I personally think that the moral the story is trying to teach us is that it is risky to engage ourselves too much in the literary works that we read. Meaning, we should set limits to how far our imagination goes. In Quixote's case, after reading on books about knights, he already got fantasy and reality mixed up. After reading the article I realised that there are times when I get too caught up in a book that I tend to get carried away. The article served as a reminder to me, and to all of us for that matter. The author really wrote it in a way that we can clearly see how preposterous it is to be living unrealistically. It is a good thing that we are able to have a vivid imagination of the literary works that we read but we should also keep in mind that the things that we read are not always real and should remain in the book. It is not bad that we escape from reality as we engage ourselves in reading. It becomes a bad thing, however, the moment we surrender ourselves to fantasy. It is okay to escape from reality once in a while. We should just make sure that we do not dwell in our "imaginary world" forever.

- Michaela Defensor