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The Ordinary World
Its what the hero has grown up doing and it feels like home even if it isnt actually, its the spot were that person feels the most safe. Santiago's ordinary world is traveling around spain with his sheep selling woll. After doing this for so long he has grown a big conection with his sheep ¨It was if some mysterious energy bound his life of his sheep¨ (Coelho 5). which shows how conected him and his sheep are. -
The Call to Adventure
This is where the story begins. Its when the hero gets an idea from someone or something. In Santiago's case he keeps having an reacuring dream to find his personal legend to guide him to an awaiting tresure. "He was going to save the little money he had because of a dream about hidden tresure" (Coelho 14). -
Refusal
This is when the hero trys to make excuses not to follow throgh with the journey. Satiago knows he wants to go, but he feels like he cannot do it so he trys to convince himself otherwise. " My sheep will be lonley without me" (Coelho 17). -
Mentor/ Helper
This is a person that you meet who encourages you to go on the journey and tells you all the amazing benifits. In Santiago's Case he meets a Gypsy/ Dream leader, and she tells he that he will find a tresure at the ancint pyrimeds in egpyt. "You came so that you could learn about your dreams,"And dreams are the language of God" (Coelho 31).The gypsy lady trying to tell Santiago that he should pay attention to his dreams because they are one of the ways that God is trys to comunicate with us. -
Crossing the threshold
Crossing the threshold is a big part of the heros journey. This part is about when the hero leaves and begins there journey. Santiago sells his flock and takes a boat to Tangier, Africa. "Africa looks so much different" (Coelho 38). -
Test/ Allies/ Enemies
This is when the hero is faced with a test they have to over come.Santiago was definetly tested when he trusted someone too fast and he got robbed of most of his belongings."I’m going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me" (Coelho 95). -
Approch
This when the hero is fixing his set backs and continuing on there journey. Santiago needed to earn back the money he lost so he got a job working for a crystal merchant. Then he joins a caravan so he can coninue his journey to the pyrimids. He approches this making sure he dosnt make the same mistakes as last time."Santiago and the Englishman join the caravan, which consists of over two hundred people" (Coelho 124). -
Ordeal, Death or Rebirth
This is when the hero discovers a new self and strives for bigger and better things. In the book this hapens when Santiago meets fatima and the alchemist and they introduce him to meny bigger and better things. " The desert replies that it can provide its sand to help the wind blow, but no more" (Coelho 169). this shows that he was taught to listen to the wind not just your own thoughts. -
Reward
The Reward is what the hero has been lookinf for and any new tresures found along the way. Santiago has fallen in love with fatima so when he reaches his final goal and finds out where the tresure actually is they go back to the sycomore tree where he knows the tresure is to claime it. "There is only oneway to learn. its through action" (Coelho 198). -
Road Back
The hero is officially is going home to see there family again. After serching for months in the desert Santiago finaly heads home to spain to claime his tresure and his girl. "When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises” (Coelho 190). These are words to live by. -
Resurrection
This is the last test to see if the hero is truly a hero. Santiago fufills this task by getting tested one more time by robbers, but they where foolish and didnt belive that there was a tresure. So he contiued on his ath home to greatness. “Every search begins with beginners luck and ends with the victor’s being severely tested” (Coelho 195). -
Return
The return is all about all the rewards from your journey and reflecting on all the memories made. When Santiago gets to the sycamore tree and finds all the buried tresure he thinks back at all the amazing memorys he made and all the wonderfull people he met, and if he didnt go he would have never met the love of his life fatima. "“Every search begins with beginners luck. And every search ends with the victor being severely tested" (Coelho 196).
