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Alchemist Journal #3

Alchemist Journal #3

Finn

Language Arts

10/7/12

“The secret is here in the present. IF you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve upon the present, what comes later will also be better.... Each day, in itself, brings with it an Eternity.” (Pg. 104)


I think what they are trying to touch up on the Karma effect. What goes around comes around. Like when santiago started working in the crystal shop and started cleaning glasses and crystals. He was hoping that since he was doing a good deed, good things would happen to him.
I think what happened at the port when Santiago got r robbed ,that was an act of karma also. He sold his sheep, and even though it was to fulfill his personal legend, it still happened. When the king said, “When you want something, the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” (Pg. 22) The universe definitely conspired against him and he got robbed. It may be that all things are one, but it seems that the universe and karma are on different terms or have different thoughts on some things and working together.
Also, some bad karma could be like hypocrisy, just without you even realizing it or doing it on accident. Like if you were to say to someone, don’t break your arm on those monkey bars, and then you turn around, trip, and end up breaking your arm, BAM, karma just gotcha.

Alchemist Journal #2

Alchemist Journal #2

Finn Clark

9/18/12

Language Arts

I Would think roles of luck and coincidence play in universal language is the same way as it plays in Santiago’s life. Santiago’s has begun as a shepherd, and on his way to a city he met the king, luck and coincidence. The king helped Santiago find out his personal legend, it was the thing about his dream. Then the king showed him the way to his personal legend. On the caravan to the place where his treasure was, he met an Englishman who told him about the book and the alchemist. When they arrive at the oasis he meets Fatima and falls in love, luck and coincidence. When he’s out in the desert and sees the hawks, he has a vision, luck and coincidence. Luck and coincidence play a very big role in Santiago’s life, and even, some in mine.
When I was 8, I had just moved to California. I, of course after playing soccer in Maryland, began playing soccer in Humboldt. I was on a team called the green Hornets, considering our color was green.
Now Garrett Adamo had just moved to Humboldt from Alabama and decided to play soccer, he was put on a team called the green Hornets.

1. Our team was the best team in the league, we won every game. Me and Garrett had began to talk and became good friends. I didn’t know it, but my mom had started talking to his mom, sue, and they had become friends before me and Garrett did. Now, five years later, Garrett and me are best friends, we haven’t fought once. I think him and myself are going to be friends for a long time, I would call that luck and coincidence, we both moved, went on the same team, and became best friends.

Alchemist Journal #1

Journal #1

Finn Clark

9/12/12

Language Arts

My drops of oil, I would think is my family. I could be off, later in life, doing something somewhere else, and I would never forget my family, like the wise man had said in the Alchemist, “Enjoy the marvels of the world, but never forget your drops of oil”. My family is my oil in the spoon while I’m enjoying my life around the world and back to where I live, so I don’t forget my drops of oil. They are my roots and I could never grow tall and strong without the comfort and safety I recieve from them.
I could never spill my drops of oil without something to catch them and put them back on my spoon, so I couldn’t ever lose or spill or forget my drops of oil on my spoon. My spoon contains my memory, my oil contains my family, with both of them in or on each other, it’s impossible for me to ever spill it.

If I spilt my oil, I would be ashamed for forgetting such important dates and memories that they have brought me or are bringing and some that are to come in my future and in theirs. I will do my best to never ever forget my drops of oil in my spoon and do my best to remind them to keep an eye on theirs so we don’t ever forget each other, I hope that in the years to come it will stay like this and until the end of time so that way it is best for everyone that may or may not be in my family, but in others as well.

This book is a very well made book for making others and myself realize things we have not before. The deeper messages are very well written and it takes some digging to uncover them but it’s all worth it in the end.

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