Writing about Don Quijote--Help!

[Đậu Diễm Phương (send2phuong)]

Writing about Don Quijote--Help before this wednesday!

I have trouble with this topic. I don't have any great ideas for the story that I have to write bêfore this friday, Feb. 4th. If anyone can make up a content or give me some advises. I will develop that idea by myself.
The tôpic is:
"Fatasy world: it is claimed in the beginning of Don Quixote that his
intense reading of all these chivralic romances had "dried out his brain",
had given him a distorted picutre of the world, which he decided to go out
and act upon. There is concern in our time about the distorting effects
certain influences may have on young minds: movies or television full of
sex and violence), or computer games and MUDs that promote "living" in
fantastic worlds, some of violence and "blowing the living snot out of
lots of things", some of driving at fantansic speeds, and even some of
chivralic romances as in the time of King Arthur"s court. Pick one of
these concerns, and write a short tale showing the effects such an
influence might have on a young individual, analogous to DQ"

Bassically, I cannot think of any tale to write. I can make the ideas sound smooth but now, I don't even have one. help!

 

[Doãn Hoàng Lan (Hoàng Lan)]

Don Quijote??? Actually I think that he is very CUTE Who else could have such a limitless imagination ).

 

[Hoàng Chi Mai (lablugirl)]

Pick movie/television/games. You can write about the classic case (classic but very cliché I'm afraid) of average school boy gone off the deep end and starts beating up his siblings and rebelling against his parents, calling them the "monsters" or the "enemies" or some such rap. True story, by the way, which is immensely sad. People seem to find the monster image complex and Don Quijote's giants/windmills analogous. Or write about the kid who brought guns to school and shot his teachers. That too has happened quite a few times...

Personally, I disagree with the whole idea of writing an essay on the bad effects of modern pursuits in connection with Don Quijote, of all things. In the book, DQ's chivalric romance novels are a plot device to prod the man into embarking on his journey. Deeper ideas are found in his other actions. I have always considered Don Quijote to be a story about freedom of spirit: being able to see only what you want to see and nothing else (that's why I love DQ; I agree with Lan that he is impossibly cute ). There is, however, a sardonic edge, through which the author made the comparison between the danger of dreamers and the uselessness and ridiculousness of aristocrats (DQ), and the virtues of the simple but practical man (what's-his-name who follows DQ, Banjo? ). Maybe that latter will be more useful for your essay. movies or television full of sex and violence), or computer games and MUDs that promote "living" in fantastic worlds, some of violence and "blowing the living snot out of lots of things", some of driving at fantansic speeds, and even some of
chivralic romances as in the time of King Arthur"s court are clearly spiritual cocaine of the rich and idle. You won't see a poor person getting his hand on them.

 

[Hoàng Long (Death_Creator)]

How shallow. There's completely no need to put DQ into this. One who authors this topic is either trying hopelessly to sound cool or has totally missed the subtlety of the classic.

 

[Ngọ Hồng Vũ (redbreast)]

CM, poor my "lover" the partner name is Sancho Panza, the squire.
Hmm, i think that the negative side of this novel does not come from Dn Quijote or Sancho themselves, but from the society they lived in. Is this a Realistic novel? I heard the author was sent to prison for this novel or another.

 

[Hoàng Chi Mai (lablugirl)]

Right. Banjo is Shakespeare's. Now I'm horibly confused

 

[Ngọ Hồng Vũ (redbreast)]

"Horribly", mate, you are really confused. Relax!