"This week, you learned about The Hero's Journey. Trace Santiago's steps along the Hero's Journey, and use the text as evidence."

Santiago's Hero's Journey begins in the ordinary world where he is a Shepard that travels around in Spain, as said in page 11, where he tells his father, "Well, then I'll be a shepherd!" He has used an old church for his shelter when he traveled where he starts to have a dream that repeats every night. Santiago says is, according to page 15, "I dreamed that I was in a field with my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. I don't like people to do that, because the sheep are afraid of strangers. But children always seem to be able to play with them without frightening them... The children went on playing with my sheep for quite a while... And suddenly, the child took me by both hands and transported me to the Egyptian pyramids." After, he travels to the merchant's daughter's city, where he had deeply fallen in love with the merchant's daughter before on a trip that was a year ago; he says on page 8, "He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair, his days would never be the same." Since he is going to see his "long lost love" (who probably doesn't remember him), the boy is really excited to go to the city. He decides to tell his repeating dream to a fortune teller, also known as an old gypsy lady. She calls for adventure when she says that their is treasure awaiting him in the pyramids of Egypt, page 17 "...You must go to the Pyramids in Egypt...there you will find a treasure that will make a rich man." After, he rejects the idea and believes that she is just looking for his money/sheep, which can be seen as the refusal of quest. Shortly after refusing the quest from the elderly gypsy lady, an old man, known as the King, approached him and appeared to know what the treasure is. The king explains that he is a King and that he can show him where his treasure is, as said on page 27, "Tomorrow, at this same time, bring me a tenth of your flock. And I will tell you how to find the hidden treasure." He slowly accepts the idea, page 28, "Maybe tomorrow," he says to a ticket seller for an African trip. Santiago begans to enter the unknown when the Old King starts to speak about omens and Personal Legends, on page 31, "In order, to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you." Also, on page 36, when he is in Africa for the first time "How strange Africanist, thought the boy." An object is given to the boy which are stones that are magical and help him to seeing the yes or no answer in a situation by the white and black color, in page 32-33, "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question." The stones are known as Talisman. There are a lot of allies/helpers in the story as he goes to achieve his Personal Legend, such as (in order of how he met them) the King of Salem(page 19), the merchant(page 47), the Englishmen(page 67), Fatima(page 95), the Alchemist(page 115). The test of his supreme ordeal would be, on page 148, where is forced to turn into the wind due to the reason that he promised that so that he would not died to the thieves who took him. "Let's go see the boy who turns himself into the wind," said the chief that was now in charge of his life. He does turn into the wind from the help of the sun and wind, in which he talks to through his heart. On page 158, "But there were two people who were smiling:the alchemist, because he had found his perfect disciple, and the chief, because that disciple had understood the glory of God." The statement proves that he had turned into the wind. He soon gets to achieve his Personal Legend on page 170, "An hour later, he had before him a chest of Spanish gold coins," and on page 171, "The boy smiled. It was the first time she had done that. "I'm coming, Fatima," He said." Which shows the rewards he got from achieving his Personal Legend, his treasure and Fatima.