Beginning The Alchemist

I think that part one ends the way that it does because the boy doesnt know what to do. He travels all this way with his sheep to sell wool, but along the way he meets a few people that tell him he needs to find his own fate. After a short amount of time of the boy trying to get to his fate in Egypt, he has already been tricked and robbed, and he had  to give away a tenth of his sheep. Feeling discouraged by all this, part one ends with him trying to earn money to get new sheep, showing he wants to go back to the life style he is accustomed to.

I expect that next the boy will try to buy more sheep and go back to his original life style, but as he tries to do this some obstacles stop him in his path. Something that tells him he cant just go back and that if he truly wants to know his personal legend that he needs o go after it. The good omens might lead him in the right direction.