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THE DESCRIPTION OF SANTIAGO’S DREAM IN “THE
ALCHEMIST” NOVEL BY PAULO COELHO
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BY BAMBANG JULIUS MANURUNG REG. NO. 122202076
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Jesus
Christ for His Blessings so that i can be healthy, strong, and gives me ease to
accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate
from English Department Faculty of Culture Science, University of Sumatera
Utara.
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guidance to me and also your advice. I will always love you my brothers. • Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, MA as the head of English Diploma Study
Programe, who gives me a lot of knowledge and worth experience.
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You are all my power. I love you guys.
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
Literature is the result of a creative work of the human mind and use of
language as media. And literature can be found in books, videos, television,
radio, CDs, computer, newspaper and all the media of communication where a
story is told or an image is created.
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:1) say, “Literature refers to compositions that
tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate
ideas.” Before the invention of writing, literary works were necessarily spoken
or sung, and were retained only as literature still exists, with many poems and
stories designed exclusively for spoken delivery. Even in our modern era of
writing and printing, much literature is still heard aloud rather than read
silently.
In literature, it explains about story. Story is also the part of literature.
Story also explains about many things. One of them is about dream.
Dream is anaspiration. Dream is something to be achieved, gained or
earned. Dream instead of a delusion or an illusions. Dream is not something
that is impossible to be achieved in the future if we have plans or efforts to
make it possible. The writer has ever read news from internet, the news is
about the dream of a boy finally achieved. When the boy was in Elementary
School, his teacher had ever asked them about what their biggest dream was.
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magician who would be famous. All of his friends in his class laughed at him
included his teacher, because they had thought that his answer was such a joke
and it was impossible to achieve his dream. After getting tired of practice and
learned about magic, finally the boy can be famous now as a super magician
not only in his country but also in International. He could prove to his friends
who had ever insulted him in Elementary School , He could chase his dream
and made it possible. He had made his dream comes true.
Dream is also found in The Alchemist novel where a shepherd named
Santiago had a dream to get the treasure in a Pyramid, He had ever dreamed it
twice. He had left his hometown and travelled to many places. He had got
many obstacles in every place that he had visited to get to the Pyramid.
Fortunately, the boy could solve it all and he met some people who help him
to find the treasure. Finally, after passing a long journey and many obstacles ,
he could arrive at Pyramid and achieved his dream to find the treasure. His
treasures were Spanish gold coins, precious stones, gold masks adorned with
red and white feathers, and stone statues embended with jewels. The spoils of
a conquest that the country had been forgotten long ago, and that some
conquistador had failed to tell his children about.
The Writer chooses “Dream” because Santiago’s dream was unique and
mysterious. He was whispered by a child in his dream and told him that he
would find the treasure in Pyramid and he wanted to chase his treasure in
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and met with some wise and motivating people during his way to Pyramid. He
wanted to find the treasure because he wanted to change his life.
1.1Problem of Study
Problems of Study can be defined as follows:
1) What is Santiago’s Dream ?
2) What did Santiago do for the dream?
1.2Scope of Study
Scope of Study in this paper is limited to analyse the elements of the
novel such as
plot, character, setting, which show how Santiago chased his dream to find the
treasure.
1.3Method of Study
In writing this paper, the writer uses library research as the method of
study. The writer reads the novel to understand the story and the writer reads
reference books and browses data from the internet. The data are taken from
novel text, reference books, and internet in quotations form. Finally the data
are collected, sorted, summarized and described in this paper.
1.4Purpose of Study
Purpose of Study are to describe Santiago’s Dream and his efforts to chase
4 1.6 Reason for Choosing the topic
The writer has choosen Paulo Coelho’s Novel “The Alchemist”: The Story
of Santiago as an object of this paper. The writer got lessons and motivation
which were learned from the story of Santiago in chasing his dream to find the
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Novel
Novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and
events in the form of a sequential story. Novel is kind of the literature,
according to Rees (1973:106) says that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of
considerable length in which characters and actions that are representated in
real life are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity. One of inspiration
in writing a novel is based on true story with human experience, usually
through from relation of sequence events involving a group of person in a
specific setting. On the other side that novel teaches the readers by the moral
message in a theme of the novel.
Peck and Coyle (1984:102) say that the novel reflects a movement away
from an essentially of religious view of life towards a new interest in the
complexities of everyday experience. Most novel are concerned with ordinary
people and their problems in the societies in which they find themselves.
George Watson (1979:3) says “Novel is the name of a literary kind, and
there is a story to tell about how, over the centuries, its substance has widened
and its conventions changed.” So it means novel is literary work, narrate about
the life in centuries ago. Of course, novel is a way to send the message in
Society, such as in novel the characters that play role hero and felon are found.
Hero in novel will be success but felon will be loser. From this message the
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Watson (1979:4) says, “A novel is a way of learning about how things
were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who distruct stories as evidence
should consider how often in conversation we use them to make a point or
answer questions.” It means that novel has many functions to inform or make
a point or in some subjects of distruct stories.
Novel is usually written in the past tense because the author tells story that
happens in the past, the author imagine the story firstly then interpret it in
writing so the imagination first then writing in the past tense.
