PART TWO Summary (continued)

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Summary

The leader of the caravan tells the group of people he is taking into the desert that he holds the power of life and death for every one of them. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. For this reason, they each must swear by whatever god they worship that they will follow his orders to the letter. In the desert, disobedience means death. The Englishman tries to continue his comments about the fact that nothing is coincidental, but in the confusion, the boy is unable to hear him. However, he.......

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This section elaborates on the idea that we are connected through the Soul of the World: the people in the caravan depend on its leader to see them safely through the desert as well as the desert itself which will determine if it's their time to make to it to the oasis; Santiago's sheep now depend on a new shepherd; the merchant's daughter has no doubt........

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Even though Santiago has trouble understanding the Englishman's books, he does comprehend one important repetitive idea: all things are the manifestation of one thing only. He also discovers that the most important book in the literature of alchemy was only a........ f

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The key to this section is the single line - The boy was becoming more and more convinced that alchemy could be learned in one's daily life. The idea of the Master Work that is both liquid and solid and can cure illnesses, keep one perpetually young, or.......

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