My English teacher wants me to read Donkey Hotee. Why should I read a book about a jackass?

Answer 1

Don't be such a stubborn mule..just read it!


:-)

Answer 2

Your English teacher probably thinks you could learn something about yourself from Don Quixote.... it's about a man living in his own little dream world. He thinks he's the best, most noblest knight to ever exist.... at a time when there are no more knights in shining armor. He runs around on quests, accompanied by his loyal servant Sancho. His hallucinations lead him to do things like riding head-on into operating windmills and getting his rear end kicked by the sails. However, because his motivation is honest (if delusional) and giving, he ends up making the world a better place in spite of his wierdness.

Answer 3

LOL it's Don Quixote. Often called the first modern novel, Don Quixote originally conceived as a comic satire against the chivalric romances. However, Cervantes did not destroy the chivalric ideal of the romances he rejected - he transfigured it. The work have been seen as a veiled attack on the Catholic Church or on the contemporary Spanish politics, or symbolizing the duality of the Spanish character.

Neither wholly tragedy nor wholly comedy Don Quixote gives a panoramic view of the 17th-century Spanish society. Central characters are the elderly, idealistic knight, who sets out on his old horse Rosinante to seek adventure, and the materialistic squire Sancho Panza, who accompanies his master from failure to another. Their relationship, although they argue most fiercely, is ultimately founded upon mutual respect. In the debates they gradually take on some of each other's attributes.

During his travels, Don Quixote's overexcited imagination blinds him to reality: he thinks windmills to be giants, flocks of sheep to be armies, and galley-slaves to be oppressed gentlemen. Sancho is named governor of the isle of Barataria, a mock title, and Don Quixote is bested in a duel with the Knight of the White Moon, in reality a student of his acquaintance in disguise. Don Quixote is passionately devoted to his own imaginative creation, the beautiful Dulcinea. "Oh Dulcinea de Tobosa, day of my night, glory of my suffering, true North and compass of every path I take, guiding star of my fate..." The hero returns to La Mancha, and only at his deathbed Don Quixote confesses the folly of his past adventures.

Answer 4

the book is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, it is not about a jackass but a knight with vision problems and the problems that ensue from it

Answer 5

You really ought to check it out. Mule it over a bit and see what you think. The author seriously works hard to @ss'entuate the positive.

Answer 6

It's not just about jackasses. But more about movement of air that he was trying to teach you. He was probably giving you a hint..... :))

Answer 7

I really like Juan Valdez and his A@@

Answer 8

Are you sure its not Don Kyote? I dont know how to spell his name. Oh well?

Answer 9

Because it takes one to know one.