. The pair returns to Al-Fayoum for one night and Santiago tells Fatima he is leaving, but that he still loves her and he will return.
What’s Santiago’s personal legend?
A Personal Legend, as it’s referred to in The Alchemist, is one’s destiny in life. It’s identifying your purpose in life and pursuing it. When Santiago meets the old King of Salem, Melchizedek, he teaches him what a Personal Legend is. He says that a Personal Legend is “what you have always wanted to accomplish”.
Who approaches Santiago as he digs in the sand?
who approaches Santiago as he digs in the sand, and what did they do? men who escaped the tribal wars, they found the gold the alchemist had given him, they beat him as he dug further.
Why does Santiago cry when he gets to Africa?
A man of similar age and appearance as Santiago addresses him in Spanish. Santiago tells him he needs to get to the Pyramids and offers to pay him to serve as a guide. Santiago waits at the marketplace until nightfall for the young man to return and begins to cry when he realizes he’s been robbed.
What things does Santiago learn from his heart?
His heart is afraid of losing his loved ones and of Santiago not finding his treasure, because the heart knows that it will suffer if these things happen. Santiago also learns from his heart how to hear the Language of the World, and to communicate with the desert, the wind, and the sun.
What does Santiago ask of his heart and what does he promise in return?
once santiago understands his heart, what agreements does he ask of it, what does he promise it in return? He asks his heart to always tell him when danger is near, and he promised back to trust it and to always listen to his heart.
Why do you think he speaks this word when he and Santiago part ways?
I think the crystal merchant say maktub when he splits ways with santiago because its a way of saying follow your personal legend and do what is best for you in the future and continue nad to the pyramids and not go to mecca. By saying maktub, the merchant is giving Santiago his blessings.