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

Read the excerpt from pat mora’s essay "the leader in the mirror." i hoped that most of the students were going to enroll in college. the confetti would be for their private celebrations, those solitary moments when they had passed a test that worried them, finished a difficult paper at 2 a. m., found a summer internship. sometimes, even when no one else is around, it’s important to celebrate when we have struggled and succeeded—to sprinkle a little confetti on our own heads. what is the author’s purpose in using confetti as a symbol? the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to encourage her audience to celebrate success. the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to teach the students how to plan a celebration party. the confetti is a symbol of college graduation. the author uses the symbol to reward college graduates. the confetti is a symbol of summer internships. the author uses the symbol to encourage signing up for summer internships.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?

Which statement correctly analyzes this passage in terms of its historical context? marrige is a private affair