Candide Chapters 3 and 4

I loved the way that Voltaire embodies reality in this chapters. When talking about war, the truth is that both sides lose. Apparently there is a winner, but in the end both sides have lost lifes, they´ve created destruction and desperation. It is obvious how he criticizes and attacks religion. I believe he tries to be respectfull towards it, by not putting direct arguments. He decides to convert his religious discomfort, into a story that in the low makes people understand it´s real meaning. At the same time, Voltaire creates a character (Jacques the Anabaptist) that is neutral and that in a way portrays the god in this world, the good in human kind.

Candide Chapters 1 and 2

Did I really understand??
When I read this first two chapters I thought I had understood their meaning and waht they were trying to say. The truth is that after reviewing the chapters in class I came to the conclusion that I had not understood the majority of what the book tried to say. The book tries to use hyperbole and irony creating satire, and this is the way I need to start to read, learning to find the absurd, the exagerated and the target in every sentence.