People
The boy who is the main character.
Who is Santiago?
Santiago’s home country.
What is Spain?
What Santiago sells to start his journey.
What are sheep?
Where Santiago’s dream says the treasure is.
What are the pyramids?
Santiago’s goal or life dream.
What is his Personal Legend?
He tells Santiago about the Personal Legend.
Who is Melchizedek?
Where Santiago is heading to find treasure.
What are the pyramids (Egypt)?
A symbol of Santiago’s dream.
What is the treasure?
What Santiago watches for during the caravan journey.
What are signs (or omens)?
Santiago’s job before his journey.
What is a shepherd?
He steals Santiago’s money in Tangier.
Who is the guide boy (thief)?
Where Santiago works and learns business.
What is the crystal shop?
Items Santiago helps sell.
What is crystal (or crystal glasses)?
A theme in following your dream
What is taking risks?
Why the crystal merchant won’t go to Mecca.
What is fear?
He hires Santiago to work in his shop.
Who is the crystal merchant?
The desert group Santiago joins.
What is the caravan?
What the Englishman does all the time.
What are books/reading?
Who helps Santiago understand his dream.
Who is the gypsy woman?
The place Santiago learns from nature and other travelers.
What is the desert (or the caravan)?
He is studying alchemy and joins the caravan.
Who is the Englishman?
City where Santiago gets robbed.
What is Tangier?
The stones Melchizedek gives him.
What are Urim and Thummim?
What Melchizedek says the universe does when you follow your dream.
What is "helps you"?
Santiago says that “people learn early in their lives what is their reason for being,” but forget it later. Based on the story so far, why do people forget their Personal Legend?
Because of fear, comfort, and the belief that dreams are impossible. They stop listening to their hearts and settle for less.