Original Paragraph:
"Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and to kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is noble, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil face wiped from the face of the earth."
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Don Quijote is explaining to Sancho Panza that he is going to fight these evil giants, but he misses the fact that they are, in truth wind mills. Don Quijote is a very crazy man who has read so many fiction books that he can not tell reality from fiction anymore. This is a real problem, because his squire, Sancho Panza, is perfectly normal and he's always trying to set Don Quijote straight. In the next part of the story he tries to convince him that these humungous giants are not giants, they're windmills. But with no such luck he gives up.
1 comment:
Good explanation of the passage, Katie. You've been at these for quite awhile, and your writing is always good. I'd like you to push into something you don't often do. I'd like you to try embedding the quotes in surrounding commentary. Take a look at Grant's DQ post to see what I mean -- just look at it for the way he has attempted embedding his quote. Learning to smoothly move in and out of quoted material will serve you well in college writing. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me!
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