The book “The Alchemist” is a story about a young boy named Santiago, he has a recurring dream about him finding treasure, the story is about his journey to find it. Along the way his character grows, and it develops into a character that you root for in his struggles. At the end of the story you are left with a character that has both positive and negative traits. Traits such as him being too trustworthy, and him proposing to a girl he only saw for a brief moment the day before.…
Even in the face of ordeal and struggle, Santiago, the old man demonstrates ethics and qualities that personify “Code Hero”, one of these many ethics is friendship, which is demonstrated through courage and endurance. Even when the old man is alone, he hopes and thinks of his young friend, the youth, Manolin. “I Wish I had the boy.” (306) The fact that Manolin crosses the old man’s mind so many times must signify the strength and comfort the boy’s presence gives Santiago.…
Santiago's Teachers Throughout “The Alchemist” Throughout “The Alchemist”, the main character, Santiago, is given guidance and advice on how to achieve his personal destiny, and find his treasure. Some of his teachers are his sheep, the king, the alchemist, and the crystal merchant. Each teacher helps Santiago learn crucial lessons in preparing him to meet his personal legend.…
Teaching In the alchemist Santiago learns about a lot about the world during his journey to find his treasure. On this journey he had meet people that help guided him to his treasure and taught him certain things about the world. For instance, he meet the old king in a city while he was sitting on a bench while reading a book. During their conversation the king was telling Santiago about the world's greatest lie, personal legends, and many more.…
Anton and both his parents’ relationships are total opposites from Anton and Echo’s relationship. Between tough love and an addiction that follows Anton everywhere is making him feel worthless. Being addicted to a heavy drug like heroin, takes over a person life mentally and physically. Throughout the whole play John Waters has been trying to give Anton tough love. In the first act after Anton gets kicked out of the Courage Center for not staying clean, John wants to make Anton sleep in the car for four days and if he can do that, then he can come back and sleep in his own bed.…
This relationship displays a connection between youth and age; as Manolin provides strength, Santiago gives wisdom. As a result, a harmony is displayed between the two and what one person does not have, the other provides. This is displayed, as the narrator states, "He no... He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy."…
In the story, Santiago has always had the support of the people around him. One example is his father. His father was always supportive of him, even in the beginning. In the beginning of the story, his father’s support for him can be seen when he agrees to let him pursue his dream of traveling. “The next day, he gave his son a punch that held three ancient Spanish gold coins… ‘I wanted them to be a part of your inheritance.…
The two character go through internal conflicts regarding this life-changing decision. Santiago soon learns another common theme of “If you love something, then set it free. If it returns, then it is yours”. This conflict in Santiago’s journey adds to the work as a whole by adding another lesson but by also showing another central idea relating to his determination towards finishing his…
“When I wake up en fine you back agin’, all safe en soun’, de tears come en… I’s so thankful,” a troubled man says to a troubled young boy after thinking he had lost him (Twain 65). In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a boy nicknamed Huck escapes his old life to begin a journey down the Mississippi River. Throughout the novel, two major male characters are present in Huck’s life and have different effects on him. Jim, a runaway slave, accompanies Huck on his journey on the Mississippi River while Pap, Huck’s unworthy father stays behind. Each relationship develops in similar yet different means.…
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under.”(Anne Frank). Santiago is “the old man” in the story who has endured many problems. He's described as a weak old man whose best days are behind him, whose wife has died, and who never had children. But somehow Hemingway describes Santiago as a code hero. Santiago fits in this frame like the heroes of ‘The undefeated’ because at the beginning of the book he has caught nothing for three months he has to go without a fish.…
Santiago: a Hemingway Code Hero The Old Man and The Sea is a book about an introspective fisherman who has a sense of adventure. Santiago, the main character, goes out fishing and endures one of the greatest battles of his life. As most code heroes do, he perseveres and lives to see another day. He believes “a man can be destroyed but not defeated” (Hemingway 103).…
In The Old Man and the Sea, we meet a very persistent, spirited and old man by the name of Santiago. Poor and proud, Santiago strives daily to live his life of a fisherman to set examples of notable morals and values. After eighty-four days of unsuccessful fishing, the weak man embarks on a five-day journey by sea after hooking an immense marlin. He never gives in to adversity or refuses a good opponent. The old man’s entire existence has been writhe with struggle.…