Thursday, 25 June 2015

Give two examples of how foreboding is used as the caravan travels through the desert in The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.

In 's
novel, , href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/foreboding"
title="foreboding">foreboding appears with regard to the caravan in which
the boy travels.

First, Dictionary.com defines "foreboding"
as:

1. a prediction; portent. 2. a strong
inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.;

Before
the boy and the Englishman even leave with the caravan, the tone of danger is created with the
following:

I'm the leader of the caravan," said a
dark-eyed, bearded man. I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The
desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.


Right away, the sense of one's tenuous grasp on life in the desert is presented, along
with the fact that this man has control over life and death.

The leader also
admonishes...

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