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The Alchemist is a story that discusses how we should live out our personal legend and how it makes us who we truly are through adventure, strange people, and having to ask the wind to become one so you aren't killed. But through all that, the story is overall around the idea of finding treasure and treasure is discussed throughout the whole book. It started when he goes to sleep, in the beat-down church, he has the same dream twice about a child playing with his sheep then, the child grabbed his hands and took him to the pyramids of Egypt. The woman tells Santiago to give him 1/10th of the treasure when he finds it and he accepts what the woman asks of him then leaves. Santiago is hesitant of the idea that he does actually know where treasure

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