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funny. The merchant tells Santiago that the money he will get from the work in crystal store is not enough to fund his journey to Egypt, for it is too far from
Tangier and there is thousands kilometers of desert. Santiago, absolutly, can afford the caravan to ride on the desert.
2. The Call to Adventure
The call to adventure is actually a process of selection in which a selected hero, willingly or not, must take responsibility. As noted in chapter two, the call to
adventure comes in special circumstances like a dark forest or an abandoned sacred building. The change of the event signifies that a destiny will test
hero’s spirituality and takes him from his ordinary world out to a zone of unknown. In
the novel, Santiago’s recurrent dream is the call to adventure. Meanwhile, the change of the event is the transformation of the plot line from the reality to the
realm of dream. This transformation signifies that there is an adventure that Santiago must take to leave Andalusia for a place that he has never been there
before. The call may come more than once in order to get the respond from the hero. Moreover, the call is generally brought by heralds that bring such
temptations and knowledge to awaken the hero that he must undertake the adventure.
a. The Call Comes More than Once
The call to adventure comes not only from Santiago ’s dream, but also
from his wish. Both wish and dream coincidentally happen as he arrives and camps in the abandoned church under a sycamore tree. The wish is the call since,
according to Jung in Vogler, 2007: 100, the call to adventure could be simply
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coincidental occurrence of words or ideas to the need of action and change. In the early of the story, Santiago tells to himself that he is bored of his activity of
traveling. Everyday in two years he has doing the same activities and has passing the Andalusia many times. he feels that he needs more action to change and
develope, maybe doing some more interesting job. He declares his situation like a simply book, he says that he
“has to start reading thicker books; they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows Coelho, 1993: 3, for the more great
the experience he gets the more satisfying his life. This wish is not only the inner problem but also the call. It signifies that in the deep of the hero
’s mind, he actually needs a new, great, and worth experience for his life like a thicker book.
Moreover, the wish indicates that the hero is a selected person to get the call for adventure.
Beside the wish, a recurrent dream has put Santiago in curious thought. “I
wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had
awakened before it ended” Coelho, 1993: 4. The aim of the call that comes more than once is to get the response from
Santiago. For, the call to adventure will always come through the hero’s inner self
like the wish or dream until it gets a response.
b. The Call is Brought by the Herald
The call generally is brought by the herald with such temptations and knowledge to awaken the hero that he must undertake the adventure. A curious
thought about the dream has brought Santiago to a Gipsy woman to interpret the dream. This datum is a depiction when Santiago tells the Gipsy woman that he
