Don LaFontaine

Don Quixote by Cervantes The story of Don Quixote is about an old man named Alonso Quijano, dismayed by the current state of his life who was so into chivalric novels that he became insane and decided that he was a vagrant knight. Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha" and decides to win eternal glory through the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code. Though framed in the narrative of the chivalrous stories that so transfixed Quixote. In many ways, Don

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda explores spiritual and philosophical awaking through the use of hallucinogenic plants (mainly peyote) to induce states of “nonordinary reality,” and ancient Yaqui knowledge. It is an anthropological memoir of the experiences of the author under the tutelage of the Yaqui Indian Sorcerer (brujo) don Juan Matus in Sonora, Mexico from 1960 to 1965. The book was written by Castaneda as his Master’s thesis in the school of anthropology

The reason I chose this passage is because the author, Herman Melville provides us an extensive amount of information about Benito Cereno, which helped me to picture how Cereno appears. Since Melville finally mentions about Cereno after 10 pages, I was interested in knowing how his name could become the title and how important he is. Melville uses fancier and more complicated words to make the passages sound literary instead of using simpler words. However, it makes me feel curious about Cereno more

Frankenstein. Making one almost feel pity for Frankenstein, when in reality Frankenstein deserves nothing less than what he receives. Mary Shelley has perfectly executed the purpose of the Monster as a foil, as Miguel Cervantes uses Sancho Panza for Don Quixote De La Mancha. Their are many likes, as their are differences between Frankenstein and the Monster. In creating the Monster Victor Frankenstein tried to portray the role of God, in which he inevitably wanted the Monster to

In White Noise, Don Delillo splits the story into three parts, beginning with “Waves and Radiation”. The protagonist of the narrative, Jack Gladney, expresses early on how he “invented Hitler studies in North America” (Delillo 4), preceded by his in-depth description of the student’s return to the College-on-the-Hill. Gladney shortly introduces his wife and his children, but soon introduces another character, Murray Jay Siskind. Television and conceptions are a common theme throughout the book, including

the Spanish Armada. He had a big impact on the Spanish speaking world. Some know the Spanish language as “la lengua de Cervantes” or the language of Cervantes. His most famous novel, Don Quixote, was said the be the first modern, romantic novel. He wrote many other novels that impacted the Spanish speaking world, but Don Quixote had the biggest impact. Not much about Miguel de Cervantes is known. His appearance is unknown and most of his childhood till 1569 about him is unknown. Though he had many

In the novel White Noise, the protagonist Jack Gladney copes with his fear of death very often, and frequently through power. The power Jack seeks is not completely obvious to his friends and family or in his personality, like wanting power over the world for example, but revolves more around power over his own death and his fear of it. Jack finds the idea of being remembered after death takes away from you actually dying, and believed that this is what Hitler did; and many other well-known people

Selena Quintanilla is a role model to many women within the Latinx community because she helped paved the way for women to be able to sing Tejano music and was able to continue warming the hearts of more individuals when she began producing music in Spanish. Selena grew up speaking English and later learned how to speak Spanish when she began her music career. Her father encouraged her to learn how to speak Spanish so that her music could be heard by those of the Latino community, and her hard

Don Quixote chose to be a knight errant to help others, to live an adventurous life and to achieve fame. Throughout the book Don Quixote has trouble adapting his vision to his environment and circumstances. He pretends the world is the same as the way it was described in the books of chivalry. Don Quixote seems completely insane; he fails to recognize people and objects compared to the books and real life. Don Quixote is a novel about how Don Quixote perceives the world. He transforms everyday objects

In chapter 15 of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Jack and Murray engage in a competitive conversation comparing their subjects: Elvis and Hitler. The friendship between Jack and Murray is a stimulating relationship that is consistently changing paths, but one thing that is constant between the two is their love and passion for their particular subject. The conversation that occurs in Murray’s classroom at the College-on-the-Hill starts as a civil, friendly chat between two friends about their individual