CKQ+Sam

Requirements:
 * 3-5 examples
 * your examples should include evidence that demonstrates why this is not the best of all possible worlds
 * remember to look for 'rays of hope'
 * as in the example above, quote your evidence and explain how it answers the key question

Candide is NOT living in the best of worlds. First after their leaving of Eldorado, they have went to Surinam and then found the negro man lying there all torn apart. this shows if this is the best of all worlds, what will the other worlds be like? Not only that when Candide goes to the skipper: //"well, well! said the careful Vanderdendur to himslef. "Here is a foreigner who parts with 10,000 piastres straight off! He must be fairly rich. Returning a moment later, he informed Candide that he could not sail for less than 20,000. "Very well, you shall have them." said Candide//. So this shows that people are always looking for ways to get money and only think about themselves. Not only that when they went into Mademoiselle Marquise, she also deceptively took his 2 huge diamonds after trying to seduce him. He is a victim to almost every deception possible in the world. There is a ray of hope and Candide mentions it twice. He says : "I think God has abandoned it to a malign thing - all except your Eldorado, of course. Eldorado is not only now known as the city of gold, now its like a haven for all the "good" people in this book.