Don Quixote of
La Mancha:
Dear friends,
for this project we’ve chosen a very special story. It’s not a tale itself, but
in our country it’s so well known that everybody can tell it and it became one
of our most popular stories.
It was
originally written by Miguel de Cervantes in 17th. century. This incredibly fun novel tells the story of
a man who becomes so crazy about reading knight books that finally he decides
to be a knight himself.
The problem is
that he lives in La Mancha, a very plain and huge region in central Spain. So
he doesn’t have dragons, evils or giants to fight or princesses to save.
Nobody seems to
understand him, but he is so brave that he lives a lot of incredible
adventures.
The adventure
with the windmills:
One morning, Don
Quixote was crossing a typical La Mancha landscape with his helper Sancho. The
knight was wearing his armour . He rode
his thin horse Rocinante while Sancho rode a donkey.
Everything was
plane around them; no trees, no hills, no houses…Just a few windmills on a hill.
Don Quixote
said: “We are very lucky, Sancho. Adventure came to us again. We have to fight
these giants!”
Sancho replied
“What giants do you mean, my sir?”
“Are you blind?
These horrible ones on the top of the hill!”, said Don Quixote.
“Oh, my sir”
tried to explain Sancho “what you call giants are only windmills!”
“Can’t you see
them moving their arms?”
“Oh, sir! What
you call arms are the windmill’s blades!”
Don Quijote
started to get angry with poor Sancho. “I think you are a coward. If you are
afraid of the giants, just say your prayers. I will fight alone against all the
giants!”
Don Quixote
prepared his weapons and ran directly to the windmills.
“Now you will
know the power of my sword!” He cried out.
But when he
reached the windmills he crashed into them. He felt down and laid on the floor
seriously ill.
Sancho came to
his side as fast as he could.
“Can’t you see,
my poor sir, they are not giants at all! Only windmills!”
Don Quixote
replied from the floor:
“Dear Sancho.
They were giants, but my greatest enemy, Frestón the magician, turned them into
windmills”.
Sancho helped
his master and together again they followed the way to their new adventure.
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