Which statement best explains coelho’s choice in the alchemist to have the boy work for the crystal merchant?
a. it demonstrates that the path to one’s personal legend is not a straight it obvious one.
b. it shows the reader what happens when one follows his or her personal legend.
c. it provides the reader with engaging details about the city of tangier.
d. it explains how the boy earns enough money to marry the merchants daughter.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret