Don Quijote de la Mancha

Lara's cousin wants to run toward windmills on a road in La Mancha because the sails look like arms. Lara wants him to stay on the path, so she tells a story. Alonso Quijano is a gentleman with little money who reads many books about knights. In the story those books drive him mad. He changes his name to Don Quixote and rides out through the fields and villages of La Mancha on a thin horse named Rocinante. Miguel de Cervantes writes this in Don Quixote de la Mancha. The first part comes out in 1605, and the second ten years later, in 1615. The cousin wants giants, not dates. Sancho Panza, a fat farmer, goes with the knight on a donkey and sees things as they are. Don Quixote sees windmills and believes they are evil giants. Sancho tells him not to attack, because they are mills. He attacks anyway. A sail throws him and the horse to the ground. He gets up. He says he fights for a lady, Dulcinea del Toboso, who is not on the road with him. He carries her in his head and goes on. The cousin says he will not fight. He wants to walk closer and see how a sail can throw a person. Lara gives him her hand and says nothing more.