don quixote

• Don Quixote

  The valorous knight
• Windmills

  Enormous giants that Don Quixote intends to battle
• Don Quixote sees the windmills

  He charges at them, thinking they are giants
• Don Quixote's lance breaks when he thrusts it into the sail of the windmill</b>
• Don Quixote is convinced the windmills are giants


  He believes the wizard Frestón has turned them into windmills to deprive him of glory
• Don Quixote remounts his horse Rocinante, whose back is almost broken
• Diego Perez de Vargas


  A Spanish knight who broke his sword in battle, then used a heavy bough from an oak tree to defeat many Moors, earning the name "Machuca, the Bruiser"
• Don Quixote intends


  To tear off a branch from the first oak he sees, and use it to perform great deeds
• Sancho Panza sleeps through the night, while Don Quixote thinks of his lady Dulcinea
• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza continue on the road to Puerto Lápice
• Puerto Lápice


  An entrance to the mountains of the Sierra Morena, between La Mancha and Andalucía, where Don Quixote expects to find many adventures
• Don Quixote warns Sancho not to help him against gentlemen, only against baseborn rabble, as per the laws of chivalry
• Don Quixote sees Benedictine friars and a carriage, and believes the friars have captured a princess
• Sancho warns Don Quixote


  That the friars and carriage are not enchanters, but just travelers
• Don Quixote insists that the friars must be enchanters who have captured a princess
• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were traveling and came across a carriage accompanied by friars and other travelers
• Don Quixote mistook the friars for enchanters who had captured a princess in the carriage
• Don Quixote confronted the friars

  The friars tried to explain they were just traveling religious men
• Don Quixote attacked the first friar, causing him to fall off his mule
• The second friar fled across the fields faster than the wind
• Sancho tried to strip the fallen friar, but was attacked and beaten by the friar's servants
• Don Quixote then spoke to the lady in the carriage, saying he had freed her from her captors
• A Basque squire accompanying the carriage confronted Don Quixote and they began to fight with swords
• The fight between Don Quixote and the Basque squire was left unfinished as the author claimed he could find no more written about it
• The author stated he would reveal the conclusion to the fight in the second part of the story