2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their

development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build

on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of

the text.

literature.

     Last week, a few of My Lifers and I finished the book the Alchemist. We had to finish the book by Friday and discuss about the story. The theme in this story was to follow your dreams. The boy in the story, wanted to be a Shepherd who wanted to travel around the world to see new things and learn from them. The story taught many lesson as gave out good advice. Another theme I could say about the book would be, work for what you want in life. The boy worked a lot after giving his flock of sheep away. He worked enough in a crystal shop to recuperate his sheep and buy twice as more sheep than he already had. A quick summary about this book is A boy name Santiago always wanted to travel around the world. He came to see that shepherds would travel around with there flock of sheep. Santiago told his dad that he wanted to become a shepherd, and so he did. Santiago went around to small towns to sell the sheep wool. In a town he had stop at a store and meet a girl that he had falling in love with. Santiago decided to go with a gypsy prayer that would tell his future. She told him that there was a hidden treasure he had to go look for. And so he did and on the way he had meet a few people that helped him get to his treasure, the crystal merchant, Englishman, and the Alchemist. The hidden treasure was located in the Pyramids of Egypt. In the end the boy end up finding the treasure and going back to have a life with Fatima the girl he had met.