What about you is a response to a question that asked for a responds from you, turning the question around to the other person to answer it as well. and what’s about you is a weird term but “what is about you” would most likely be similar to “tell me about yourself. yeah?
In the characters actions or instead of the idea of their magical actions, you can find the theme, or lesson when a certain problem is solved or unsolved.
Real life events. This is because the Alchemist is a novel, and thus a work of fiction. Since it is fiction, it means it cannot have any real life events in the story.
By using the words "morcilla-pig's intestine", Sotomayor brings the audience's attention to the uniqueness of her culture.