Poor Little Candide

In Candide we find a lot of humor. I could actually find myself laughing out loud at the book. Candide is a very noble person to which I can relate a lot. I feel that he is a teenager, who doesn’t care about anything and just thinks about himself. Candide answers a question made to him in a way that I could see myself answering, “Do you believe the pope is Antichrist, my friend?’ Said the minister. ‘I have no idea but whether he is or he isn’t, I want some food.’” (Page 27) We all know that satire is present all through the book with all of the exaggerations and ironies it has. It has also some targets but I believe these will become clearer as I advance through the book.

"After being turned out of this earthly paradise, Candide wandered off without thinking which way he was going" (Page 22) Candide is very careless about many things in life. I have noticed things like this a lot through the book. Here, this aspect doesn’t reflect the behavior of a teenager any more, he is now behaving like an 8 year old, so naïve about everything. Simply walking around with no idea of where he is going. Candide is a pretty funny character. Another thing that I thought with this part, was how people have a comfort area and a way of living and whenever they leave this zone it hurts them a lot and stop caring about everything because of the feeling they have.