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  1. a Duke and Duchess' servant dresses up as Merlin and tells Don that Dulcinea’s enchantment can be undone if Sancho whips himself 3,300 times...
  2. Sancho lies to Don, saying that an enchanter has turned Dulcinea into a peasant girl. Undoing this enchantment becomes Quixote’s chief goal...
  3. 2nd part of the novel begins with a tirade against a phony sequel of Don Quixote, published between Cervantes’s two parts.
  4. the priest and the barber come to drag Don home. assuming he is under the power of a spell he accompanies them, ending his second expedition
  5. Sancho bears the brunt of the punishments that arise from Quixote's behavior & tries his best to correct his master’s outlandish fantasies...
  6. he becomes convinced of healing power of the Balsam of Fierbras, an elixir that makes him so ill that, by comparison, he later feels healed
  7. Quixote abandons a boy, leaving him in the hands of an evil farmer simply b/c farmer swears he will not harm the boy.
  8. He becomes more bandit than savior on the 2nd mission, stealing from justifiably angry citizens, acting against "threats to his knighthood"
  9. He gives up food, shelter, & comfort in the name of a peasant woman Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess, but has never met
  10. Quixote pledges to make Sancho governor of an isle in exchange. On Rocinante, a barn nag past his prime, Quixote rides ISO glory & adventure
  11. After 1st failed adventure, sets out on 2nd 1 w befuddled laborer Sancho Panza, whom he persuaded to accompany him as faithful squire.
  12. Don Quixote is gentleman from La Mancha, Spain. Obsessed with chivalrous ideals, takes up his lance to defend helpless and destroy wicked.