"Candide"

1. Candide goes on little, adventures, as he's escaping from the baron. He goes to many different places, enduring wars and near death.

2. I think he's saying that life is not perfect, but it is just, and it's not always happy, because bad things happen to people for seemingly no reason.

3. A beggar begs for food and the "holier than thou" people say that they won't help. This shows that their religion had hypocrisy, and arrogance. They were killing each other over the simple idea of when baptism was done.

4. The irony is that at the end, he sees an old, poor person, which is Pangloss. His life didn't turn out as great as he thought it would!

5. I think he's too skeptical and pessimistic. Everything happens for a reason and he should be able to understand that. They may not happen for the best, but they happen for a reason.