The Alchemist: Imagery

The author uses imagery in his novel because it would be fairly hard to describe how Santiago "hears" some inanimate things tell him what to do. For example, he sometimes tries to listen to his heart, and then his heart actually talks to him. This happens many times throughout the story. The things that do it are his heart, the desert, the wind, the sun, and the Soul of the World.
It would be challenging to try to tell the reader how Santiago can use signs to get messages from those inanimate things. So the author uses personifacation to make it easier for him to tell the reader about the signs that Santiago is getting from those inanimate things that tell him what to do and/or how to do it.

I like The Alchemist so far. It isn't the book with the most attention grabbing introduction, but it is kind of intriguing. It's not that hard to get into, but I'm still wondering why it's called The Alchemist.
I'm not sure what the most dominant literary element in my book is because it has mostly just been talking and explaining about how he came to be a shepard.
So far, the only literary element has been "scared to death." and such. So that isn't that much of a literary element since it's just a maxim, but this book is about this kid's journey as a shepard, so there might not be many literary elements in it.
The tone is kind of somber because he talks about how his father wanted him to be a priest, but he ended up wanting to travel around and see new places, and the only way to travel that his family could afford to fund was being a traveling shepard.