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Warm Up. Read the background provided for you on Paulo Coelho.   In the “About the Author” section, highlight/underline three interesting facts about Paulo Coelho.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up • Read the background provided for you on Paulo Coelho.   • In the “About the Author” section, highlight/underline three interesting facts about Paulo Coelho. • Based on what you read about him, predict what type of conflict might be present in The Alchemist. What type of characters? What themes? Objective: Build background for The Alchemist and start the novel study.

  2. The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

  3. The alchemist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwkxzx6N6XE

  4. What is an alchemist? • One who practices alchemy, the art of transforming baser, inexpensive metals into gold. • Alchemists searched for the “elixir of life” and a “universal solvent” • Alchemy was practiced in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance

  5. Fable • A fable is a brief tale • It offers a moral (a lesson). • They mostly feature animal characters. • Fables convey simple truths. • The themes occur repeatedly in many stories and across countries and cultures.

  6. Characters & Tricksters • Often fables and trickster tales illustrate how a smaller or weaker animal uses cunning to outwit a larger, stronger animal. • Characters do not change their viewpoints.

  7. Examples of Morals • Slow and steady wins the race. • Like attracts like. • Look before you leap • A person is known by the company he keeps.

  8. Fable • Some well-known fables include: • Aesop’s fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare” • Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book • George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

  9. Archetypes • An archetype is a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal. • From the Greek arkhetypon, meaning "pattern, model”

  10. Archetype Examples • Examples: • The Hero (i.e. Harry Potter) • The Mentor (i.e. Professor Dumbledore) • The Soul Mate/Beautiful Lady (i.e. Ginny) • The Trickster (i.e the Weasley twins) • The Castle (i.e. Hogwarts) • The Threshold Guardian (i.e. the sorting hat)

  11. introduction • The Alchemist is written in a fable format. • What is a fable, and why would Coelho use it to tell his story? • Generally speaking, fables use recognizable, simple characters and settings in order to illustrate a simple truth about life or human nature. • What is it that Coelho attempts to teach?

  12. The alchemist • Even though you may not initially understand some of the unusual terminology in the story (Soul of the World, for example), its themes are ones which are probably familiar to you. • The novel integrates ideas and philosophies of many faiths and historical periods. Many of these ideas concern the pursuit of truth, one’s intended destiny and the attainment of personal happiness. Coelho refers to these combined elements as one’s “Personal Legend.” Coelho tells the story of Santiago in order to teach us how we may find and live out our own Personal Legends.

  13. The alchemist • These ideas, though, have been explored since ancient times in one form or another by countless faiths and peoples. • Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Taoism, Christianity, Judaism, countless tribal cultures, in addition to ancient and modern philosophers, all attempt to define the idea of one’s Personal Legend (though they may call it by different names), and all subscribe paths to achieving personal fulfillment. • Thus, although the legend is about no faith or philosophy in particular, it is about all faiths and philosophies.

  14. Prologue • What does it mean to be vain? • Is vanity a good or bad quality?

  15. Echo and narcissus

  16. Prologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9okcHqdQdA

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