Candide's Punishment

Throughout the book Candide receives many punishments for a variety of reasons. The question is did he deserve them? When answering this I tried to approach it in an unbiased way. As a reader you understand that Candide over all is a nice person with good intentions but the more I thought about event s that took place in the book the more I realized Candide did commit crimes that deserve a punishment. As the book goes along Candide does things that deserve punishment.

The punishment he received when in the army and the punishment of being kicked out of his home was not deserved. As we get farther into the book Candide starts killing people. In the situation where he killed the Jew and the inquisitor, which he is hunted for, as a reader I can forgive that. Since he was protecting both himself and Cunegonde I will not count that against him. Then he kills Cunegonde brother, which he is haunted for. In this situation his killing was probably unnecessary. Then he killed the ladies lovers, which was like killing innocent people.

I think despite his good intentions Candide is deserving punishment more and more.

How Do You Know What You Know

Scene
It's Christmas Morning.The family gathers in the living room of grandma's house after breakfast. People begin passing around presents. I am handed a medium sized box covered in candy cane wrapping paper with a beautiful gold bow.

Grandma: "I saw a jacket at the store that I thought you might like. It was on sell so I couldn't pass it up."

I rip the wrapping paper and ribbon off the box, excited to see what's inside. I pull out a very stiff feeling jacket that has a color resembling a weird grayish purple. My excitement has instantly vanished.

Grandma: "Do you like it?"

Me: Yeah thank you so much.

I plaster on a grin for my grandma.

Grandma: Oh good!
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Alternative scene
It's Christmas Morning.The family gathers in the living room of grandma's house after breakfast. People begin passing around presents. I am handed a medium sized box covered in candy cane wrapping paper with a beautiful gold bow.

Grandma: "I saw a jacket at the store that I thought you might like. It was on sell so I couldn't pass it up."

I rip the wrapping paper and ribbon off the box, excited to see what's inside. I pull out a very stiff feeling jacket that has a color resembling a weird grayish purple.

Grandma: "Do you like it?"

Me: "Umm. Not really but thanks."

Grandma: "You don't like it?"

Me: Umm, no.

Grandma (slightly sad and disappointed): Oh.... ok. I guess we can return it.

AKWARD

       From an early age everyone tells you that your not supposed to lie. I always seem to go back and forth with the idea of lying. But I have come to the conclusion that it is okay to lie under certain circumstances. I've learned this from experiences of telling the truth. I have told my share of lies, some of them much like the first scene.Usually I feel fine with lying when there isn't a serious situation happening, there's really no consequences to others that come from me lying and when someone's feelings are at stake. It just doesn't feel good when it I think I'm crushing someones feelings unneccesarily. I guess my stance could be argued on whether this is truth but, it's where I stand.