Question 2 Ally R

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?

Before the boy left on his journy to find his personal legend, the king told Santiago the story of the boy on a search for the key to finding hapiness. The boy arrived the castle of the wisest man on earth, and the man told him to go look at his castle, because "you can't trust a man unless you know his house." The man has a catch though- he gives the boy a spoon with two drops of oil in it. The boy has to make sure he doesn't drop any of the oil while he observes the house. The boy returns with no oil, and the man tells him that the secret to happiness is being able to enjoy life while keeping the oil in the spoon. I think the king tells this stroy to the boy because the boy needs to learn that even though you might be focused on one thing, you still have to stop and take notice of the things around you.

I think this is important to any person's life, because even though you might want to be a scientist or a rock star, you have to look at what surrounds you because you can learn from it, and maybe because of that you might decide that you really want to be something else. Like my dad, he went to school to be an accountant and ended up the manager of a world class ski resort. If you don't look around, you might miss things that you need for your personal legend. Santiago knows he needs to find the hidden treasure in Egypt. On that journy he could realize what he was meant to do, because it might not be shephearding.