Don Quixote's Arrest For The Holy Brotherhood

The author relates social policy to Don Quixote. Don Quixote was addicted to the idea of being a hero; the knight in shining armor who saves the day. In his quest to fulfill his dream, he unknowingly made decisions that caused more harm than good. But the intentions were always pure of heart. So with respect to the ideology of the story of Don Quixote, there are different organizations, and policies, which believe that the policies, studies, or actions being taken are for the greater good. In reality the majority of them have caused more harm than good.

What would you do think, if I told you that for the rest of your life you are going to live under discrimination by a race that is not yours, but it is not much different from you? Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement is a book that narrates exactly a social movement led by Mexicans Americans, living in San Antonio and nearby areas of the United Sates, exasperated of the segregation and discrimination situation they were living. Surely, every once in a while, you ever wondered how it would feel to travel in time. Undoubtedly you have to read David Montejano´s book, without mattering, if you are one

The book “Quixote’s Soldiers,” by David Montejano was written in clarity to describe and inform readers the injustice the Mexican Americans endured during the mid 1960s through the early 1980s in which they successfully battled for, “a new and more representative political order.” The following critique of “Quixote’s Soldiers,” includes how the Chicano Movement was introduced, the author's purpose and interpretations, and the overall successes and weaknesses of the book.

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures 

of Alonso Quixano, a retired elderly man who develops a fascination with chivalrous novels 

eventually become delusional, believing everything written to be true and currently going on in 

the Spanish country side where he lives (La Mancha). The novel itself contains a narration of 

Quixote’s adventures. These adventures are broken up into “Sally’s”. The first Sally feature 

Quixote’s first “quests”. After setting out early in the morning Quixote eventually wanders his 

way to an inn that he believes to be a castle, he asks the innkeeper who he believe to be a lord to 

dub him a knight. Have very little money Quixote’s spend the night in the stable with his horse, 

where he starts a fight with muleteers who are attempting to water their mules. Quixote’s take 

attempts to remove his gear from the trough as a threat and attacks the men. As a result the 

innkeeper tell Quixote’s to leave.


 Quixote’s next quest is that of “frees” a boy who is tied to a tree and being beaten by his 

master. After freeing the boy Quixote’s makes the master promise on a chivalric code to treat the 

boy fairly, upon leaving the beaten continues worse then it had previously been. His final quest is 

to defend the honor of his imagined lover, from traders he met on the road. After picking a fight 

with the traders Quixote’s is left badly wounded on the side of the road. He is found and

Our delight in or respect for his madness and its wonderful connections to the imagination does not take away from our genuine pain at his humiliation. Though Don Quixote is humiliated on every page of the book, it is only in this final humiliation when he becomes a rational observer of his past insane life and views it with profound regret that we actually enter into real sympathetic pain with him. Until this point, he is an object of our mirth. Once he becomes aware that his perception of reality was in error and that his actions were, therefore, not a product of his autonomous self, we feel genuine compassion for him. His realization that his hyper-vigilance about his dignity as a knight errant was delusional is a serious indignity for him. He has been in error about reality, and everyone has known it except for him. People have gone along with him in a patronizing way.

Miguel began to hear strange sounds, like waterfalls and people laughing, though all he could see was fog surrounding his boat. Suddenly, the old map began to glow in his hands and blinding sunlight broke through the fog. When Miguel was finally able to see he was in shock, all around him were people of the Indian variety. There were statues and buildings made of gold, with a giant golden pyramid on nearby mountain side. A man approached Miguel, though he did not seem very happy. He questioned Miguel, “You! Who are you? Why have you come here?” Miguel explained how he had been searching for El Dorado and that only made the man angrier. The man exclaimed, “You should not be in this sacred place! Greed surrounds your heart and makes up your soul! As punishment, we shall take all of your fortune and banish you from this holy place!” In an instant flash, Miguel was back on his boat, yet none of his stolen fortune was to be found. Miguel couldn’t believe it, his greed and misdeeds had cost him the paradise of his dreams, and got everything he owned taken away. He sobbed many tears of grief as he sailed back to Spain, the only place for a man like

Chivalry is defined as the characteristics that knights had to portray in Middle ages which are loyalty, honor, and being polite. One chivalry characteristics Don Quixote follows in his adventure is honor. Honor is the respect that you have for someone or something. Don Quixote honored Dulcinea and praised her every adventure he went on. After Sancho and Don left the highway they seen a chain gang walking towards their directed Don stopped the guards and ask each convict why they were chained up.

     After teaching the boy a lot about the journey he will go through, the king gave him omens to follow. Santiago sells his sheep, and travels to a town on his way to Egypt. He finds a man that could take him past the desert to Egypt. So the boy gives him the money that he got for the sheep. When the man shows Santiago the town for a little Santiago loses him in a crowd of hundreds shopping in the markets, and loses all his money. The boy learns not to trust anyone, and is told that there are many thieves in that town.

