Because of excessive exposure to the books, he loses his mind and decides he can become like one of the heroes in the books to save the helpless and rid the world of all impending evil. He keeps a stockpile of them and does nothing but reads them all day. ‘ Don Quixote‘ begins with Alonso’s obsession with books of valor and chivalry. Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. He must defeat the knight of the white moon or risk resignation from his chivalric adventures. Alonso loses lady Dulcinea and tries to get her back but is met with a stern test that threatens his knight-errantry. He and Sancho then enter another inn but brew trouble that leads to them leaving with injuries. He soon encounters a lady marching with friars and seeks to rescue her. Things quickly get feisty and his valor is tested in an epic, but comical, battle against the windmills only he mistakes them for giants. With eyes set on the quest, Alonso resumes his journey taking along Sancho, his squire. He is taken home to recuperate but while he’s at it, his niece arranges with a group of locals and destroys his library and the books in it.Īlonso is told a wizard is responsible when he finally comes to consciousness. Later, our protagonist soon gets the beating of his life after he accosts a team of traders and questions them for saying unpleasant things to his lady, Dulcinea. He realizes it’s getting late and he must pass the night at the inn, but Alonso can’t seem to stay out of trouble for too long that by the end of the night, he fights a group of drivers before leaving by the morning.Īs the journey continues, Alonso meets and rescues a young male applicant who appears to be getting some maltreatments from his lord. In the inn, he meets with all kinds of people including prostitutes and the innkeeper.
He begins his journey and arrives at a public inn but he prefers to think of this place like a castle. Influenced by the heroic deeds portrayed in countless chivalric books he has read, Alonso decides to become a hero himself and must set out to restore order to a world that, in his opinion, needs saving from the hands of evil entities and people who oppress the poor.Īll set for his journey, he changes his name to the more suitable ‘ Don Quixote‘, buys a horse, and selects a young farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, and a peasant young girl – who he calls Dulcinea – as his lady for the journey. ‘ Don Quixote‘ is a classic written by Miguel de Cervantes documenting the adventure of Alonso, a fifty-year-old and native of La Mancha, a suburb of Spain. The book is both tragic and comedic and follows the struggles of Alonso Quixano whose adventure goes to prove that sometimes setting and following your dreams, against society’s expectations, is the most worthwhile thing to do.
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