2.2 Character
Character is a very important element in literary works such as novel,
drama or even poems. The character can be human, or even animal. In a novel,
the character is usually dominated by human as the character, while the
character in a novel has his/her own personality equal to human. The
personality of the character will lead the character to act such emotional,
behavioral, and all the logical things that deals with the problems which be
faced by the character. Therefore, the character of the novel mostly has a value
of a human in a real life.
Shaw (1972:50) says, “Character is the aggregate if traits and gestures that
from the natures of some person or animal.” Character also refers to moral
qualities and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character has
several other specific meanings notably that a person represented in a story,
novel, play,etc. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century in England, a
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vice as represented in a person, what is now more often called a character
sketch.”
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:131) say, “In fiction, a character may be defined
as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech,
description, and commentary, authors portray characters who are worth caring
about , rooting for, and even loving, although there are also characters you
may laugh at, dislike, or even hate.
Taylor (1981:62) says, “character is a mere construction of words meant to
express an idea or a view of experience and must be considered in relation to
other features of the composition, such as action and setting, before its full
significance can be appreciated.
Based on four quotations that the character is a form of a characteristic or trait
of human or animal, character also refers to the quality of the moral and
ethical standards and principles. In literature, the character has some special
meanings primarily that of other people who are represented in the novel. And
also a character sketch of a formal descriptive analysis of certain virtues,
character has two types of flat characters and round characters.
2.3 Plot
Gwynn (2002:7) says that plot may be defined as the sequence of incidents
in a story, arranged in dramatic order. One is tempted to insert the word
“Chronological” but doing so will exclude many stories that depart from this
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usesforeshadowing to prevents a story’s outcome from seeming haphazard or
contrived.
Kennedy (1991:7) says that plot is the artistic arrangement of those events.
It means that the most important element among other elements of fiction
because a structure events arising out of conflict. Plot is the logical interaction
of the various thematic elements of a tech which lead to a change of the
original situation as presented at the outset of the narrative. One of the most
important elements in shaping a work of fiction is plot.
Shaw (1972:211) says that plot is a plan or scheme to accomplish a
purpose. In literature, plot refers to arrangement of events to achieve an
intended effect. A plot is a series of carefully devised and interrelated actions
that progresses through a struggle of opposing forces (conflict) to a climax and
a denouement. A plot is different from story line (the order or events as they
occur).
In a well-done story, all the actions and incidents, speeches, thoughts, and
observations are linked together to make up an entirety, sometimes they may
be called an organic unity. The essence of this unity is the development and
resolution of a conflict,orconflics-in which the protagonist meets and resolves
the conflict is called the plot, which has been compared to the map of
story,scheme, or blueprint. The plot is based on interactions of causes and
effects as they develop sequentially or chronologically. That is, the actions in
the story follow one another in time as the protagonist meets and tries to
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Shaw (1972:247) says that a setting is the environment or the
surroundings of anything. The term is usually applied in literature to the locale
or period in which the action of a play, novel, motion picture,etc. Takes place
in theatrical jargon, setting may also refer to scenery or properties.
Taylor (1981:69) says “setting is a major factor in formulation of subject
matter and a direct influence on the expression of theme. As in the case of the
other factors,however, setting needs to be realistic, nor, in fact, even physical.
Historical time (past,present or future) is very effective for certain narratives
and an accurate geographical location advisable, but it is also possible to set a
fiction in some vague undetermined time, omitting historical references
altogether in order to achieve a sense of timelessness and universality.”
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:230) say, “Setting is the natural, manufactured,
political, cultural, including everything that characters know and own.”
Based on the three quotations, setting means the time, place, and social
reality in which a story takes place or the environment of the story.. It also
means that setting is everything that the characters who are in the story know
and own.
2.5 Intrinsic Approach
Wallek and Waren (1973:75) say that the approach is based on the
intrinsic structural of point of text and literature. This means that the intrinsic
approach emphasizes the inter text analysis by describing the elements of
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art of music is very diverse and complicated. Sometimes they influence one to
each other. Theory of art and taste can be studied and related to the teory and
literary tastes of artist. Besides the issue of sources and influences, inspiration
and coorperation, there is another problem, namely literary works often
produce the same result with the result of a painting and musical.
According to Wallek and Warren, intrinsic approach is the emphasis on
the analysis of the text. Intrinsic approach starts from the literature. In the 19th
century popular literature examines the origin. Many methods are based onthe
survey of modern literary forms, namely in the French method of explanation
of the text there. Many novels see the connection with the work of social
structure, study of artistic methods, and tecniques of narrative point of view.
2.6 Descriptive Research
Best (1982:76) says that Descriptive research is purposed to describe
what is happening now, and is attemptedto make descriptions, printing,
analysis, and interpretation of the conditions that occur at this time. In the
descriptive study a comparison of various types is included and it may
welcome to attempt to find the relationship between the set of variables.
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Santiago was a 19 years old young man. He was a shepherd from
Andalusia, a city in Spain. He had good characteristics and personalities such
as enthusiastic, brave, spirit, persistence, and also patient. Santiago’s life was
very simple and he lived with his father. He came from a family of farmers.
His father wanted him to be a priest when he had been 16, so his father asked
him to go to the seminary. However, Santiago made a different decision with
his father. Santiago decided to get out from the seminary and never realized
what he had done. He did not feel sad of his decision because it could hurt his
father. He decided to get out from the seminary and wanted to be a shepherd.