Depicted on the cover of Quixote’s Soldiers is a group of Mexican- American men and women in protest formation. They carry with them signs that say “Justice for La Raza,” “Ando sangrando igual que tu,” and “Cops out of our communities!” David Montejano argues that Mexican- American reform groups are often left out of the Civil Rights Movement taught in a classroom. San Antonio was the birthplace of the Chicano movement. Here, various organizations were formed to encourage the government to increase Mexican- Americans opportunities in the educational field as well as in the work field. The Brown Power movement campaigned for Mexican- Americans to reject assimilation into the American mainstream society, and celebrate their Chicano history.

Montresor devises a plan to kill Fortunado. After telling him he has an expensive wine called “Amontillado”, Fortunado walks down the catacombs with Montresor. They walk deeper and deeper into the catacombs. Montresor is fueled by the anger and rage from Fortunado mocking him. He wants his revenge. Montresor will kill

Lazarillo learns his second master counts and locks up loaves of bread. The priest greedily stores food for himself, which shows Lazarillo how much the priest values food. It is only when Lazarillo attends funerals with his master that he eats well and prays for more people to die. As with the blind man, Lazarillo struggles with the forbidden food stored in a vessel that Lazarillo must creatively learn how to trick and deceive his second master to not die from hunger. He says, “it was because hunger enlightened me, for they say that it sharpens a man’s wits, and a full belly does the opposite; and it was certainly so in my case” (318). Again, Lazarillo fools the priest after he finds the “bread ‘mouse-eaten,’ the cheese devoured” (319). Lazarillo “converted my mouth into such an ample purse” (320). Unfortunately, the cruel priest discovers the truth about Lazarillo’s hidden key and says, “I have found the mouse and the snake that were waging war on me and eating my property” (320). However, Lazarillo is forced to become the snake, which connects to the idea of him becoming the devil. Lazarillo disregards his theft and deems his crime is necessary for his own survival. Furthermore, the concept of materialism connects with food because the priest does not recognize he seeks too much money and power. At the expense of Lazarillo’s starvation, in fact, the priest’s gluttony shows he does not resist nor reject materialism since he is not committed to serving God. The priest’s “enormous stinginess” wanders from “meetings of religious societies and funerals” in a quest for more food since he eats like a “wolf and drink more than a faith healer” (215). He is unfulfilled no matter how much food he has unless he deprives Lazarillo. Afterwards, by hypocritically advising Lazarillo to “go with God,” the priest does not care for a “diligent servant” to keep him

Don Quixote refutes the common perspective regarding the perception of truth in his devoted duty and love for Dulcinea del Toboso. For

The reader have probably wondered how different the life would be, if one day one could have followed his desires? If spontaneously, leaving his routine life behind one could have finally discovered a long awaited feeling of delight?!

     In chapter sixteen, Don Quijote and his sidekick, Sancho, arrive at an inn, all beat up from their battles, and from falling down a lot. The hero thinks the inn is a castle, and deems that they are owed a warm and comfortable place to sleep because he is the Great Don Quijote de La Mancha, braving battles against all evil for the purpose of saving the kingdom. Sancho and a girl who works at the inn, Maritones, have a “knight errant” conversation, in which he realizes he needs to explain the point behind what he and Don Quijote do. “A knight errant can see himself, as fast as ‘one, two, three,’ either beaten with clubs or turned into an emperor. Today, he can be the most wretched creature in the world, and the neediest, and tomorrow he can have two or three kingships to give his squire.” (p. 87) The poor man really thinks that Don Quijote will someday be rich and famous and hook him up. Even if this became the case, as he is really secretly out for himself, for his own recognition, who’s to say that Sancho would get anything out of this, except for orders to relay his newfound fame to Dulcinea?

Melquiades and his squad of Gypsies appear camping near the town in March bringing items to sell from a place of unknown origin and they put the town in awe. The people of the town, unaware of their origin quicky believe that Melquiades and the other Gypsies are people of wonder and are fascinated by the items they bring. This affects the context of the story because not only does it add a tone of curiosity to the reader but it also adds mystery to the villagers’ ideas of Melquiades and his origin. The villagers overall become more enchanted by Melquiades which allows him to continue to build relationships with the village leader Jose Arcadio Buendia and gain the trust of the town. After Jose Arcadio Buendia is trusting of Melquiades, Jose attempts to learn things from Melquiades and mimic his actions because Melquiades is such a mysterious inspiration to the town and Jose wants to become more like him. This allows Melquiades to use the advantage of being an idol to sell Jose amusing items such as touching the ice for money or selling him a telescope. The bringing of these once odd