Reading Time and Progress: Chapter 15
Reading Contents/Abstracts:
? Don Quixote met the circus, but he didn't fight it, on the one hand, because Sancho advised him to make peace, on the other hand, because he felt that he shouldn't dispute with the circus, because that was Sancho's business. (I feel that since the second volume, Don Quixote has not had the same fantasy as the last volume. He didn't meet anyone, so he felt like a giant or something. After all, when he met two sheep fighting in the last volume, he thought it was two legions fighting, and Sancho was smarter than he showed)
? In the previous chapter, it was said that the bachelor advised Don Quixote to take a third adventure. At that time, he was still wondering why. This chapter found the reason. The bachelor pretended to be another forest knight, and wanted to respect the knight's rules by defeating Don Quixote (he thought he could defeat a madman-like Don Quixote), so that Don Quixote could stay home for two years and not come out. In two years, Don Quixote would obey the knight's rules, and perhaps his illness would be alleviated. As a result, after meeting Don Quixote in this chapter, the two men fought, and Don Quixote defeated the bachelor (actually, the bachelor's horse stopped moving during the fighting, and the result was that Don Quixote picked it off with one gun). Don Quixote asked the forest knight to find him Dulcinea to see if he was turned into a peasant woman by the magician, but the bachelor wanted revenge, and the specific plot depends on the back.
Reading time and progress: Chapter 16
Reading content: Don Quixote met a gentleman and talked about the gentleman's son, a young man who likes to write poems. He talked about the responsibility of parents, and said that they can be persuaded to learn something but should not be forced to learn something, and that what kind of poetry is worth praising, talent is more important than artistic accomplishment.
? Then he met two lions transported to the king of Spain on the road. In order to prove his courage, Don Quixote wanted to duel with the lions, drove away several people who transported the lions, and asked the driver to open the prison door. The others fled far away. After the driver opened the door, the lion got up lazily and turned around. He didn't go out. The driver advised Don Quixote to abide by the rules of chivalry. If a person didn't play in a duel, it showed that he gave up and never forced to play. Don Quixote agreed, and then the driver closed the door again, and the others came back.
? Don Quixote went to the gentleman's house, met the gentleman's son, the young poet, and discussed with him the major of poetry and knight errant, and praised his poems. (picture)
? After leaving the gentleman's house, Don Quixote met two farmers and bachelors on the road, and learned that a wedding was about to be held in a village in front of them, a beautiful bride and a rich son, and that the bride and the farmer's son next door (a talented but poor young man) were childhood friends. Obviously, the bride's father chose the rich son, and Don Quixote agreed with love (idealism) and Sancho agreed with matching (realism). They saw it on the wedding day.
abstract: what is courage? It is a virtue between two kinds of defects. It is better to be too brave to be reckless than to be afraid to be a coward. Just as profligacy is closer to generosity than meanness, recklessness is closer to true courage than cowardice.
Reading experience and gains: The picture is Don Quixote's more detailed understanding of the knight errant. He understands and does it in this way. Such a person may seem absurd to others, but he can enjoy himself.