The first post on Don Quixote:
First I looked up what it meant to be quixotic. It means a person who is foolishly impractical especially when it comes to chivalry and romantic ideas. After reading the first part of this book I can say that this description fits Don Quixote to a tee. He seems to be completely insane.
I believe the first couple chapters of the book do the best job in showing his radical behavior. The first inclination of this is when he is described as staying up day and night to read books about journeys of knights and romantic tales. Obviously when a person doesn’t sleep for days at a time they can go crazy and hallucinate. This showed me that I was going to be reading about some wild character. This first impression became true when he went to the inn which he believed to be a castle. He mistook every person to be a person of higher status, and even believed that he himself was knighted. I think that these first few chapters showed us his true character and set us up for the next scenes to come. Like the scolding the woods man and attempting to hurt the group of people walking by. He has a mistaken sense of reality because he believes these people to be knights and people of higher reanking.
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