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Humans are set apart from wholly another(prenominal) animals for one reason. We have the power of imagination and thus power to typify what we read. Therefore, we can argue that the written word is the most meaningful of all types of communication. It is valid to say that if ten people read a carry and were asked to retell the book in their own words that wed apprehend ten different versions of the same book. In todays society, our interpretations are feared. We might interpret eachthing contrary to the pens intentional meaning. The author could consequently possibly be liable for any actions we take later reading his works. father Quixote is one who consciously decides to interpret his books of valorousness as the right way of heart and concurrently decides to live his own life in that manner. I remember reading that a certain Spanish knight . . . having broken his sword in battle, tore a cracking bough or tree branch from an oak(69). Since simulate Quixote had read about this special(a) 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 gain Quixote had any pain, 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 leaving 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 conform to what he had read in his books about knight errants spending many lidless nights in the woodland and desert dwelling on the memory of their ladies(70). I do not believe that Don Quixote is mad, as some may say, but that he is only interpreting what he has read to reconcile 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 drove him to aberration and should not have been published. However, if all writt en works were feared in 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 burn 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 mischief those books of chivalry have done(61).