Don Quijote first appears right in the beggining of the novel on page 13. The narrator begins the story with describing Don Quijote. "In the village of La Mancha their lived, not very long ago, one of those gentleman who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast grey hound." (page 13). After he is described his name is mentioned.
Don Quijote is a very odd character. He is an old man who seems to have gone crazy. He was known to always have his nose in one of those old romance novels and knight tales. Eventually he decided he wanted to become a knight. He realized he needed to do all the things that typical knights he read about do. He needed a horse (which his was not very strong), a woman to fall in love with, armor,he needed to be dubbed a knight, and most importantly he wanted to "set right endless injustices" (Pg17).
I don't think that Don Quijote is like any character we have seen. If Don Quijote was actually born a knight then maybe we could compare him to Odysseus or another hero, but he seems like just a ordinary old man who has gone crazy. although he is acting like a hero some could say, he is only acting this way because he wants to be a knight. He was not born for greatness, the sky did not thunder the day he was born. There were no prophecies stating that he was born for greatness. Don Quijote is just trying to act like a knight so he is doing everything that he thinks a knight does. In the other books we have read, the main characters were hero's, and in this book, Don quijote is just trying to immitate one.
