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Humans are set apart from all(a) other animals for one reason. We have the reason of imagination and thus power to interpret what we engage. Therefore, we can argue that the written word is the most meaning(prenominal) of all types of communication. It is valid to say that if ten people read a book and were asked to retell the book in their take words that wed hear ten different versions of the same book. In todays society, our interpretations are feared. We might interpret anything contrary to the authors wise(p) meaning. The author could then possibly be liable for any actions we require after reading his works. take Quixote is one who consciously decides to interpret his books of valiancy as the right way of life and concurrently decides to live his own life in that manner. I remember reading that a original Spanish knight . . . having broken his sword in battle, tore a great bough or limb from an oak(69). Since wear off Quixote had read closely this particular knight , he justifies it to himself that he too could also tear a limb from a tree and uses it as a makeshift lance. When Sancho asks if Don Quixote had any trouble oneself, he replies, I do not complain of the painbecause a knight errant is not allowed to complain of any wounds(69-70). Again, Don Quixote is going by a set of rules of chivalry that he obtained from his reading. At night, Don Quixote refuses to sleep but thought about his Lady Dulcinea, to aline to what he had read in his books about knight errants spending umteen sleepless nights in the woodland and desert dwelling on the holding of their ladies(70). I do not believe that Don Quixote is mad, as some(a) may say, but that he is only interpreting what he has read to suit him. If Don Quixote were a real human in todays society his family could very well sue the publishers of the books that he read, claiming that the books brood him to insanity and should not have been published. However, if all written works were feared i n that context, then it is also a possible that all books are to be feared. This is shown when Don Quixotes niece helps a priest and a barber to rationalize Don Quixotes treasured books of chivalry. When the barber suggests that These do not deserve burning with the rest, because they do not and will not do the badness those books of chivalry have done(61).