Santiago wanted to go and talk to a girl named Fatima the girl that he met on his way to find a treasure in Egypt. Santiago ended up telling the Englishmen about the girl Fatima that he met; however, the englishmen just told him to “go and try” to talk to her. Since, Santiago knew he was going to tell her something instead of second guess himself and lose his chance to talk to her. When the Englishmen told Santiago to “go and try”. The Englishmen tried to give Santiago an idea of what the difference between going to talk to Fatima or not would be. Although, further in the story the boy and Fatima became really good friends after that thanks to the Englishmen that told him to simply “go and try” to talk to her. Essentially by just going