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Part 1, Prologue | Part 1, Chapter 1 | Part 1, Chapter 2 | Part 1, Chapter 3 | Part 1, Chapter 4

• Cervantes introduces his book, calling it the "child of his brain," but later on refers to it as his stepchild instead.

• The title character of Don Quixote is introduced by Cervantes as a man who has become enraptured with the tales and books and poems involving knights, chivalry and adventure.

• Quixote sees his own truths, whatever reality may actually hold.

• Quixote is a stickler for doing things in exactly the way the knights in his stories did them, and he gets quite upset when things waver from the plan.

• Don Quixote is honorable and he intends to right wrongs whenever and wherever he finds them on his quest for adventure.

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• Quixote's first venture into the world ends rather abruptly with his rescue along the road by a neighbor...

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