Review of 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho

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Gold, treasure hunting is often dream of all. But few realize their dream and want to achieve their goals. Books often change lives of many have just heard this cliché in marketing rooms of publishing offices. But everyone would definitely believe it after reading Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’. Gold diggers are always considered as evil conniving, false scheming people, rarely it is so. To dream big is easy, but to fulfill one’s dreams is step which not everybody dares to talk. The book opens our most locked desires and stimulates our hormones to enrage the body to get going.
The story is brought to us by a shepherd boy who travels along fields of Andalusia to
Get food and water for his flock of sheep. He has desire and hobby of traveling, which makes him chose shepherd business for exploring the unexplored. The journey is affected when he has a weird dream about some treasure. To interpret his dreams he lands up at a gypsy fortune teller woman’s place and acknowledges that his dreams are linking him to Egypt, where a treasure awaits to be found by his hand. Denying the prediction, he wanders around just to run into a Arab who claims to be king and reconfirms lady’s take of boy finding the treasure. The boy faces state of shock and dilemma to believe or not to believe in his dreams and people who have realized his dreams. But, finally after selling half of his sheep to the king and other half to a friend, he is off to search his destiny on a boat to another continent, with some gold coins and two stones of omens, given by the King in his pocket. He lands in town of Egypt only to get looted of his treasure on very first evening by a person claiming to be his friend. Dismayed, disappointed he wants to go back to Andalusia to be a shepherd again, but his omens defy him against it. And there he is back on road to search his destiny landing him to a crystal merchant whose business is going through a slag phase. Then tables turn and winds change their direction, the counter at crystal merchant get filled up with currencies due to innovative ideas by the boy. The boy realizes by merchant that pyramids at this stage is impossible so decides to drop the whole hunt and go back home. So, he is busy working at his shop to collect money for his return. Year passes by and when sufficient funds are collected, he is way back to port to disembark this country. But then again, omens strike back leading him to belief that his decision to retreat on fear of defeat is wrong and preposterous. Now again he is off to journey in desert, on a camel with caravan making a companion with an Englishman off to same destination with similar intentions. The journey through desert teaches him ample of things of bitter truth and brutal reality. They have to stop at an oasis, unavoidably where he encounters his true love and reason for existence. Not just that but an encounter awaits him, that changes his life. It is no one but Alchemist who knows that a boy is going to arrive for changing his fate. Then there is a penultimate journey to goal that teaches boy a valuable lesson alongwith readers learning patience. The conclusion of story is finesse touch of author bringing us to horizon of our lives.

The author has mastered talent of story telling and gripping audience to a tale that mesmerizes readers. Unfolding of events leads to unraveling of mysteries hid deep within our hearts. The book definitely makes an impact on peoples thoughts. The words have power to change the course of many lives. Paulo Coelho is know to create ripples in book world and he has managed to keep up the hype and expectations by turning book in gold.