Give two examples of how foreboding is used as the caravan travels through the desert in The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.

In Paulo Coelho's novel, The
Alchemist, href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foreboding">foreboding appears
with regard to the caravan in which the boy travels.

First,
Dictionary.com defines "foreboding"
as:

1. a prediction;
portent. 2. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil,
etc.;

Before the
boy and the Englishman even leave with the caravan, the tone of danger is created with
the following:

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I'm the leader of the caravan," said a dark-eyed,
bearded man. I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The
desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men
crazy.

Right away, the sense
of one's tenuous grasp on life in the desert is presented, along with the fact that this
man has control over life and death.

The leader also
admonishes the group:

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...swear by the God you believe in that you will
follow my orders no matter what. In the desert, disobedience means
death.

These two passages
present the reader with the sense that the desert is a dangerous, unpredictable place.
One evening a camel driver comes to sit with the Englishman and the boy, and
warns:

There
are rumors of tribal wars...Once you get into the desert, there's no going back..you
have to worry only about the best way of moving
forward.

Later...

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The hooded Bedouins reappeared more and more
frequently, and the camel driver—who had become a good friend of the boy's—explained
that the war between the tribes had already begun. The caravan would be very lucky to
reach the oasis.

These two
passages warn of the dangers of tribal wars; the second passage again refers to the
mysterious Bedouins who quietly travel and provide "warnings about thieves and barbarian
tribes." Their presence indicates a real danger moving throughout the
desert.

When the boy sees the hawks flying over the oasis,
and one attacks the other, this, too, brings a sense of foreboding, and also a
premonition that the oasis is going to be attacked.

All of
these examples of foreboding culminate in the attack of the oasis by an army, even
though the oasis is supposed to be a neutral territory.

The
idea of looking for examples of foreboding during the journey with the caravan is very
similar to the boy's search for meaning in all things he witnesses, even while he
travels with the caravan.