One of the
first lessons that the boy learns comes after he is robbed in Tangier. As he looks at the people
around him the next morning, he realizes the following:
He
was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and
weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. . . He realized: If I can learn to
understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. (43-44)
Most young people want to understand the world in which they
livethe boy isn't much different. Consequently, not only does he want to understand the world,
but he wants to carve out a life for himself by realizing his Personal Legend and finding
his treasure. Therefore, after being robbed, he examines his choice: to go back to his old life
or to continue forward with his journey. It is at this point that he realizes that he must get
back up and try again whenever he is knocked down, if he is ever to succeed. As a result,
Santiago pays closer...
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