Question each other and dig deeper. This is a book with many layers. What does the word "fate" mean to you all, for instance? Is this book only about religion or something more?
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Kaileigh Rosa, My first reaction to the book was it realy gave me a good idea of the plot and the charactors suroundings. I like how they reafer to the charictors as girl, or the women, and the boy they dont use the charictors names but u no who there talking about.
Kimberly Downing I find the character (pretty much only character introduced) Santiago interesting. He seems to be quite content when you are first introduced to him, traveling and taking care of his sheep. He also is quite interested in his destiny, that he was thought to have, and how he changed that, by becoming a shepard (because of how he likes to travel) verses becoming a priest, and appeasing his parents. From what I have read I think the theme of the book, his Santiago's journy to understading the universal language, omens and signs sent from a larger power.
Kimberly Downing Block 2 Day1 This next section is very interesting. I find it weird that the king said that when someone really wants something the whole world works to help him or her acheive that goal. If that is so then why does the main character get robbed? That was a question I had at first, but I think that him getting robbed led him to worl at the chrystal shop and that allowed him to eventually get to his personal legend. I guess it has to be a little more complicated and difficult than it would be in the best case scenerio.
Katie Brewington To me fate isn't really religion. Fate is just that things happen for a reason, and where you are in life is where you are supposed to be. So with the shephard, he lost his money for a reason. It led him to the crystal shop and that must've gave him something he needed to keep moving towards his personal legend, or it wouldn't have happened.
Katie Brewington Reading what Kimberly said about things being a little more complicated than they have to be, I thought of something. Santiago had a setback that made him go work at the crystal shop. But at the crystal shop, he helped the owneer expand it and bring in a ton of money. The owner hadn't really been making much before, and since he never had money he never made it to Mecca for his pilgrimmage. Maybe with the money, he might go there someday. As Santiago goes along his journey, I have a feeling he'll end up helping people, like he did with the owner.
Kimberly Downing Block 1 day 2 Well it's interesting to think that like the baker (first introduced by the king) the crystal shop own has settled there. His personal legend wasn't to become who they are. Once they have chosen not to follow their personal legend, then they tend to stay static (or unchanging.) Once the boy shows up to the crystal shop he changes things and makes results and at some point I remember the crystal shop owner almost un happy that the shop was doing so well. He wanted to pretend that the varibles that made it hard to be sucessful (like the hill) weren't obsticles he could get around, and the crystal shop would always be the same. Later in the book, with the englishman and the learning of alchemy, I feel that the Englishman is thinking too much. Like the book said that all the secrets to alchemy can be fit onto a pebble. So the rest of the information must sent to whoever whats to know in messages coded in omens. The boy seems to have a nack for understanding this, and doesn't learn much or put much investment in the englishman's books. I thnk it is the way the boy goes with his internal feeling or want that allows him to fullfill is true fate, or maybe or fate is based on your personality. If a person has an adventerous personality one whom does not "settle" than your fate maybe to be a shepard, but if one has a personality to please than that person may have followed their parent's wished and had become a preist, even if they had dreamed of traveling like the boy had.
Kimberly Downing Block 1 Day two Well i guess we are suppose to have a conversation on this blog or comment on other people's entry's but no one is posting anything!! So how am I suppose to post three times?
Nicole McIntyre This book is very interesting to me I love thinking in the way of it. This book reflects upon many properties of life that many are too busy to notice. At first I didn't notice that the king was more like a God. Why is "the king" from Salem? Anyways, the further Santiago goes from his home and the more people he meets the closer he is to his personal legend. Santiago has to give to get to his personal legend.
Nicole McIntyre In the book the Kings says the world greatest lie is that in a certain point of our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. This really stuck out to me because I understand what he is saying. A part of why I like this book is because it makes me look at life in a different way; like fate. The the people, and place at that time, along with the decisions I make are what compose my fate. We all have the power to control our own destiny. The trouble is decisions. We all conform to working and living a basic life, but there is more to life if you make the right decisions.
Nicole McIntyre ......So, another concept I think is very interesting is the concept of beginners luck. When I started to think about beginners luck I started to notice that humans are very lucky. We are accidents waiting to happen. Going down stairs for example, about once a week I almost fall down the stairs when I'm in a rush, but I still haven't actually fallen. What are our odds in all of these situations we put ourselves into?
Amber Allen Day one Block two While reading this book i tried to compare it to our everyday living. If someone today they were following there omens we would probulaly laugh and point. Its cool to imagine a world once like that, where you have to learn to live and when you get a job you tend to stick to it. The whole book was like a adventure that i would like to go on. I tried to think of what my life destiny would have been or is now while reading this book. The problem is that Gypsies are hard to find in our culture today.
Kimberly Downing Block 2 Day 1 Overall I think that the ending proved that if you follow your personal legend the future has already been decided. The events in your life happen because of the path that you choose. So even when something really bad happens to you like getting beaten up and robbed, it leads to something ten times better happening to you like finding your treasure, and you can't bypass those bad times, because that is how you learn and grow. It is also how you develop appreciation for the good times.
