Beginning The Alchemist - Liying Wang

The king of Salem says that the world's greatest lie is that at a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us and we're controlled by fate (20). Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
1.Alchemist is one who versed in the practice of alchemy and who transforms or creates something through a seemingly magical process.
2. The significance of Santiago's journey is to enjoy every moments on the road  while he's traveling and learned something from it. Because  the way he traveled from Spain to Egypt shows that the journey wasn't that easy and looks like a challenge for him, and he took it difficulty by experienced a new life in order to grow up and to be independent.
3. These sample shifts in perspective are trying to explain the  main character, the young man Santiago, is realizing that the world isn't as small as what he have seen and there are many thing he haven't known yet. But now, through the journey he gave up his stereotype thinking and started to accept new stuff. More importantly, that's telling readers that he is more like what he's doing in the story now and looking forward to it.
4. The novel is open with a myth is because the author wants the readers have a first impression of how important those sheep to Santiago. They were go through some difficult time together, and I think that's going to connect and impact how the story is going in the end.
5. I do agree with him.I have heard that a lot of times which is people can't change their own fate because that's inevitable. What's inevitable?  If we stay there and doing nothing to make a change then things just go on the way it should be, I think that's what inevitable is. However, that doesn't we can't control our life, if we are not fight to it.