understanding the language of the world What does he mean by the lanuage of the world and by the quote "Courage is the quality most essential to...

In
, the language of the world refers to the oneness of
all things: that the universe is tied together. During the 1960s this idea
came into prominence with the belief that the damage we did to the world would damage those
living in it, which has been proven with studies about pollution, etc. This is not a new
concept: writers in England and the United States responded in the same way with the advent of
the Industrial Revolution and its damaging effects to the environment many
years ago.

Because we are all connected, according to Coelho, we are not only
made of the same "stuff," but we can communicate with nature if,
as Santiago tells the Englishman, we "listen" to nature speaking to us. In this
regard, we should also, then, be able to speak to one another regardless of where we come from,
which Santiago discovers in being able to understand people who do not speak his
"native" language.

Based on this assumption, Santiago tells the
Englishman that by speaking the language of the world, nature will help us as we move
about the worldin their case, by allowing them to successfully navigate the
desert with the caravan. The universal language is something that, as seen in the book, is
something that many people know about (like the gypsy, the alchemis, the King of Salem,etc.),
but others (like the Englishman) do not. Believers feel the language links people to the world
and to each other. This is my "take" on the language of the
world.