He told his father that he would like to be a shepherd than a priest. Because
it’s more interesting for him to learn about the world not about the sins of
human and knowing God. He wanted to be like that because he always wanted
to be a shepherd since he had been a child. Knowing that, his father felt sad.
He tried to pursuade his son to change his decision, but his effort failed.
Santiago still wanted to be a shepherd. Because his father loved his son so
much, he allowed him to be a shepherd. He gave a pouch that contains three
gold coins of ancient Spain to his son. He gave his son so thathe could buy
sheeps to be herd when he traveled and bought some food during he traveled
with his herd. After that, Santiago spends much times with his sheep when he
traveled as a shepherd.
One day, he arrived with his sheep in a broke church. He slept near the
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from hunter. When he was sleeping, he dreamed about the same dream like
what he had ever dreamed before. He dreamed about a child who whispered to
him when he was in field with his sheep that he would find the treasure if he
went to the Pyramid, in Egypt
“ I have had the same dream twice,” he said. “I dreamed that I was
in a field with my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play
with the animals. I didn’t like people to do that, because the sheep
were afraid of strangers. But children always seem to be able to
play with them without frightening them... And the child went on
playing with my sheep for quite a while, And suddenly, the child
took me by both hands and transported me to the Egyptian
pyramids.
” The child said to me, “ If you come here, you will find a hidden
treasure.’ And, just as she was about to show me the exact location, i
woke up. Both times.” (Coelho, 2012:13-14)
He was very interested and happy because he thought that his dream
was real.And he could find his hidden treasure in pyramids,Egypt. He wanted
to be a rich and successful man, so he really wanted to chase his dream and
found the treasure. He also thought that if he could be a rich man he could get
a woman to be his wife later. But suddenly, he thought that his dream was
such an ilussion and it’s impossible. He was confused about that. He was
confused how to get the treasure if it was true, because he did not know the
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his sleep. But sometimes, he thought different because his feeling said that
there is a treasure on the Pyramids and he wanted to find it.
Finally, he decided to chase his dream to find the hidden treasure in
Pyramids,Egypt. He went to Tarifa and there he met a woman, who was famous
because she could interpret someone’s dream. The woman was a Gypsy or fortune
tellerthat could interpret the meaning of dreams. Santiago told her about his dream
and hoped she could show him the exact location of Pyramid. Before he told his
dream, the woman asked him to promise that he would gave her one-tenth of the
treasure if she interpreted his dream. Santiago agreed with that deal. And the
woman interpreted his dream and told him what his meaning meant. She said that
Santiago should go to the Pyramid in Egypt and finding the treasure because it
was trully happened. Because in his dream there was a child whispered to him that
he would find the treasure, and a child is a symbol of God. The woman said that
he must chased his dream and went to Pyramid soon because his dream would be
come true and he would be a rich man.
“And this is my interpretation: you must go to the pyramids in
Egypt. I have never heard of them,but,if it was a child who
showed them to you they exist. There you will find a traesure that
will make you a rich man.” (Coelho, 2012:14)
Santiago was annoyed with the woman interpretation. Because he wanted
her to tell him where was the exact location of Pyramid. She just interpreted
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wasted his time to meet her becasue she would not be able to tell him where the
exact location was.
“I only interpret dreams. I don’t know how to turn them into
reality. That’s why I have to live off what my daughters provide
me with.” (Coelho, 2012:14)
Santiago thought that he had been fooled by the woman. He thought that
she could inform him how to get to the Pyramid by interpreted his dream with the
woman. However, the woman asked him to give her one-tenth of the treasure if he
had found it. He thought it was not fair .
“I’m not going to charge you anything now,” she said. “But I
want one-tenth of the treasure if you find it.”(Coelho, 2012: 13)
Santiago was dissapointed and got out from there. He was confused
because the woman whom he expected could give him a better decision , but
really she could not . He was also confused whether he would go to find the
Pyramid or came back to his hometown and met his father. But, He decided to
continue finding the treasure.
Then, He continued to find the treasure. As usual, his sheep always
accompanied him. He herd his sheep. After that, he stopped a few moments and
sit on a bench at a plaza around Tarifa. There he read some books that he had
brought inside his bag. While he was reading, an old man came to him. At first,
Santiago was afraid and disturbed with that man and thought that the old man was
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felt incoherent talked with the old man, but he remembered that his father had
ever told him that he must respect to the people who was older than him.
The old man began the conversation and asked Santiago to lend his books
which he read to him. When He held that book, he said that the book was
important but irritate because the book told about fate and destiny. Then,
Santiago felt confident to be near him. They started the coversation well. They
discused the book together.
The old man taught him many lessons of motivation about destiny. The
old man asked him that he must tried hard to chase his destiny because when he
wanted to chase the destiny, all universe would conspire to help him. And he also
taught about life.
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in
helping you to achieve... Whoever you are, or whatever it is that
you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire
originated in the soul of universe.... People learn, early in their
lives, what is their reason for being, Maybe that’s why they give
up on it so early,too. But that’s the way it is.” (Coelho, 2012:
21,23)
Santiago surprised because the old man knew everything about him. He
knew about the name of Santiago’s family one by one. And he also knew what
Santiago was looking for. Then, Santiago told about his dream and asked him
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knew about the treasure that Santiago was looking for. He wanted one-tenth of his
sheep to be the exchange if he helped him to find the treasure. Santiago did not
want to understand about the old man offer, but he had to be dealing with that
becasue he wanted that the old man could really help him .
