The Alchemist: Reflection

Although I greatly disliked this book for the first 44 pages of the reading, it began to grow on me a little bit as I've progressed. There's a couple main ideas that seem to keep presenting themselves in the book. The first one is the Language of the World. He keeps searching for this language in the ultimate goal to be able to communicate with everyone and everything. It seems as though he learns a little bit of everything from all the things around him. He learns from the crystal shopkeeper, the desert, the alchemist, Fatima, the camel driver, his sheep, the gypsy, and most of all the mysterious King. The second thing that I actually found interesting was the statement about how the King will always appear to those who are searching for their personal legends. The boy mentioned that the back of the crystal shopkeepers head looked like the back of the Kings head and he had one other example that I can't recall right now. I just found this to be intriguing. It may just be coincidence that they look alike and that the boy is just willing his fate to happen. Or, possibly, the King does actually appear to him in his time of crisis. The only thing that I don't like about the book so far is the fact that the kid changes his mind so often based on the stupidest of things called "omens." I can understand that some things are omens like when the Englishmen knows what his stones are. But other things that this Shepard does are just outrageous. He makes crucial life changing decisions in the blink of an eye.