Question

Earlier in the story the alchemist told santiago "When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed." At the end of the novel, how did this simple lesson change santiago's life? How did it lead him back to the treasure he was looking for?

Answer 1

Explanation:  The message the Alchemist told Santiago was that if you tell someone you have a great treasure and have traveled a huge journey, in this case from Andalusia to the pyramids in Egypt, to find the buried treasure because you dreamed of it twice, almost no one he won't believe you. The fact that Santiago was believed by a gypsy, then by the old King, Fatima, but the vast majority of ordinary people did not, and this is evident at the very end, when the bandits found him digging to find treasure. After they beat him up and questioned why he was doing this, he told them his dream of treasure, they laughed and left him in his life thinking that he was stupid. He was also told that one of bandits also dreamed of a buried treasure under an old pear next to an abandoned church in Andalusia, but the bandit was not stupid to believe it and embark on a big trip to Spain. Then Santiago understood the words of the Alchemist, and realized that the treasure he sought around the world was, in fact, at all times where he was resting and napping while guarding sheep. So he went back and found what he was looking for.