However, if you ask him or her if they have fully read the book, well, not everyone would say yes.Alonso Quijano is a Hidalgo, a low ranking Spanish person of nobility.Alonso finds some old armor and prepares an old horse from the stable which he names Rocinante.The knight decides he needs to have a maiden, so, in his imagination he converts a young villager named Aldonza Lorenzo, who he was once in love with, into the lovely Lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
So, the new knight sets off on an adventure with a ridiculous new costume and the hope of committing heroic deeds. However, it will not take long for misunderstandings to occur between the real world and the fantasy world of Don Quixote. In one scene, Don Quixote arrives to an inn, which he believes to be a castle, and demands that the innkeeper dub him the noble title of knight. Next, Don Quixote is insulted by some merchants who he promptly attacks. The merchants give Don Quixote a brutal beating and leave him on the side of the road where he is found by a peasant and delivered home. Don Quixote convinces his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to be his squire by promising him riches, fame and the governorship of an island. Sancho, unlike Don Quixote, is a practical albeit ignorant man. Little by little he is seduced by the wild dreams of his new master. The duo quickly come upon large windmills which Don Quixote believes to be ferocious giants and thus attacks. The pair continues on to live many other exciting adventures when Don Quixote attacks a flock of sheep believing it to be an army, when his horse Rocinante pursues some mares, when he has a sword duel with a Biscayan, frees some inmates that then attack him, finds a barber basin which he believes to be a magical helmet and many other comical situations that occur in an inn. His two best friends, a priest and a barber, are forced to trick him into a cage in order to bring him back to his settlement. Throughout their adventures, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote will encounter a wide range of diverse characters including innkeepers, pirate prisoners, prostitutes, goatherds, soldiers, priests, escaped convicts and scorned lovers. In the course of their travels, the protagonists meet innkeepers, prostitutes, goatherds, soldiers, priests, escaped convicts and scorned lovers.
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