People usually go to pray, meditate, read, and spend time in silence to rest. When they return to the world of people, the busyness, the noise, the talk, and the daily tasks of life tire them out again. In the novel The Alchemist, the opposite is true. The time in the silent desert is a difficult, emotionally exhausting journey for the protagonist, and the oasis, the place with people and noise, represents safety and rest - an escape.

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peace420 · Answer

This is an example of ___.
 	
	parallelism
	situational irony
	dramatic irony
	direct characterization

icesysyfish · Answer

I think it's situational irony but I'm not sure ahh, but that choice stands out to me above all

maddielb · Answer

Hmm, I think its situational irony. " it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead"