Don Chafin

makes you who you are and what you categorize within the human race. Cervantes also connotes the term “stumbling” (33); when we see the word “stumbling”, we often see it as an action that is when one trips over another, but Cervantes means to connote it as one who is struggling with more internal thoughts. “Bullets” (19) are being personified to be the “eyes” or the superior race, those who are there to “kill slowly” (19), being those who take down the minds of those with colored skin, slowly…

Truth in Fictional Literature One of the themes in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is the opposition of truth and imaginary in literature. Various characters within the novel, including the priest, state that literature’s purpose should be to only illuminate the truth and even suggest censorship on books that could rot one’s mind, like Don Quixote’s mind. However, one of the aspects of fictional literature that the priest and others do not understand is that fictional literature does contain…

Have you ever read the spectacular novel Don Quixote? In the novel, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote and his squire share a friendship. Sancho, his squire, always helps Don Quixote. Whether it’s telling Don Quixote not to attack the windmills or even advising him not to worry about the princess, Sancho is always helping Don Quixote. The painting, Young Girls at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, two girls are at a piano and one girl is helping the other read the sheet music. The…

Don Juan is a name synonymous with seduction. Today, a young man popular with young women may be called a ‘regular Don Juan’ and many bachelors could only hope for that comparison. This modern colloquialism is rooted in the names’ history. For example, Moliere’s Don Juan is a libertine. He is willing to break hearts, wedge between couples, and lie in his pursuit of pleasure. This zealous seduction raises the question of where Don Juan finds pleasure: In the act of seduction or in the lovemaking…

one can escape death. Death is probably one of the most feared words in the English language. Death is this undesired uncertainty that threatens our belief that our lives will never end. Its causes most people to panic due to its unpredictability. Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise tells the unusual story of how Jack Gladney, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, and his family illustrate the postmodern ideas of religion, death, and popular culture. The theme of death’s weight over the…

enemies' captain to be dead or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it."Shakur adopted the stage name ‘Makaveli’ as well as the phrase "Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli" in the album sleeve for The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory — an album which depicts Tupac Shakur as Jesus Christ. There’s also a numerical theory involved in all this and it's called the 7-day theory.What is the 7-day theory? Well, there are far too many numerical…