APPENDIX
1. Brief of Summary of The Alchemist
The story stared from an anonymous boy works as a shepherd. Upon a time, the boy dreams twice about a child who is playing with his sheep. He
does not like people teasing his sheep, but he becomes amazed, when he realizes that child playing with sheep without frightening them. That child
suddenly takes the boy by his both hand and transports him into the Egyptian Pyramids and the child said if you come here, you will find a hidden
treasure Based on the Gypsys prophecy, the hunt of hidden treasure begun, the
boy meets Melchizedek, a king of Salem that assures him to do so. From this king he learns firstly about wisdom of life that says “when want something, all
universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” The king continuous guiding the boy by remarking “there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny, it
whets your appetite with a taste of success” he tells the boy that to find the treasure, you should follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone
to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you. When the boy reaches Tangier Africa, he is deceived and all his money
is stolen. Fortunately he founds a kind crystal merchant who allows him to work in his shop. He has been working there for 12 months and then feels to
have enough goods and fund to enroll the hunt. He learns a lot of thing and comes into conclusion that is he can learn without-word language; he is going
to understand the word. The boy follows the caravan to across the desert; he meets an
Englishman who obsesses to find out what the alchemist is. From him, the boy learns about the alchemist and his miracle ability. When he stays in oasis as
the neutral place when the tribesmen are fighting each other, he finds out his true love, Fatima, who teaches him about loyalty and honor. Here also he
meets the alchemist who guided him until the end of the story. The boy learns from the alchemist, he has inside him winds, deserts,
oceans, stars, and everything created in the universe. He realizes that all men made by the same hand, and they have the same soul. He knows eventually
that he is a part of soul of the world, the universe, even he acquaintances himself as a part of the hand writes everything-God.
The hunt of treasure is only a way by which the boy hunts knowledge of the reality of the creation, the real treasure that all beings want to have it.
“Because, wherever you heart is that where you’ll find your treasure” through this trail or path, the boy finds out the language without words, his true love,
and the most important is the secret behind existences. Those achievements are concluded as the real treasure he hunts, although he finally finds the
hidden treasure in the form of gold coins and other precious goods.
2. Brief of Biography The Author
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