The story starts with the language of the society.
Why we never follow our dream coz if we become a shepherd in fond of travel, you won’t get a chance to marry a beautiful girl, your bakery owner son will marry . Yess we are forced to live a life that is “convenient to the understanding of the society” but we always deprived of continuing our dream. That’s the karma in built……. if you live inside the society.
IF you wish then the cosmos conceive to complete the wish. thing falls into places on its own.Everyone of us would have unconsciously experienced this experiences. If you believe and move yourself and you are certain to reach the desired one.
The whole beauty he was travelling though he doesn’t know the language he will compare his sheep it will never speak to him but he still relate and know their language and the same if I travel with strange people. the language was never a barrier especially to the traveler. Amazing Truth!
The Cream of Travel is unknown place with unknown people ……Right
The two stone which he carries are nothing but hope!!
the merchant daughter was nothing but his feminine archetype, she always comes and goes in his mind .. whenever he fails to connect her {inner merchant daughter}. he think she will marry a bakery owner son. I loved and lived that part of expression.
When he was cheated by a thief he was not worried coz he know travel means risk and
his society mind always want to get back to his native place to live a peaceful life and chance of getting married to his dream girl.. This part reflect the true mind of a boy.
He will meet an Englishman on the way, who want to become an alchemist and finally he meet a Alchemist. he enlighten him. He bring the power out of the shepherd boy. The beauty when the shepherd boy turn himself into a wind. He speak to Desert first, then Wind and finally to the Sun. The Author emphasizes we carry the content of all the things in the world. We can become a Sun to our family and Moon to our Girlfriend. We are the cosmos and the cosmos was nothing but we. Amazing!!
Finally an awareness about metals. The metal ‘lead’ has its own destiny like Gold but it has no business to become Gold but an alchemist found when the lead has no role to play then he convert the lead into gold.
The author spilled wisdom throughout the book
Any one who read this book as fiction may disappoint and the book definitely a food to Masculine Energy in us.
Finally you take away
Your dream has a reasoning and truth and its not just dreams!!