Free Blog 2

For my free choice blog I read chapter 2-4 of Candide. Candide meet’s an old guy called Pangloss who tells him that back in the castle where Candide use to live , where his love interest was in,  everyone died from an attack. Candide and Pangloss decide to travel to Portugal. On their way there they got the help on a friendly guy who sadly dies at sea on their way. After battling storms and earthquake they arrive to land. As soon as they arrive they get  convicted to a sentence death. Pangloss got hanged and Candide was meant to be whipped and shot. Lucky for Candide an old women saves Candide after he got whipped and heal his wound. Based on what I read so far I think the writer is trying to teach the main character a lesson. In the beginning of the book the main character kept thinking “everything happens for good” that’s what he literally said.  The pattern that this book is going is pretty chronological. It doesn’t jump from one time period to another. The writing it self is not messy and hard to read. Everything in the book is straight forward. The author does us a little of compare and contrast here and there. He goes back on what the character stated and compares to what really happens instead on what the character thinks will happen. Over all I’m enjoying this book and how it’s written. It’s a bit old but not bad at all.