Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes about a gentleman named Alonso Quixano who reads so many tales of chivalry that he decides to become a knight named Don Quixote. He recruits his neighbor, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Don Quixote and Sancho embark on adventures where Don Quixote's antiquated ideas of knighthood are met with reality. Don Quixote is obsessed with defending the helpless and destroying the wicked based on the ideals in the chivalrous books he has read. He promises to make Sancho the governor of an isle in return for accompanying him on his adventures on his old horse Rocinante as he searches Spain for