In
Coelho's , at first Santiago believes that his sheep do not consider
anything beyond eating and sleeping. He believes that they have no way of understanding that
life might have a deeper purpose: after all, they are only animals. However, this is, in many
ways, the way Santiago has livedhow most people live. He has had dreams but
for some time, he has never acted on them. When he finally decides to set off and sees that
there is more to life than working each day in a long progression of repetitious
behaviorsthrough an seemingly meaningless lifethat Santiago learns that there is purpose in life
if one will only be willing to search it out.
There
is
title="foreshadowing">foreshadowing in the first few pages to indicate
that this may not always be the case:
He...
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