Don Quixote
The novel opens by briefly describing Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his "wits gone", Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some old armor and professes his love and service to Aldonsa Lorenzo whom he refers to as Dulcinea Del Toboso. After a long hot ride on his horse he comes upon an inn which he thinks is a castle and the innkeeper whom he believes to be the king. That evening Don begs the innkeeper to knight him and the innkeeper agrees to do so as self amusement. He tells Don that he must return to his village for money, clean shirts and other provisions. Don agrees but before he is knighted, he beats up two carriers who were attempting water their mules at the trough where Don has stowed his armor. This was such a commotion at the inn, that the deeper quickly smacks Don on the neck and he is knighted and sent back to his village. On the way back he encounters two adventures; a farmer whipping his servant and the other six merchants, from Toledo who refuse to agrees that Dulcinea is the fairest maiden in the world. Don then attacks them and serves a beating for his tro
After Don destroys a room full of wine skins during a nightmare, the landlord demands restitution. A party of masked people ride up to the Inn. The leader is Don Fernando, who Dorothea recognizes and persuades him to return Lucinda to Cardenio. After a long discussion, the right man and woman are paired off, Cardenio and Fernando reconcile their differences. A cannon does his best to pursuade Don to abandon his knight-errant ways. While out of his cage for lunch, Don confirms his madness by attacking a religious procession. He is knocked off Rocinante by a peasant and ends up in his cage again, sadder but not wiser. They arrive at the village and Sancho and his wife are reunited, she is more concerned with the ass, than Sancho. Quixote is attended to by his niece and housekeeper who take him home. For the third and last time Quixote sets out where he supposedly has his most glorious and final battle. Details of his death are sketchy but his tale is passed on in Castilean verse which is detailed in his many achievements. The noble Rocinante is described along with the devoted Sancho Panza.
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Approximate Word count = 1537
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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