The Alchemist

What religious symbols and references have we seen between pages 11 and 32? What do you believe their significance to be?
The religious symbols in pages 11 to 32 were small and managed to hold there large meaning and still be so subtle to when reading. When Santiago goes to the gypsy lady to get his dream read he becomes very nervous, to calm his nervousness he resits "our father" the prayer. This important because it shows his faith in god and that they will protect him. The after he tells his dream the the gypsy tells him that she wont charge him but, he has to give one tenth of the treasure to her. she then makes him swear to the picture of Jesus that he will. this is religious but weird because Gypsys are more earth lovers than religious. The gypsy has a religious symbol and believes that it will hold the boy to his word.