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            This article that I found, I believe, is definitely related to the story of Don Quixote. In the Arizona shooting, the apparent shooting suspect is Jared Loughner. Before the shooting in Arizona, he establishes the belief of nihilism which meant he lived his life without meaning. He destined to live life by this code or principle similar to Don Quixote. Quixote was an all-loner who researched and read books on chivalry which led him to strike down a bunch of windmills in his so called chivalrous times describing the windmills to dragons similar to Jared Loughner. Just like Quixote, Jared Loughner used the principle of nihilism and Lucid Dreaming to kill the little few outside the supermarket that day. Along with each others so called principles, they were obviously obsessed and mentally ill. Even though in both cases it doesn’t talk of both being mentally subsided, indirectly you could tell in their actions because both left their worlds or realities in chaos and confusion.

Daniel
2/4/2011 12:31:22 am

That was a good link of comparison between those two subjects. They both were obsessed with something in some way witch led to there downfall.

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Ms. Miller
2/24/2011 04:01:16 am

Hmmm, your explanation is difficult to swallow. Comparing a mass murderer to a silly man who waves swords at windmills is a bit of a stretch. I agree that they were both "obviously obsessed and mentally ill," but Quixote was far from nihilism; he was idealistic and, thus, lived his full of meaning (it was just a strange, unrealistic meaning).
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