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similarities. Their stories take place in different time periods and they have dramatically different experiences and backgrounds, but they still relate to each other. One example of this is Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote. The Great Gatsby is set in the United States during the 1920s, while Don Quixote was written in 1605 in Spain. The two main characters of these stories, Jay Gatsby and Don Quixote, have very similar and different attributes

Unlike with Woody, it is unclear exactly when Sancho realizes that Don Quixote is living in a fantasy world. As he is sometimes caught up in the fantasy himself, Sancho must be aware of Don Quixote's madness, particularly since he uses it to outwit him. In chapter twenty, Don Quixote declares his courage and fearlessness after hearing the sound of rushing water, to which Sancho claims that he cannot simply go around the noise and unnecessary danger and pleads with him to consider his life and the

In “Chango’s Fire” Ernesto Quinonez shows Julio’s battle between his Pentecostal faith and Santeria, all the while addressing gentrification in the Puerto Rican community. Julio’s journey from his Pentecostal upbringing to Santeria illustrations through Julio’s eyes what his religion meant to him growing up and what made him decide to stop indulging in said religion. When Julio began setting fires he became a part of the problem with gentrification and it was his belief in Santeria that allowed him

Lazarillo de Tormes is a famous work of Spanish literature published anonymously. The novel is written in the first person. Lazarillo de Tormes is known as a picaresque novel in that the novel is written about a character of the lower-class instead of a hero or upper-class character. The novel has several themes but the theme that is constant throughout the novel is appearance versus reality. The author utilizes several rhetorical devices in the novel which add emphasis to the story. The novel, which

Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, explores Captain Amasa Delano’s journey into what he thinks is helping another captain and his ship’s troubles. Melville does a good job of portraying his characters the way he wants them through many writing skills: diction with connotation, imagery, metaphors, etc. Each character demonstrates different aspects that cause readers to be challenged by guessing their progress through motives and relationships. However, that’s exactly what the author wants. This

Don Quijote de La Mancha: Idealism in Real Life Alonso Quijana is an average man whose idealist delusions transform him into a knight, Don Quijote, combating fictional danger with fictional power in a much more realist world than he realizes. There are many idealists in this world and in history. One man with idealist views in history was Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. During World War 1, his idealist views became prevalent in his attempts to regain world peace. They compare

The novel Benito Cereno was written by Herman Melville in 1856. In the story, the narrator Captain Delano decides to board the San Dominick ship with his men. He is greeted by the slaves, the white sailors and Don Benito. The captain is unable to see that the ship has been taken over by the slaves. In fact, the antagonist Babo is the main person in charge of the whole trip. In the end, the protagonist Don Benito dies to what we conclude is post-traumatic stress disorder because of the events that

Introduction: How’d He Do That? Mastering literature is an art that can only be perfected with lots of practice and understanding memory, symbol, and pattern; this only enhances the reading and provokes the reader to analyze the text in a more productive way. Once you become a more avid reader you will be privileged to make comparisons, connections, and your own conclusion from the literary work you’re reading with certain aspects of many different literary works you’ve read along the way. Not only

unable to move, any questions regarding our noble knight’s sanity are laid to rest. Thus ends the first adventure and first five chapters of the novel, in which Quixotes’ ridiculousness is clearly Cervantes’ literary tool to mock chivalric romances. However, in the later chapters of the novel Cervantes expands Quixote’s depth by highlighting his one admirable trait; his faith. Quixote is foolish, but he is also so convinced of his valiant knight-errantry that he actually turns victorious on several

lines to highlight the paradoxical nature of men, Cervantes effectively uses Sancho Panza, a poor yet rational farmer, to serve as a foil that accentuates the insanity of his master. For instance, when Quixote claimed that windmills were “so accursed a breed” (13-14) of giants that must be conquered, Sancho demonstrated his rationality by asking “what giants” (15). Despite certain similarities in themes and techniques, Alexander Pope differs from Cervantes in that he places emphasis on the positive “half”