[completed]
Spoiler free review
If you are interested in fictional adventure books then you can give this one try. It is really small one around 150 pages and pace is also good. I got bored in between but it was a good read I would say that. It took me about 12 hours or so to complete maybe more or less, read between May 25 and May 26 2024.
Spoiler
I think it's more about the journey then the actual result you get at the end.
As per my interpretation, why the boy was laughing because he traveled through the desert only to found that there was no gold but the other person who had a dream of gold in the church had been not followed his own personal legend and instead give that clue to boy and it was the irony.
I think there can be many emotions at the end, he could be also thinking about Maktub (It is written).
One thing I liked is that boy didn't gave up even after he got robbed in the entire new continent and had left with no money. Author showed emotions and negativity of boy thinking he should give up but the nature all along led him to his own personal legend
and some bit of alchemist's advice like there is only one way to learn it's through action