Santiago believes he has seen an omen in the desert. what has he seen, and what does he think it signifies?

Santiago sees a dream of an attacking armed force in the desert. Santiago trusts his vision means an up and coming assault on the desert garden.  

Santiago watches a couple of birds of prey assaulting one another and has a dream of armed forces riding through the desert garden. Santiago recollects Melchizedek's recommendation to regard signs, so he informs the camel driver concerning his vision. The camel driver considers Santiago's notice important in light of the fact that he trusts that all individuals can enter to the Soul of the World.  

The camel driver thinks about how diviners make their living by understanding the Soul of the World, and reviews when a soothsayer asked him for what reason he needed to know what's to come. The camel driver experienced difficulty thinking of a smart response, so the soothsayer would not cast the twigs he used to make his expectations.

Rather, he enlightened the camel driver to overlook concerning the future and focus on the present. The soothsayer disclosed to him that God will once in a while uncover the future to somebody, however just so it very well may be changed.  

Since the camel driver trusts that God demonstrated Santiago the future through his vision, he advises Santiago to caution the nearby innate chieftains of moving toward armed forces. Santiago questions the chieftains will consider him important, yet the camel driver clarifies that they bargain regularly with signs.  

The chieftains live in an immense white tent amidst the desert garden. Santiago visits and tells a gatekeeper that he saw a sign. The gatekeeper goes inside the tent and rises with a youthful Arab wearing white and gold. Santiago discloses his vision to the Arab, and the Arab requests that Santiago hold up as he returns into the tent.

Santiago holds up outside until sunset, when at long last the watchman welcomes Santiago inside. The chieftains sit at the back of the richly brightened tent on silk cushions, eating, smoking hookahs, and drinking tea. One of the chieftains asks Santiago for what reason the desert would address him, a newcomer to the desert. Santiago answers that, since he is new, he can see things those familiar with the desert may not. The chieftains contend in an Arabic tongue Santiago can't get it.  

The elderly person at the focal point of the chieftains, wearing white and gold, does not talk until the discussion closes. At that point he relates the tale of a man who had faith in dreams and was sold as a slave. The clan's vendors purchased the man and conveyed him to Egypt, since they felt that any individual who put stock in dreams could likewise decipher them. The man was Joseph, and he spared Egypt from starvation by deciphering the Pharaoh's fantasies. The elderly person says that the clan trusts in this convention, which implies they should consider messages from the desert important.  

After his discourse, the elderly person says he will lift the restriction on conveying weapons in the desert spring for one day, and that everybody ought to be vigilant for foes. He says he will compensate each man in the desert garden for each ten adversaries he slaughters, and if Santiago ends up being incorrectly, they will execute him

The camel driver thinks about how diviners make their living by understanding the Soul of the World, and reviews when a soothsayer asked him for what reason he needed to know what's to come. The camel driver experienced difficulty thinking of a smart response, so the soothsayer would not cast the twigs he used to make his expectations.

Rather, he enlightened the camel driver to overlook concerning the future and focus on the present. The soothsayer disclosed to him that God will once in a while uncover the future to somebody, however just so it very well may be changed.  

the price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.