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Identity:  The fact of being who or what a person or thing is. This connects to the prologue of how Narcissus and the lake saw the reflection of their own beauty.

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Values-nurtured in particular societies and the ways they shape individuals, communities and educational systems. They might also explore the tensions that arise when there are conflicts of beliefs and values, and ethics.

Both the lake and Narcissus valued themselves more than each other or the things around them, surrounded them. They admire their beauty, looks, being completely ignorant towards anything in front of them. The alchemist valued reading, he valued books and the meaning behind the words of which the book held. This is the reason for why he even picked up the book and began reading it in the first place.

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Culture raises the question of how a text relates to the context of its creation and interpretation, and to the respective values, beliefs and attitudes dominant in them. This concept also plays an important role with regards to the relationship between an individual text and the previous writing tradition/trend. In both senses, the application of this concept to the study of a text should prompt reflection on the extent to which it is the product of a particular cultural and literary context
and how it interacts with it.

Beliefs trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something.

I think culture and beliefs have a big effect on people. Like in the prologue the alchemist picks up a book and remembers a myth. The culture of the alchemist is that he has heard the story of the myth. If he was a part of a different culture or believed in something else, he might not have heard the story. Because of his culture he was able to remember the myth and was able to remember that it has a different ending.

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Perspective: A text may offer multiple perspectives which may, or may not, reflect the views of its author. Readers have also their own perspectives which they bring to their interaction with the text. The fact that there are a variety of perspectives impacts the interpretation of a text and therefore deserves critical attention and discussion.

I chose this global issue because in the prologue you can really see the two perspectives of the story, it shows how Narcissus was viewing his beauty. Once he fell in the story comes to the conclusion that the lake hadn't even recognized Narcissus because it was looking at its own reflection as well. The two perspectives of the prologue set the theme for the story.

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When reading texts, students will encounter and interact with multipleperspectives, voices and characters. It is usual when reading and interpreting a text to assume that the views are to some extent representative of the writer’s identity. However, the relationship between an author and the different perspectives and voices they portrayin the texts is frequently complex, and this makes the concept of identityimprecise. Conversely, the ways in which the identity of a reader comes into play at the moment of reading a text are equally central to the analysis of the act of reading and interpretation. 

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Values the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. This showed that Narcissus only saw the importance in himself. Identity the fact of being who or what a person thing is. In the story Santiago goes of to follow is personal legend.  To know or better understand what you are meant to do.

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Community: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. I say community because in the world we are now everyone has their own community but won’t respect each other’s differences and ignore their differences and what they love. The lake in the prologue disregarded narcissus beauty for their own. The goddesses came down and asked why she didn’t appreciate his looks and the lake said because they saw their own beauty in the reflection of his eyes. Community’s in the world are being destroyed because of what they believe in and other communities are claiming their better and deserve to tell others what to believe because their ideas are “superior.”

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Identity and beliefs of the person or individual. Who they are and what their thoughts are and what character they have. Both the lake and the narcissist only observe their own identity and don't realize the other's presence. They are more focused on their own beauty than anyone else's because that's how their personalties are and the way they think and see the world.

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Identity-  The fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Identity is a global issue connected to the prologue because the narcissist and the lake itself didn't even realize each others presence. When the narcissist died the lake mourned the narcissist, but because the lake could see it's own reflection in the narcissist's eyes.

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Beliefs and values- focus on the ways in which text explore beliefs and values nurtured in particular societies and the ways they shape individuals and communities. In the prologue, the alchemist picks up a book left by a passenger in the caravan in which he briefly comes up in the story of Narcissus. The beliefs and values of this story of Narcissus in the prologue go to show that the river was the form that Narcissus used and that shaped him into being someone that knows how to appreciate ones beauty. When he drowned, the river wept for the loss of whom the river was able to admire its own beauty. These values help shape the way we view ourselves because many times we aren't aware of who we are and what our worth is, through the eyes of others we are able to experience that moment or realization of our true beauty. The alchemist was able to understand that and therefore thought of it as a lovely story.

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Perspective Is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. In the Alchemist, the Lake was only looking at it from his perspective and therefore was being selfish and only acknowledging his own beauty vise versa.

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Value -  the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something . I believe the global issue is value . Narcissist only see's himself , he see's his own beauty and his own value . And the exact same situation , the lake see's itself the same way as Narcissist do . They dont see each other beauty , and they dont appreciate what they have and what they value together .

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Identity - With the different ending of the story of Narcissus, we see that instead of a flower being born, the lake becomes salty from it's tears, for it cannot ever see its beauty from Narcissus's eyes. By looking into Narcissus's eyes, the lake was able to know it's own worth, and truly appreciated who it was.

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Global Issue: Identity-   the distinguishing character or personality of an individual . This global issue is what the prologue in my opinion, is really all about. For context, in the prologue The Alchemist beings telling the story of Narcissus and The River. In the story when Narcissus passes away; the River does not mourn his death because of his good looks, they instead mourn for the only way they used to look at their reflection. The story is very ironic because although they saw each other everyday neither of them understood how valuable to each other they were; not until Narcissus died. They valued each others identity.

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I believe the the perspective and Identity concept can really connect to the prologue nicely. I say this because both the Goddess's of the forest and the lake entities looked only at their reflection through Narcissus's perspective and could see their reflection and their beauty, but not Narcissus's. Because of this, I have chosen the Imagination and Creativity Global Problems. I chose these because the prologue is about the inspiration of Narcissus and the beauty he reflects, not by looks, but by the beauty/inspiration he gives. No one knew how he looked, but

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environment -the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity. perspective -a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.  My choice for global issue is the environment and perspective  because it sets place at a river where a boy drowned because of how much he liked to look at himself. It is perspective because from the rivers eyes he didn't know the boy was beautiful he just liked looking and himself and vise versa.

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I think the issue is of identity meaning the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. In the prologue, the narcissist and the lake don't realize each other presence and can only see their own beauty in each other eyes. The lake doesn't see the narcissist's beauty, but only it's own and doesn't realize until the goddess tells it.

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identity-the fact of being who or what a person or thing is, this relates with the prologue because the narcissist was only caring for his identity

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Identity:  the distinguishing character or personality of an individual.
I believe the global issue connected to the prologue is identity because as it states, the lake was weeping for Narcissus since the lake should see the reflection of beauty. When it comes to identity, knowing your worth is important as thats who you are.

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Choose a global issue that relates to the Prologue in The Alchemist. Look up the definition for your global issue and paste that definition here. Then, discuss how your global issue connects to the Prologue.