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said, because during that moment when we were in the Aleph, I saw that your eyes were full of a
mixture of love and indifference, and your head was covered by a hood. I felt betrayed and humiliated.
But I’m not interests in what our relationship was in a past life. We’re here in the present.” Paulo
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3.3 Climax
Hilal can remember what the truth story in her past life. She remembers that she is a person who did heretics and she gets a punishment. In that time, she
remembers that she asks Paulo to help her from the torture after she confesses her fault but he can’t help her even he has a capacity to help her. She says that she
loves him when she is in the session, she has done the heretics to imagination about Paulo but he does not help her. She feels disappointed with Paulo, he says
that he loves her so much but he never tries to help her. Paulo has made big mistake, Hilal is so hard to apologize him. She is so
angry with Paulo after remembering the truth of their past life. She does not suppose that Paulo has done it to her. She cannot do anything, it happens, she
wants to know Paulo’s reasons, why he lets her to get the punishment whereas it is because of her love with him.
Paulo tries to make Hilal calm down, but he cannot. Hilal brings an arm, she intimidates Paulo. She will kill him if he doesn’t explain his reason why he
does not save her from the punishment. Paulo tells the reason and he hopes Hilal continues her journey with him because he knows that Hilal is the answer of the
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that Hilal is the person who has not forgiven him yet and he must get her apologizing to make the future better.
“I confess to having committed all the sins in the world. I confess to having dreamed of men coming
to my bed and giving me intimate kisses. One of those men was you, and I confess that, in my
dreams, I tempted you” Paulo Coelho, 2011: p.205
When Paulo tells the reason, accidently he says about his wife. Paulo talks to Hilal that they still can continue their relation although he has a wife. Hilal
can’t agree with Paulo because she doesn’t want to let the man that she loves, live with other women. She was angry and she tries to kill herself by jumping from the
high, but Paulo prevents it. She feels that there is no benefit if she is still alive. She loves Paulo so much, she doesn’t want to let him go but it is impossible. Hilal
is so angry and ask Paulo to back to his wife. Paulo can’t control his emotion. He doesn’t like if Hilal says about his
wife. He snaps Hilal, he thinks that Hilal doesn’t have the right to tell about his wife. Hilal is not be calm down, she is instead getting angry, she picks up a heavy
metal lamp to Paulo and blood spurts in all directions. “Go back to your wife”
“Hilal picks up a heavy metal lamp, rips the plug out of the wall, and hurls the lamp in my direction. I
manage to catch it before it hits my face, but now she’s slapping me as hard as she can. I drop the
lamp and try to grab her arms, but fail. A fist hits my nose, and blood spurts in all directions.” Paulo
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3.4 Falling Action