“ Give me one-tenth of your sheep,” said the old man, “ and i’ll
tell you how to find the treasure.” (Coelho. 2012:19)
Santiago dealed with the old man’s offer and would bring his sheep . In
the next day, he came back to the bench where he did the dealing with the old
man. Finally the old man came too. Santiago gave six sheep to the old man and
asked the old man to help him to find the treasure. The old man helped him to find
the treasure by telling Santiago that he should follow the Omens from God.
“ In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens.
God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to
read the omens that he left for you.”(Coelho, 2012: 28)
Santiago had felt that the old man was like the woman whom he had met
before because he did not show the exact location of Pyramid. Suddenly, the old
man opened his cape, and he was struck by what he had seen. The old man wore a
breastplate of heavy gold, covered with precious stones. The old man was really a
king. A king from Salem and his name was Melchizedek.
The old man gave him two stones. They were black and white stones.
They were called Urim and Thummim. Urim was to signify “Yes” and
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were unable to read the omens. But the old man said that it will be better if he
could make his own decisions.
“ Take these,... They are called Urim and Thummim. The black
signifies ‘yes’ and the white ‘no’. When you are unable to read the
omens, they will help you to do so... But, if you can, try to make
your own decisions.” (Coelho, 2012:28)
Santiago took that stones and the old man said that whenever he wanted
help he would be there with him. He would be there in many form. He would help
everyone who want to realize their destiny and at the point where they’re about to
give it all up.
“ ...,but i always appear in one form or another. Sometimes I
appear in the form of sollution, or a good idea. At other times, at
a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen. There are
other things I do,too, but most of them people don’t realize I’ve
done them.” (Coelho, 2012:22)
Santiago felt confident and enthutiastic to chase his dream to find the
hidden treasure because the old man gave him new visions to find the treasure
with the two stones that would help him. The old man leaved him before he could
know what his name was , but he said that his name was Melchizedek.
Santiago was full of spirit, enthusiasm, courage, and persistence to find the
treasure. He had had got so many instructions from many things. From the woman
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had given him some instructions for his journey. Because of the instructions, he
finally decided to make effort and long journey to find the treasure.
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Santiago left his town Andalusia, Spain. He also had left Tarifa to get the
instructions to reach his dream that was to find the treasure. But his journey
started with across narrow streets of Tangier. He went there by himself without
his sheep. He lost his sheep when he exchanged them to The King whom he met
in Tarifa. And after he arrived in Tangier, he wanted to take a rest before he went
to another places to find the treasure. He entered in a bar in Tangier. There he saw
many men were smoking from a gigantic pipe that they passed from one to the
other. Santiago did not care for them. Santiago sit at one seat there, and opened
his pouch to take Umim and Thummim out. He wanted to prove whether the two
stones could give him omens or not. While he was holding the two stones, many
bad men in the bar looked at him in a bad purpose. They wanted to grab it from
Santiago. Because they thought that the two stones was rarely found and it would
be expensive to sell. Santiago already finished enjoying his drink and food and get
ready to get out from there. A young man visited him while he was preparing his
bag. The young man could speak spanish and Santiago felt happy with that.
During his way to get the treasure, he never met someone who could speak
Spanish. The young man intended to help him to go to the Pyramid. Santiago felt
glad with him. When they almost reached the door, some men were trying to cheat
them by saying that they wanted to buy the two stones. Santiago did not care for
them too. But, the men were angry and wanted to hit Santiago and grabbed the
stones rudely. Fortunately, he was helped by a young man. The young man
pushed the men far and held Santiago’s hand to get out from the bar. Santiago
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first, he did not believe with everyone easily because he was always fooled by
many people, since he met the woman and the King.
The young man said to him that they could get to the Pyramid by
tomorrow. But he also said that they could get there if only they had two camels.
Santiago trusted his friend easily because he really wanted to find the treasure. He
gave all of his money to his friend and let him to buy the camels. They walked
across the narrow street of Tangier. And they reached at the center of a large plaza
there. Then, he saw many people arguing,selling, and others. His friend asked him
to wait there because he wanted to buy the camels . Santiago did not care for that,
he was amazed by a beautiful sword that he had never seen before. He saw the
stall of the sword properly and also waited his friend to come. Unfortunately, his
new friend still did not come in a long time. He dissapeared and took all of
Santiago’s money away. Santiago was very sad because someone whom he trust
so much could do that for him. He had trusted his new friend but he must be
cheated by his friend too. He felt desperate and blame God because God was not
fair to him. God did not help him when he got many obstacles and when he was
fooled by some people. He also hated with people who found their treasure
because he would never find his treasure.
“ ... but now I’m sad and alone. I’m going to become
bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me.
