After reading the book, I came to a conclusion that the main theme of the story is to keep following your dreams no matter how hard the journey will be. Santiago, the young boy, had a very hard journey to achieve his personal legend. Although he lost everything once, he never gave up on his dream on reaching his treasure at the pyramids of Egypt. The conflict of the story was the boy’s journey because he went through the ups and downs of it without stopping. Enhancing the theme by never giving up until his dream of completing the rough journey is met. As the story unravels, it reveals many ways the boy never stopped no matter how rough the journey was. For example, at first he gave up 10% of his herd of sheep to the old king and another 10% of the treasure to the gypsy as soon as he got his hands on it which is much to give away before even starting his journey.As the story continued, the boy lost everything near a marketplace to a boy who was a …show more content…
After this setback, the boy soon made contact with the gods through 2 stones the old king had given him, which told him to keep going until he reached his goal. With some luck, the boy was fed the next day by a crystal glass merchant which the boy would go on to work with for a year, and made the man’s shop very successful to the point where after a year the boy could afford twice as much as sheep he had owned before starting the campaign of his personal legend. After working for the old man for an entire year he knew he couldn’t possibly stop anytime soon and would soon be on his way to the pyramids.he bought a ride with a caravan near his destination at the pyramids. Before and during the ride that would take weeks, he talked with an Englishman who tried teaching the boy about alchemy, but the boy didn’t really understand or found a purpose of it but he thought it was cool because alchemists could turn any metal to