Cervantes’ Don Quixote
In a well-crafted 500 word mini-essay, and drawing on the discussion in the lesson notes, explore the metaphorical and analogical dimensions of the story told by Sancho to Quixote in Chapter 20. This assignment is deliberately open-ended. It challenges your interpretive powers and creative thinking. How does Sancho’s story relate to the episode of the misrecognition of the hammering sound? How does it relate to the general theme of tensions between fact and fiction? Or you might, for example, see an analogy between Sancho and Cervantes (telling their audience a story), and Quixote and the reader (you).
