Candide is a very encouraged story that I can learned a lot by reading the detailed plots. Even the story is written in old English, it is more interesting than what I expected. The novel contains background history, love story, conflicts, religion concepts, and so on. I can see how cruel the ancient were in the first few chapters, like Candide has to “run the gauntlet thirty-six times and endured two floggings by two thousand men.” by suspected as a deserter.(358) It was so unreasonable in nowadays. I am appreciated that I am living in this century. Also, I like the writer, Voltaire made the story so clear in every chapters that I can know all the focal points. He created plenty of characters and made the story can be imagined as a movie.

In this novel, one of my favorite character is the Anabaptist, Jacques. I agree that he said: “ men have corrupted nature, for they are not born wolves, yet that is what they become. god gave them neither twenty four pound cannon nor bayonets, yet they have manufactured both in order to destroy themselves.”(361) By reading history and the news, that is so true that humans always create things to destroy their own world, but the god. In this horrible real world, if we are fortunate to meet people like Jacques, we will have more hope and see the bright side of the world. In my life, I can feel I am around of these kind of people, so it is easy to empathize with Candide in the story.

Since I haven’t finished the story, I don’t know how the story going to end, but I am looking forward to finish it. It increases my interest in reading in English novel.