I, Juan de Pareja

When does Juan get a premonition of bad things to come?

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The reality of Juan's situation is made clear to him in Chapter Two by the magistrate's behavior. He is simply a possession, like Dosa Emilia's books and tables. Now that she is dead, he will be transported like a stick of wood. Juan has hardly felt the yoke of slavery until this point in his life, because his owners have been kind, if sometimes impetuous. Juan may also accept his enslavement as God's will. He experiences true cruelty for the first time at the magistrate's hands. This foreshadows the privations of the journey to come.

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I, Juan de Pareja