This particular image reflects on the desert and gives you a visual example of the scorching heat and endless barrenness that Santiago had to live through. It gives off a vibe of endless searching and lonliness. This is the most general and typical image to represent The Alchemist but it works because I think that the desert shows emptiness and hopelessness, and in the book I think it represents the seemingly endless travels to the road of success. The way that Santiago makes friends and survives in it represents the way he makes the best of the endless situation Santiago is in. I think that the desert can be interpreted in any way that the viewer or reader wants to but the beauty is that it sends a general message because the desert often symbolizes hopelessness and death, but in the book Coelho reverses it and makes it the road to success. I think that is deep encouragement to lost souls everywhere.
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