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The innkeeper advises Don Quixote that knights must travel with a few sets of clothing as well as a good amount of money.ĭon Quixote returns to La Mancha to get the necessary supplies, and on the way, he hears crying sounds from a bush. But when Quixote violently attacks one of the guests, the innkeeper hurriedly knights Don Quixote and sends him off. The innkeeper plays along with Quixote's imaginations and agrees to knight Don Quixote in the morning. The innkeeper and guests are frightened by Quixote, but they soon become amused. Quixote is crudely dressed as a warrior (with a helmet made of pasteboard). Upon reaching an inn, Quixote envisions that the inn is a castle, that two lingering prostitutes are beautiful damsels, and that a dwarf opens the drawbridge to the castle. Quixote sees her as a beautiful noble lady and so he calls her Dulcinea and vows to fight for her honor and glory. On the road, Don Quixote stumbles upon a very ordinary peasant woman. Neither his niece nor his housekeeper can persuade him from dressing his old horse and setting off to battle giants. As a result, he changes his name to Don Quixote and decides to become a knight-errant. "His imagination was full of all that he read in his books"stories of medieval knights, chivalry, and bloody battles. As the story begins, this man has lost his wits. There is an older gentleman (named Quixana or perhaps Quesada) and he lives in a Spanish village called La Mancha. In the end, however, his friend convinced him that these allusions will make the book larger and will convince the readers that Cervantes is a well-educated man. At first, Cervantes decided that his book would have few allusions to classical or medieval storiesas was the custom of the day. The author claims to be the "stepfather of Don Quixote" (as opposed to the father) because he is sharing an old story that was told to him long ago. Don Quixote begins with a preface by Cervantes.
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