Camel Driver In The Alchemist

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In the book The Alchemist, the camel driver experiences type 3A epistemology. On the way to the Al-Fayoum, Santiago had befriended a camel driver whom had traveled beside him throughout the expedition. During nightfall they would exchange stories about their own life. Santiago related to the driver his adventures as a shepherd. During one of the conversations, the driver told of his own life as a farmer, and how he had been successful in life as a follower of the Koran, father and farmer; however, an earthquake had caused the Nile to overflow its banks and destroyed the land, forcing the former farmer to become a camel driver. Instead of being scared, he learned from this, he says to the boy, “But that disaster taught me to understand the

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