I’m going to hate those who have found their treasure because I
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because I’m too insignificant to conquer the world.” (Coelho,
2012:37)
Then he opened his pouch, he found his heavy book that he used to sleep
as pillow when he was at abandoned church. He also found his jacket and two
stones .He felt glad when he looked at the stones. He felt that the stones could
help him when he was sad by giving omens. He also felt glad because the two
stones could help him in making decisions and gave clues while he was getting
lost and almost gave it all up during the journey to find the treasure. He decided
that he would continue to find the treasure because the omen told him he had to
continue to find his treasure.
Then, he arrived at the highest point in Tarifa. There, he saw at one
crystal shop and saw the owner of the shop was cleaning his crystals. He wanted
to work there in order to get much money to continue his journey and buy sheep.
Because he lost all of his money after he was betrayed by his new friend whom he
had trusted so much. He came to the shop and met the owner of the crystal shop.
He said that he would like to work to buy some food because he was very hungry.
He began to clean the windows. After half an hour all the windows had been
cleaned by him. While he was cleaning the window and the crystals, the two
visitors came to the store and bought some crystals. The costumers felt amazed
because they never saw the crystals that were so clean. The owner felt glad with
that moment. He usually was visited by one or two costumers in a day but they
did not buy any crystals. But since the coming of Santiago, everything had been
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Santiago had cleaned all the window and crystals, the owner asked him to have
lunch with him. They went to a small shop not far from there. While he was
eating, the shop owner said that he did not need to clean the window for getting
food. Because he believed in the teaching of the Quran which requires him to give
food for people who need food or hungry people.
“ You didn’t have to do any cleaning,” he said. “ The Koran
requires me to feed a hungry person.” (Coelho, 2012:44)
Surprisingly, the owner asked Santiago to work as a waiter in his shop. He
thought that was a good omen because when Santiago worked there, there were
two costumers who entered the stores to buy crystals. Santiago was happy to
know that, and he said to the shop owner that if he had already had much money,
he would go to Pyramid,Egypt tomorrow.The shop owner laughed because it was
impossible to go to Pyramid although he could work year by year. The distance
from Tangier to Pyramid was very far and it would cost a lot.
He worked every day and as long as he was working, there were so many
costumers visited the crystal shop. Every day,the costumer was full and increased.
Then, Santiago had a plan to make a rack for the crystal which would be placed in
front of the store in order to the visitor could see the crystal from outside the store.
He told his plan to the shop owner and he agreed. The shop was really famous
because of Santiago’s plan.
The shop owner said that the situation did not change very much after two
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because it would boost his advantage and luck is on their sides. But, the shop
owner still did not want to continue made the display. He just want to follow the
Prophet and would be satisfied of what he got .
“The Prophet gave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations
to satisfy during our lives. The most important is to believe only
in the one true God. The others are to pray five times a day, fast
during Ramadan, and be charitable to the poor.” (Coelho,
2012:51)
The shop owner also told Santiago about his dream. His dream was to go
to Mecca like all other Moslem in this world dream. He had collected a lot of
money to go to Mecca. However that was all just dream, he had not be able to go
there. But because the thought of Mecca that kept him alive. That was what had
helped him in facing days by days that were all the same. And he was afraid if his
dream was realized, he would have no reason to go on living.
The shop owner said the presence of Santiago truly brought blessings for
him. Santiago also got a lot of important lessons from the shop owner, such as
how to trade crystal, a language that did not require words and about dream.
Santiago had worked there for almost one year. He had got much money. But
because he had much money, he was confused whether he would continue his
journey to find the treasure in Pyramid or came back to Spain,his hometown, and
would buy many sheeps. He was afraid if there would be another liar who could
cheat him. Suddenly, he remembered the words of Melchizedek who had said that
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finally, he decided to follow the King’s instruction to continue his journey to find
the treasure.
“ The old king had said “When you want something, all the
universe conspires to help you achieve it.” (Coelho, 2012:21)
Santiago left the crystal shop withoutsaying good-bye to the shop owner.
Then, he was confused again because he thought that his dream is less important
and it would be better to become like the shop owner. But, when he hold Urim
and Thummim in his hand, they had transmitted to him the strength and will of the
old king. He also thought that he was unique. His dream was not like dream of
people in general. He also had met a king who had given him the instructions to
follow his dream. It had given him new strength to find the treasure.
Santiago went to a part of warehouse where the caravan would pick the
passengers there. When he had arrived, he met with an English man. The English
man was from Africa. The Caravan finally arrived with a group of Khalifah.
Santiago talked with the English man during the way. The English man was
looking for Alchemist who could change metal to be gold. The Alchemist lived in
Oases Al-Fayoum. Both of them had the same purposes.They believed in Omens
which would help them to find their treasure. The Englishman treasure was The
Alchemist and Santiago treasure was real treasure. In Caravan, the English man
always read the books which were heavy and full of Physics Pattern. Santiago did
not understand about the book. The English man said that all of his life and all of
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travelled to Oases, and he wanted to help the English man to find the Alchemist in
Oases.But before they began to depart , the leader of the caravan said that they
must only listened to him if they wanted to safe becasue during the way to Oases
there would be many obstacles and challenges. Finally, the English man closed
the conversation with Santiago because the Caravan had moved. Santiago talked
with the leader of the Caravan and told him about his dream. The leader of the
Caravan was a good listener, he could understand Santiago’s dream and also he
gave some motivations to Santiago by telling about his life story.
When they arrived in Oases, they saw many palm trees, three hundred
wells and fifty thousand palm trees, and lots of tents scattered among the trees. In
there, they were surrounded by many small kids who were curious inside the
Caravan. The leader of Caravan gave instructions to all of them to remain vigilant
because there would be conflicts between tribes that would be happened in Oases.
After hearing that, The Englishman took a chrome-plate revolver from his purse.
Accroding to him, he believed that the thing could help him when he had had
challenge. But for him, it was an ordeal because in the pursuit of a dream of
course there were trials or challenges to test the courage and bravery. He thought,
God was the only one who would put the signs and signals along the way.
In their journey, when they searched the Alchemist, they asked all the
women there. But none of them knew who the Alchemist was. Suddenly, a
woman came to fetch water at the well. Santiago asked her too whether she knew
where the Alchemist lived. The woman was kind-hearted and wise. Her name was
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however, suddenly there was a stranger explained that God cured a disease, and he
explained some of the Qur’an verses.
“Allah cures our illnesses,” said the man, clearly frightened of the
strangers, “ you are looking for which doctors,” He spoke some
verses from the Koran, and moved on. (Coelho,2012:91)
When Fatima almost finished to fetch water in well, Santiago expressed
his love to her. He had loved her at the first sight. He said that he would like
Fatima to be his wife. Fatima was shy and said that he had loved him too. She
would always waited for him in Oases until Santiago came back from Pyramid
after getting the treasure. She always supported Santiago to chase his dream to
find the treasure. Santiago was someone whom she always waited to fill her life.
“ I’ve been waiting for you here at the Oasis for a long time. I
have forgotten about my past,about my tradition,...that the
dessert would bring me a wonderful present. Now, my present has
arrived, and it’s you.” (Coelho,2012:92)
Fatima was a wise girl and her presence would also be the strength for
Santiago. Santiago had ever thought to stop continuing the journey to find the
treasure, because for him he had found his treasure that was Fatima,his girlfriend.
And Fatima was more important than other treasure. However, Fatima kept
supporting Santiago to find the treasure. She said that she would always be there
waited for him and would always pray for him. Santiago also promised to Fatima
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He continued his journey again. During his journey, he felt that there
would be war between tribes in Oases. He had got that feeling because he saw the
eagles flight, and he interpreted that there was a dangerous sign. He was in rush to
tell the chief of Caravan of what he had seen. The chiefs did not believe in him
because the chief thought Oases was neutral teritory and no one would attack the
Oases. Santiago was sad because no one believed his words. He decided to go on
his way from Oases. When he went out from Oases , he saw astride the animal
was a horseman dressed completely in black, with a falcon perched was on his left
shoulder. He wore turban and his entire face, except for his eyes, was covered
with a black handkerchief. The horseman curved a sword from a cabbard mounted
on his saddle and told Santiago that he had dared to interpret the eagles flight
meaning. His voice was so loud that made Santiago felt afraid, however, Santiago
was still brave to say that he was the one who had interpret the birds. According
to him, all sign came from one hand, that is God.
“it is I who dared to do so,” said Santiago. He was reminded of
the image of Santiago metamoros, mounted on his white horse,
with the infidels beneath his hooves. “Allah created the armies,
and he also created the hawks. Allah taught me language of the
birds, everything has been written by the same hand” the boy
said. (Coelho,2012:106)
The Alchemist taught him so many lessons. The Alchemist also would
help him to find the treasure. They rode along way to get to the Pyramids in which
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heart and learned or understanded what his heart said because it would help him to
find the treasure. While they were riding the horse to Pyramid, they were trapped
by tribesman. They were stopped, but the Alchemist always had tricks to make
them safe and free from the tribesman. After that, they were stopped again by
tribesman. This time the tribesman were from tribal war. The Chief of the tribal
war was wise. The Alchemist could not cheat the chief. But The Alchemist said
that Santiago would transform himself into the wind. Santiago was afraid of that.
He never knew how to change himself to be the wind. It was very impossible to
do. And if Santiago failed to transform himself to be the wind, they would be
killed. But The Alchemist was smart, he had known that Santiago would be able
to transform himself to be the wind. And he said to Santiago that Santiago should
not show his fear because the tribesman were brave and they despited cowards.
The Alchemist always gave him spirit and suggestion, so that Santiago would not
be frustrate and Santiago had to listen to his heart.
“Don’t let them see that you are afraid,” the alchemist said. “
They are brave men, and they despise cowards.”
(Coelho,2012:134)
Next day, Santiago took them to the cliff where he had been on the
previous in doing demonstrate and he told them all to be seated. He began looked
out at the horizon. There were mountains in the distance. And there were dunes,
rocks, and plants that insisted on living where survival seemed impossible. A
breeze began blow, and tribesman watched him from a distance, taking among
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First, Santiago spoke to the Desert, but the desert could not transform
him into wind. The desert suggested to ask for the wind. Next, Santiago asked the
wind to transformed him to be the wind.However, the wind also could not
transform him into the wind. After that, he asked to the Sun whether Sun could
help him, but sun still could not help him to transform him into the wind. Sun
suggested to ask to the one who created these all, that is God. He asked to God
and God helped him to transform himself into the wind because Santiago had the
soul of God. Santiago transformed into the great wind , it blowed everything up
around there. Seeing that, the tribesman were afraid. The Chief finally could see
the greatness of Allah. It disturbed all things near that, and the boy and the
Alchemist could escape from there.