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Kaileigh Rosa, My first reaction to the book was it realy gave me a good idea of the plot and the charactors suroundings. I like how they reafer to the charictors as girl, or the women, and the boy they dont use the charictors names but u no who there talking about.
Kimberly Downing
I find the character (pretty much only character introduced) Santiago interesting. He seems to be quite content when you are first introduced to him, traveling and taking care of his sheep. He also is quite interested in his destiny, that he was thought to have, and how he changed that, by becoming a shepard (because of how he likes to travel) verses becoming a priest, and appeasing his parents. From what I have read I think the theme of the book, his Santiago's journy to understading the universal language, omens and signs sent from a larger power.
Kimberly Downing Block 2 Day1
This next section is very interesting. I find it weird that the king said that when someone really wants something the whole world works to help him or her acheive that goal. If that is so then why does the main character get robbed? That was a question I had at first, but I think that him getting robbed led him to worl at the chrystal shop and that allowed him to eventually get to his personal legend. I guess it has to be a little more complicated and difficult than it would be in the best case scenerio.
Katie Brewington
To me fate isn't really religion. Fate is just that things happen for a reason, and where you are in life is where you are supposed to be. So with the shephard, he lost his money for a reason. It led him to the crystal shop and that must've gave him something he needed to keep moving towards his personal legend, or it wouldn't have happened.
Katie Brewington
Reading what Kimberly said about things being a little more complicated than they have to be, I thought of something. Santiago had a setback that made him go work at the crystal shop. But at the crystal shop, he helped the owneer expand it and bring in a ton of money. The owner hadn't really been making much before, and since he never had money he never made it to Mecca for his pilgrimmage. Maybe with the money, he might go there someday. As Santiago goes along his journey, I have a feeling he'll end up helping people, like he did with the owner.
Kimberly Downing Block 1 day 2
Well it's interesting to think that like the baker (first introduced by the king) the crystal shop own has settled there. His personal legend wasn't to become who they are. Once they have chosen not to follow their personal legend, then they tend to stay static (or unchanging.) Once the boy shows up to the crystal shop he changes things and makes results and at some point I remember the crystal shop owner almost un happy that the shop was doing so well. He wanted to pretend that the varibles that made it hard to be sucessful (like the hill) weren't obsticles he could get around, and the crystal shop would always be the same.
Later in the book, with the englishman and the learning of alchemy, I feel that the Englishman is thinking too much. Like the book said that all the secrets to alchemy can be fit onto a pebble. So the rest of the information must sent to whoever whats to know in messages coded in omens. The boy seems to have a nack for understanding this, and doesn't learn much or put much investment in the englishman's books. I thnk it is the way the boy goes with his internal feeling or want that allows him to fullfill is true fate, or maybe or fate is based on your personality. If a person has an adventerous personality one whom does not "settle" than your fate maybe to be a shepard, but if one has a personality to please than that person may have followed their parent's wished and had become a preist, even if they had dreamed of traveling like the boy had.
Kimberly Downing Block 1 Day two
Well i guess we are suppose to have a conversation on this blog or comment on other people's entry's but no one is posting anything!! So how am I suppose to post three times?
Nicole McIntyre
This book is very interesting to me I love thinking in the way of it. This book reflects upon many properties of life that many are too busy to notice. At first I didn't notice that the king was more like a God. Why is "the king" from Salem? Anyways, the further Santiago goes from his home and the more people he meets the closer he is to his personal legend. Santiago has to give to get to his personal legend.
Nicole McIntyre
In the book the Kings says the world greatest lie is that in a certain point of our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. This really stuck out to me because I understand what he is saying. A part of why I like this book is because it makes me look at life in a different way; like fate. The the people, and place at that time, along with the decisions I make are what compose my fate. We all have the power to control our own destiny. The trouble is decisions. We all conform to working and living a basic life, but there is more to life if you make the right decisions.
Nicole McIntyre
......So, another concept I think is very interesting is the concept of beginners luck. When I started to think about beginners luck I started to notice that humans are very lucky. We are accidents waiting to happen. Going down stairs for example, about once a week I almost fall down the stairs when I'm in a rush, but I still haven't actually fallen. What are our odds in all of these situations we put ourselves into?
Amber Allen
Day one Block two
While reading this book i tried to compare it to our everyday living. If someone today they were following there omens we would probulaly laugh and point. Its cool to imagine a world once like that, where you have to learn to live and when you get a job you tend to stick to it. The whole book was like a adventure that i would like to go on. I tried to think of what my life destiny would have been or is now while reading this book. The problem is that Gypsies are hard to find in our culture today.
Kimberly Downing Block 2 Day 1
Overall I think that the ending proved that if you follow your personal legend the future has already been decided. The events in your life happen because of the path that you choose. So even when something really bad happens to you like getting beaten up and robbed, it leads to something ten times better happening to you like finding your treasure, and you can't bypass those bad times, because that is how you learn and grow. It is also how you develop appreciation for the good times.
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