Don Quixote

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beating for his troubles. A peasant passing by recognizes Quixote and loads him across his donkey. They head back to their village as Don wildly describes his mishaps. returns to his village where his met by his niece and housekeeper. While he is sleeping, his chivalric romance books are burned and the room is sealed off by well intentional friends and family. They believe that Don’s nonsense is caused by the devil’s work. Throughout the rest of the book, Friston is blamed for all the misconceptions. will experience. A knight-errant must have a squire, so he convinces his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to accompany him by promising to conquer an island and make him the governor. So after convincing him, they head out and come upon thirty or forty windmills which Don thinks are the Giants. Sancho is unable to convince him otherwise and quixote attacks them, experiencing a bad fall. He blames Friston for turning them into windmills. Continuing along the highway, ...

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procession. The priest takes off and leaves the corpse on the mule with provisions which Sancho eagerly takes. During that night they are frightened by a loud noise. In the morning they learn that is was harmless and Sancho begins laughing. Quixote is not amuse and smacks Sancho and he quickly shuts up. It starts to rain and Don sees a man with a helmet coming down the road. Thinking he is a rival knight, he attacks. He actually attacks the local barber who has put a basin on his head due to the rain. Quixote takes the basin as his own and wears it proudly. Farther down the road he meets a file of chained criminals on their way to the king’s galleys. The guards allow him ...

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