Voltaire’s Candide is a fascinating work. It never makes you feel boring because it reads like an adventure story of Candide. Contradictions exist in Candide’s life. On one hand, he is a misfortune man when he was kick out of the castle because of his forbidden love with Cunégonde. Physical and mental pains torture Candide, for example, serious injury on his body and the death of Jacques and Pangloss. One the other hand, luck always accompanies him because some kind people, such as, Jacques and the old lady, who save his life. The coincidences are full of the story, like Candide meets Pangloss and Cunégonde after the castle was invaded. All the features above create a fascinating story. Nevertheless, it is not difficulty to find the trace of the author’s life in the. Writers tend to mix their own life experience into their works, because it is much easier to express their real emotions into their works. It makes theirs work closer to the real life. Candide’s complex experience, such as, the unstable life of escaping, is similar to Voltaire’s experience, that is influenced by some political reasons. In the story, Candide is always thinking about the philosophy problems like whether the tutor Pangloss’s theory is right or wrong. In the real life, Voltaire has his own philosophy, and it is different from Alexander Pope’s assertion and Gottfried Wilhelm. Just like Voltaire, Candide is looking for the philosophy which he believes right. Does the author want to prove this philosophy is right in the story?

After my father told me the misfortune life of my grandmother, I’m always thinking about writing her story because it is a miserable true story. I lived with my grandmother for more than sixteen years, but she never makes me feel pessimistic, and I did not hear about her experience until she left the world. If I can write it well, it will be a great novel. However, I never have the courage to raise my pen, since too many moods and feelings are beyond my experience, such as, married a man, who you do not love or a single mother raised six children in poverty. All these heartbreaking experience cannot be described well after you really suffered them. So the story of my grandmother may never be fascinating except it comes from my grandmother’s pen. In terms of Voltaire’s work Candide, it seems like a story, and I also believe it is the story from the author’s life experience. What kind of idea of thesis does the author want the readers to know about? His philosophy idea of understanding of world, or the others ?