Relating To Candide

Candide is a character you can relate to very easily. Candide is simply a normal guy who studies, likes a girl, and is young and simple. As many high school students are, in fact as most of them are. One of the main characteristics of an average high school student is the way in which he refers to his classes and to his teacher. It is very funny how all of us refer rather informal or even inappropriately to our teachers. One example could be how we often say “That guy is crazy! Making us read 2 chapters for tomorrow I hate that guy”. But this is simply our way and our custom of whining and complaining about everything. Candide refers to his teacher in another informal way, “Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigo-logy” Page 20. Another aspect about Candide is how he really liked Cunegonde, “for he found lady Cunegonde extremely beautiful” Page 20. This is another basic characteristic of a high school student how they like someone and they don’t tell them. It’s nice to read something you relate to once in a while, not like Dante’s Inferno or Epictetus.