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Personality and Problems of Adjustment. New York: F.S. Crofts Co., 1945. Print. 83 APPENDIXES DIX 1 84 APPENDIX 1 SUMMARY OF THE STORY The novel opens with a prologue. It tells when the Alchemist is in the caravan. He picks a book of someone there and leafs through the pages. He finds a story about Narcissus. He knows the story. It is about a youth who daily kneels down besides the lake just to contemplate his beauty. Until one day, he falls into the lake and drowns. At the spot where he falls, a flower arises, the narcissus. In fact, the author ends it differently. The lake becomes a salty lake. When Narcissus dies, the forest goddesses come to the lake. They ask to the lake why the lake weeps. The lake answers that it is for Narcissus. The goddesses aren’t surprise because it is only the lake who contemplates his beauty. But the lake isn’t sure whether Narcissus is beautiful. The goddesses are surprised. And the lake says that he weeps for him but never notice his beauty. What the lake sees in everyday when Narcissus kneels is the lake own beauty in his eyes. The Alchemist thinks that it is a lovely story. This story tells about a boy, named Santiago, who travels from Spain to Egypt to find the treasure. Santiago is a well educated person because he studied in seminary. His father wants him to become a priest but he decides to become a shepherd because he wants to travel around the world. His father finally gives him blessing even though he fells reluctant. Santiago also gets some money from him. He uses it to buy some sheep. From that day he is a shepherd and travels around Andalusia. At one night, when Santiago sleeps in an old church where a sycamore grows he has a recurrent dream. He gets it twice and it annoys him much. He consults to a Gypsy PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 85 woman in the nearby city about his dream. The Gypsy woman tells him that it is about the hidden treasure in Egypt. Santiago does not believe her because she does not tell him how he can get there. Then the boy meets an old man in the park while he is reading a book. He introduces himself as Melchizedek, the King of Salem. He asks Santiago to give him one-tenth of his flock and he will tell him how to find the hidden treasure. Melchizedek also tells him that it is important for one to follow his Personal Legend. Santiago realizes that his Personal Legend is travelling. He gives what the old wants and he gets some advice if he decides to travel to Pyramids in Egypt. Santiago decides to find his treasure. After arriving in Africa, he meets a stranger who promises to show him the way to Pyramids. The stranger asks if he has enough money to buy camels and Santiago shows all to him. He takes it and takes Santiago to the market to buy some camels. Unfortunately, just in a blink when he is attracted with a sword there, the stranger is gone with all the money he takes. Since he loses all what he has, Santiago works for a crystal merchant for almost a year. Working with the crystal merchant makes Santiago learns Arabic well. After working almost a year, Santiago has money and he is about too sure to go back to Spain to buy some sheep and becomes a shepherd again. Then he remembers with the hidden treasure in Pyramids after some talking with the crystal merchant. Santiago feels sad and confused. Melchizedek’s words remain him that when he really wants something, the entire universe will conspire to help him. He quickly decides to find his treasure and at the same moment he feels tremendously happy. Santiago is lucky because there is a caravan which is about going to Pyramids today. Because of the tribal war, the caravan has to postpone its journey to Pyramids. They stay in the oasis. There Santiago meets Fatima, the desert woman, and he falls in 86 love with her. Santiago wants to marry her and stay in the oasis with her. It means he does not have to continue his journey to find the hidden treasure. He considers that Fatima is worthier than the hidden treasure. The Alchemist appears when Santiago is about leaving his Personal Legend. He tells him some possibilities if he lets his dream just become dream. Then, Santiago is very sure that if he leaves Fatima, she will wait for him until he comes back only for her. He talks it with her and she supports him. Since Santiago believes the Alchemist, he decides to go to Pyramids with him. During the journey, they face many terrible things. They meet a tribal chief man in a military camp. He will kill Santiago unless he can transform himself into wind. Again, he has to postpone his journey. Fortunately, he does it well after three days waiting and they continue their journey. But when only several hours toward to Pyramids, the Alchemist lets him alone to find it. Finally, Santiago arrives in Pyramids. He remembers what the Alchemist said to him; where your treasure is, there also will be your heart. His heart is full with the story of a shepherd. Then, he starts digging the sand to fin the treasure. After hours, he does not find anything but he keeps digging. Suddenly, some refugees of the tribal war come to him and ask what he is hiding, but Santiago said he does not hide anything there. Harshly, they beat him to get all what he has. Feeling desperate and hurt he tells them about his recurrent dream about finding treasure in Pyramids. They just laugh and leave him alone. Yet, one of them comes back and tells him that he also has had a recurrent dream two years ago. It is also about finding treasure in an old church where shepherds and their sheep sleep in Spain. He would go there and dug where a sycamore grows in the sacristy. Since he does not believe it, he does not do it. Then he leaves him. Santiago smiles and knows where his treasure really is. Adapted from: Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. 2006