The next day, the Alchemist helped him to go to Pyramid and finding
treasure. Toward the end of the afternoon, they came upon a Coptic Monastery.
The Alchemist told the escorts that he would return to the camp. The Alchmist
knocked on the gate of monastery. A monk dressed in black came to the gate.
They spoke for a few minutes in the Coptic, and the Alchemist pursuaded the boy
to enter the gate. After that, they went to the kitchen at the back of the monastery.
The Alchemist lighted the fire, and the monk brought him some lead, which the
Alchemist took from his pouch the strange yellow egg. He scraped from it a silver
as an hair, wrapped it in a wax. And added it to the pan in which the lead had
melted. When the pan had cool, the monk and Santiago looked at it, dazzled. The
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After that, they returned to the gates of monastery. There, the Alchemist seperated
the disk into four parts. He gave gold to the monk and Santiago.
“This is for you”, he said, holding one of the parts out to the
monk. It is for generosity to the pilgrism. ( Coelho,2012:147)
The Alchemist turned to the Santiago. He gave gold to him for what he
gave to the general. After that, Santiago continued his journey without The
Alchemist. The Alchemist believed that Santiago would find his treasure. He
continued his journey to find his treasure alone for several hours and listening
avidly to what his heart said.
When he arrived at Pyramid, he started to dig hill desert. Along the night,
he still dug and he did not find anything. However, he still dug the hill desert. A
pair of his hand get injured and he got tired but he must listened to his heart. His
heart told that the treasure would be where his tears felt.
“ be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That’s
where I am and there your treasure is.” (Coelho,2012:152)
When Santiago pulled corals that impeded him, suddenly he listened the
sound of foot steps and there were some people appeared to him. Santiago was
afraid because one of them asked about what Santiago was doing. They were
cruel. They pulled him out from hole. One of them checked Santiago’s bag and he
found gold that The Alchemist gave in Santiago’s bag. The thief striked him and
beated him until he was in blood and his cloths ragged. Santiago was very sad and
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God and cried because he was always unable to find the treasure but he always
got fooled and hurted by many people. When he was frustrate, he stood up shakily
and looked once more at the Pyramids. They seemed to laugh at him and his heart
bursting with joy. Now he knew where his treasure was. When he continued
digging the hole, his shovel hit somethinh solid. An hour later, he had before him
a chest of spanish gold coins. There were also precious stones, gold masked
adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues embedded with jewels. The
boy took out Urim and Thummim from his bag and placed them in chest because
they were also a part of his new treasure.
Santiago realized that life was generous to those who pursued their
destiny. After that, he planned to give and proved all of his promise for everyone
who had ever helped him to find this treasure. He would give a tenth of his
treasure to Gypsy woman. And one of the most importantthing was that he would
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
After analyzing the novel, it was clearly showed that Santiago’s dream
was unique and rarely to be found. He was lucky to get the dream like that
because he wanted to be rich and had much money if he could find the treasure.
He was persistence, enthutiasm, spirit but sometimes confused.
He tried his best to chase his dream to find the treasure. He traveled from
one place to other places in order to get to the Pyramids,Egypt in which his
treasure will be. He left his hometown and traveled to find the treasure. First, he
went to Tarifa , there he met with an old woman who could interpret dream . After
that, he met with the old man. The old man was a king from Salem. His name was
Melchizedek. He was happy because the king gave him two stones, Urim &
Thummim. It could help him to find the treasure when Santiago was confused. He
also met with his new friend who he trusted a lot. However, his new friend
betrayed him and took all of his money away. He also worked at a crystal shop in
Tangier. There he also got so many lessons, such as how to sell crystal and lesson
about dream. He also got much money after he worked there for one year.
Because he had already had much money, he continued his journey. When he was
in Caravan, he met with an Englishman who had same ideals with him. The
Englishman also told him many things that he did not know about language of
soul. He met with his woman whom he loved at the first sight. Her name was
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Alchemist helped him to go to the Pyramid, and he also taught Santiago so many
lessons, while they were riding their horses, they were stopped by tribesman . the
chief of tribesman was wise and could not get cheated easily. The Alchemist told
the chief that Santiago could transform himself into wind. Santiago could
transform himself into wind because of God helped. God helped him becasue he
had the soul of God. The Alchemist and Santiago could escape from there and the
alchemist planned to take Santiago to the Monastery. He left Santiago there and
would not accompanied him to go to the Pyramid. Santiago started to find the
treasure only himself in Pyramids. At First, he did not find anything when he dug
the hole. Suddenly, there were two strangers came and grabbed all of his
belongings. He was frustated. But the Pyramids seemed laughed at him and he
knew that he would find the treasure there. He dug the hole once more, and he
found his treasure. His treasure was a chest of spanish gold coins. There were also
precious stones, gold masked adorned with red and white feathers, and stone
statues embedded with jewels. He wanted to proved his promise to the old woman
and he would come back to Oases to marry Fatima.
