Read the passage below and answer the question "Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, we may plunge our hands up to the elbows
In what they call adventures, but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world,
thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defense, unless indeed thou perceives that those who assall me
are rabble or base folk for in that case thou mayest very properly old me; but if they be knights it is on no
account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a
knight"
"No soft words with me, for I know you, ying rabble," said Don Qubote, and without waiting for a reply he
spurred Rocinante and with leveled lance charged the first friar with such fury and determination, that, the
friar had not flung himself off the mule, he would have brought him to the ground against his will, and sore
wounded, if not killed outright. The second brother, seeing how his comrade was treated, drove his heels into
his castle of a mule and made off across the country faster than the wind. from Don Qubote
Then she told me that she had just passed the road test, bribing the officer with five hundred yuan In addition
to the three thousand paid as the application and test fees. She e-malled: "Sister, I must have a car. Yesterday
Minmin, our little niece, came to town driving a brand new Volkswagen. At the sight of that gorgeous
machine, I felt as if a dozen awls were stabbing my heart Everybody is doing better than me, and I don't want
to live anymore!
I realized she didn't simply want to impress her ex She too had caught the national auto manla. I told her that
was ridiculous, nuts. I knew she had some savings. She got a big bonus at the end of each year and
freelanced at night. How had she become so vain and so unreasonable? I urged her to be rational. That was
Impossible, she claimed, because everybody drove a car in our hometown. I said she was not everybody
and mustn't follow the trend. She wouldn't listen and asked me to remit her money as a loan. She already had
tidy sum in the bank about eighty thousand yuan, she confessed from "The Bane of the Internet
In a short paragraph of at least two hundred words, compare and contrast how Miguel de Cervantes's use of figurative
language differs from language use by Ha Jin. Use at least two examples of textual evidence to support your answer.