Essay “Don Quixote of la Mancha”

Essay “Don Quixote of la Mancha”

Don Quixote of la Mancha is a 50-year-old man, with a serious face, who was in extreme thinness, his real name was Alonso Quijada, who was addicted to cavalry novels, he felt like a knight, who made himself wear armor, One day he woke up and realized that he needed a squire and when he went out into the street, a farmer called Sancho Panza passed by, Don Quixote spoke to him about going to conquer the world, to go and save his princess Dulcinea. Aldonza Lorenzo was a peasant girl whom Don Quixote had seen a couple of times and she made herself beautiful, and she was the first woman he could think of to invent a motive for his inspiration, which he called Dulcinea del Toboso, but above all he spoke to her about a very great enemy called Feston, who said he was a charming sage.

Don Quixote promised Sancho Panza that if he followed him in his different adventures, he would give him some lands, and Sancho, because of the interest of the lands, decided to follow him in his multiple adventures as when Don Quixote found some windmills which he thought were giant and decided to fight with them and at that moment Don Quixote was very hurt because the supposed giants were windmills and when he wanted Don Quixote to fight with them, They flew him out and Sancho Panza supported him at that moment and said "I told him they were windmills, not giants", at that moment Sancho began to doubt Don Quixote's sanity but nevertheless continued to accompany him in the different adventures, not because of the interest of the lands but because they became friends, later I remember that Don Quixote met some priests and took a body to bury them, at that moment Sancho Panza decided to nickname Don Quixote; Don Quixote of la Mancha, "the knight of the sad figure" because he was very thin because they had not eaten very well because they were in the adventures, was when there began to be a friendlier relationship between them, which later originated that Sancho felt good for having supported Don Quixote in each of his adventures.

Some time later, Sancho Panza returned to his not rich homeland as he thought according to the promised lands, but he felt good for having supported Don Quixote and although he always gave him reasons to abandon him, because of his not so coherent thoughts, Sancho was still there with him, because he had become his true friend and he did not dare to abandon him, I think because he really became his friend and they managed to maintain a very good relationship of "Knight-Squireman", in my opinion this book is very interesting because it shows us the value of friendship and what I understand is that Sancho didn't really stay with Don Quixote for the promised lands, but because he adapted to it, to such a degree that he didn't want to leave it because he knew he had gone mad and didn't dare to leave it, it is the sample of a true friend.

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