The Alchemist is an allegory that shows readers that each person needs to discover their own Personal Legend.

Which quotation from the novel best supports this statement?


“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought.”

“’It is this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.’”

“He [the boy] thought that, with some patience, he’d be able to transform everything into gold.”

“There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can’t teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant.”