Rosa Liz Diaz
Professor Sean M Hanlon
Intro to Literature
September 29, 2016
The Literacy Alchemy of the Alchemist
Santiago is a shepherd from Andalucía. Santiago was a boy that have continually
struggled for the basics of life. When he was young he crushed his parent’s dream of him
becoming a priest. The idea of leaving people behind to follow his dream is a marvelous one.
Surprising as it sounds, support from his parents is what anyone embarking on a major project
expects, like Santiago’s parents did. But what started as hope based on nothing, along the way he
was told that the universe was conspiring to give you what you want. It is more precisely, a
