Rogelio
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I too, at one point in my life when I was younger must have thought about what was the point of reading such a long and boring book. However, somehow along the line I came to realize that Don Quixote even though he saw things that were really not there and he acted in a matter totally opposite of his contemporaries; I came to realize that his story and his life speaks to all of us. Whether Cervantes intended it that way or not; Don Quixote has come to symbolize the good in our rotten society; a conscious that will not be shut down. If you think about it, even now; whenever you go against the current and try to do as your heart and honour tell you to do; the world sees you as a misfit; as some one that does not get what's going on... and that might be the case; but the essence of the human spirit lies exactly on the message that Don Quixote tries to convey to us.