Don Quijote 1

In just four chapters this book has moved most of the class, all the way from love, to laughter and tears. Cervantes is known as the prince of ingenuity, although he was a failure in his life and he did not stand out. He was very poor and was in jail a couple of times.

Cervantes begins the book with a scenario a place in La Mancha, a region of Spain. But were was Don Quixote born? Cervantes only tells us that he lived in La Mancha but doesn’t really specify in a town. It is very important that Cervantes did not give Don Quixote an actual birth place. Could we know were Don Quixote was from just by guessing, since we have Sancho´s and Dulcinea´s birthplace? We can’t, because Cervantes only says that Sancho and Dulcinea lived in a town close to the one Don Quixote was from, so he could be from a number of towns around the area.