Cervantes autobiography in five shorts
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Story is based on the original book written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and it's been adapted for kids.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Who Was Miguel de Cervantes?
Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in He became a soldier in and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto.
Captured by the Turks in , Cervantes spent five years in prison. before he was ransomed and returned home. After less successful earlier efforts, Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in He died in
Early Life
The fourth of seven children, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially for almost his entire life.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (Author).His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon—a lowly trade at the time—and the family moved around often in Cervantes youth as his father searched for better prospects.
Whatever his family's financial conditions, Cervantes was an avid reader as a child—a skill he was reportedly taught by a relative.
But whether he had much in the way of formal education has been a subject of debate among scholars. Based on analyses of Cervan
