Don Quixote Satire Analysis
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Don Quixote Satire Analysis
The Knight and the Windmills
This is an original retelling of a famous comic episode. Don Quixote rode across a dry plain with his companion, Sancho. In the distance stood a row of windmills, their long wooden arms turning in the wind. “Look!” cried Don Quixote. “A whole army of giants is waving its arms at us. I will defeat every one!” Sancho shaded his eyes. “Those are windmills, sir. The wind turns their arms.” But Don Quixote charged forward. He aimed his lance at the nearest windmill. A gust caught one of its arms and spun it around. The arm knocked the lance aside and lifted Don Quixote off his horse. He landed in a heap on the ground. Sancho hurried over. “Are you hurt?” “Not badly,” said Don Quixote, climbing up. “A wicked magician must have changed the giants into windmills just as I was about to win!” Sancho helped him back onto his horse. The windmills kept turning, as ordinary windmills do. Don Quixote rode on, certain that he had faced a powerful enemy.
Read Closely
Use evidence from the scene in your answers.
- It uses humor or exaggeration to make readers notice an idea or flaw.
- It gives step-by-step directions for completing a task.
- It tells only facts and avoids sharing any point of view.
- It is a poem that must rhyme.
- Sancho says the wind turns the windmill arms.
- Sancho rides across a dry plain.
- Sancho helps Don Quixote onto his horse.
- Sancho shades his eyes.
- He is willing to admit that Sancho was right.
- He makes an excuse so he can keep believing his own version of events.
- He knows that the windmill is dangerous machinery.
- He has decided to stop being a knight.
- People can get into trouble when they mistake what they imagine for what is real.
- Windmills should never be built near roads.
- A companion should always ride a faster horse.
- A knight can defeat every enemy with a lance.
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