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.