4.2 Suggestions
The writer hopes this paper can give many advantages and motivation for
all the readers of the novel THE ALCHEMIST. I hope all readers can understand
about the story from this novel. This novel is very good and gives us a learn that if
we want something, we will get it . We must be positive thinking, patient,
intentions and persistence if we want to make our dream comes true. This novel
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reach our dream and hopes. The dream of Santiago can be a good motivation for
us, because although our dream is impossible to achieve but we must believed in
God and believed that we can ahieve it. We can achieve our dream because all the
universe will help us to conspire when we want to achieve our dream.
I hope all the readers will be motivated from this novel because of
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BIOGRAPHY OF PAULO COELHO
Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, the son of an engineer and a housewife. He attended a Jesuit school, and from a young age Coelho dreamed of becoming a writer. According to Coelho, his parents responded to his artistic aspirations and to his introverted personality by committing him to a mental institution and approving electroconvulsive ("shock") therapy for their son.
Coelho enrolled in law school as a young man but dropped out to travel, through Latin America, North Africa, and Europe. He became involved with a theater group as an actor and director and worked as a journalist, founding a magazine called 2001. He also wrote lyrics for rock songs and collaborated on a political comic strip.
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His life's major turning point occurred when Coelho met a stranger in an Amsterdam café who told him to make the traditional Roman Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain. Coelho did so in 1986. As a result, he experienced an epiphany that readers of The Alchemist will recognize: He decided to follow his dream. Coelho set out to become a writer.
Paulo Coelho’s Career
Inspired by his journey to Santiago de Compostela, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage: Diary of Magus, about extraordinary events that happen to ordinary people. Published in 1987, the book's commercial and cultural impact was at first negligible.
The following year The Alchemist was published. The novel sold only nine hundred copies initially and was not reprinted. Coelho's next book, Brida, was well-received, however, and as a result, both The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist
became best-sellers.
Indeed, The Alchemist became the best-selling Brazilian book ever and then an international best-seller — one of the best-selling books in history, ultimately.
Coelho has written and published more than twenty-five books in all, including collections of essays and newspaper columns, though most are novels. Some of his best-known books are By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Fifth Mountain, Veronika Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, Warrior of the Light: A Manual, The Zahir, and Eleven Minutes. The author, now internationally recognized, lives with his wife in Europe and in Rio de Janeiro.
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39 SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
While sleeping near a sycamore tree in the sacristy of an abandoned
church, Santiago, a shepherd boy, had a recurring dream about a child who told
him that he would find a hidden treasure if he traveled to the Egyptian pyramids.
He traveled to Tarifa and met an old woman who could interpret dream.
An old woman told Santiago that this dream was prophetic and that he must
followed its instructions. Santiago felt dissapointed because the woman could not
tell the exact location of his treasure. Next Santiago met a mysterious old man
who seemed able to read his mind. This man introduced himself as Melchizedek,
or the King of Salem. He told Santiago about good and bad omens and said that it
was the shepherd boy's duty to pursue his Destiny after he exchanged his
one-tenth sheep to the King. Melchizedek then gave Santiago two stones, Urim and
Thummim, with which to interpret omens.
Santiago purchased a ticket to Tangier, in northern Africa, to which he
traveled by boat. Shortly after he arrived there, a thief stole all of Santiago's
money, so the shepherd boy decided to look for a way to make enough money to
return home. He found work in the shop of a crystal merchant, where Santiago
made improvements that reap considerable financial rewards.
After eleven months of working in the shop, Santiago was unsure of how
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should he cross the vast Sahara in pursuit of the hidden treasure of his dreams? He
joined a caravan to travel to Egypt.
Santiago met an Englishman who wanted to learn the secret of alchemy, or
turning any metal into gold, from a famous alchemist who lived at an oasis on the
way to the pyramids. While traveling, Santiago began listening to the desert and
discovering the Soul of the World. The caravan eventually reached the oasis, and
there Santiago met an Arab girl named Fatima and felt in love with her instantly.
The caravan leader gathered the travelers together and told them that tribal
warfare prevented them from continuing their journey.
Santiago wandered from the oasis into the desert and, seeing two hawks
fighting in the sky, had a vision of an army entering the oasis. Because attacking
an oasis is a violation of the rules of the desert, Santiago shared his vision with the
oasis's tribal chieftain. Soon afterward, Santiago was confronted by a
black-garbed, veiled stranger with a sword, who sit atop a white horse. It was the
alchemist. The tribal chieftain armed his men, and they were well-prepared when
the oasis was indeed invaded. The alchemist offered to cross the desert with
Santiago.
Soon the two men entered into an area of intense tribal warfare. Warriors
held the two men captive, but eventually allowed them to continue their journey
after Santiago transformed himself as wind that made all the tribesman afraid. The
alchemist told Santiago that he need to return to the oasis, and that the rest of the
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Santiago arrived at the Egyptian pyramids and began to dig. He found
nothing buried in the ground. Suddenly there were two strangers came to him and
they beat Santiago and robed him of his money. After he told them of his dream,
though, one of the thieves recounts his own dream about a buried treasure in the
sacristy of an abandoned church.
Finally, Santiago could find his hidden treasure when he saw the Pyramids
smiled at him. He found a chest of spanish gold coins. There were also precious
stones, gold masked adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues
embedded with jewels. He would give a tenth of his treasure to Gypsy woman.
And one of the most important thing was that he would back to the Oases and
