2. Why does the king tell his story to be the boy before leaving? What relevance does it have to your life and Santiago’s?



The old man tells him the story so the boy sees every thing in life and not just one thing. In the story a boy walks in the Serra for 6 days. he goes to a castle and a wise man tells him to look at all the paints and things surroundinghis castle with him holding a spoon full of oil and he cant drop any of the oil. he goes around and only looks at the oil and the old man makes him look at all the painting and the boy looses all the oil. The moral of the story is to slow down and to look at all things you pass by but stay on our real quest. the oil to me symbolizes the fire burning in side of us that keeps us going. the picturs and art to me they stand for all the life that flashes by us. To santiago's life the story told him to stay on what he was doing and have his personal legand.