While there are no explicit sexual themes, the main lead is mentally and emotionally only thirteen-years-old when sexual/physically romantic scenes occur between her and the male characters. Throughout the series, scenes take place in strip clubs and brothels, and there are multiple scenes of domestic violence from various male characters. When her lover comes to her rescue, the abuser is mocked for having being molested by his grandmother as a child. S1E5: the aforementioned husband kidnaps, ties up and disfigures his ex-wife with a knife. It is hinted that the abusive husband was himself abused as a child. S1E4: the female protagonist explains that her ex-husband abused and raped her on their wedding night. He told the boy: “ We could get to the Pyramids by tomorrow, but I’ll have to buy two camels.The shows contains a love story between a woman from the 1960s and a man pretending to be someone else since he is coming from the future: he reveals his true identity in S1E5. Near the beginning of the boy’s quest for his personal legend, a new guy approached the boy and said he could help him reach the Pyramids. They were very simple and followed a certain routine every day: eat, drink, and sleep. The flock of sheep were another symbol of people who didn’t follow their personal legend. ” Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” – is very like to the crystal merchant’s personality. The crystal merchant is an example of someone who didn’t follow their personal legend, instead, he dreams of other’s reaching theirs’s. Therefore making the alchemist believe the Englishman was not ready to reach his personal legend.
This is shown by the Englishman, he was so focused on the books about alchemy ( his personal legend), but never his desert surroundings (the journey) that of which the boy took notice of. In the context of the book, this means those who aim only for the treasure at the end of their personal legends, will never succeed as those who focus and the present and journey.
Those who are thinking only of the future will never do as well as those in the present. In ‘The Alchemist’, Coelho tries to create a very fixed thought on personal legends, and how the journey teaches you more than the destination. The eagles in the desert are another motive that the boy trusts and follows, which shows the boy good and bad events that lie ahead. But in the end, the bad decisions also helped him, as he, later on, thinks more carefully about his actions. The boy made both good and bad decisions in who to trust, take the scammer he met at Tangier. TrustĬoelho uses techniques such as personification to inspire the reader and develop the idea of trust. On the journey, he overcomes many obstacles and never gives up, and in the end is rewarded with true happiness and the indefinite meaning of life. The book is about a shepherd who wants to unveil the depths of his personal legend, or his treasure. Coelho uses narrative techniques in his book to furthermore enhance the reader’s understanding of personal legends, trust, and persistence. Like his own personal legend, which was to get a successful novel published. He creates and brings distinct characters to life through his personal experiences, like the hardship he went through trying to publish his book. ‘The Alchemist’, a book from Paulo Coelho, creates a very set mindset for the reader and that is ‘new ways of thinking’.
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