Book review-The Illustrated Alchemist

This authors work is important because. He talks about the world and the soul of it and it teaches you to have a loving for the world and to cherish life. He also wants you to be able to know how the world work and what you should fulfill in life. He refers to this as a personal legend. The authors theme of the book is in the old times when there where Shepard’s and small villages. There are also no cars just carriages. Also the theme is that each person has a personal legend and some do it and some just dream about it. Also that the villages have very many wise men who help people.

In this book there is a tribal war going on and he explains that know body likes it that it should end. He also refers to the blood in the air and the smell of it. But two of the main characters have to go travel through the war and he explains and believes that you should not give up and just keep believing. He also thinks that if people have problems people should help them. I would explain the purpose of this book to a 3rd grader by saying, each individual has something he or she needs to accomplish even if they need to travel across the world just to find out it was where they started. Then I would say that you cant give up you need to keep going and don’t let anything get in your way. Even if you need to try something new.

The argument that the author is making is that you should enjoy the journey and find the happiness in you and not to just think about the end and the destination. I support this because in real life if you don’t live life and enjoy everyday you will miss out on the world and the happiness. I also agree with it because, if you only focused on the future you would have know idea what is going on around you.

I think that this book would inspire me to read more books about the world and about how it acts. I also think that it would make me to read about thing that will get accomplished and that journey it took them to get there. This book connects to my life because in the book a boy is trying to do the thing in life he is destined to do and to accomplish that he needs to travel through the desert and across the seas. And in my life I want to become an architect, but before I can just become one I need to go through school and study and learn math and graphic design.

I think that the world would be different if we did not each have something that we want to accomplish. For example since we do, people go to work and construction sites, court and travel all over. And if we did not do that everybody would just sit around doing nothing, just watching TV. And nothing in the world would get accomplished. I think that I would change some paragraphs and add some because in the book they keep having breaks where it is a good place to stop and then when you read on it skips 3 days. And I don’t think it should do that very much, it can get confusing.