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PERSONAL EFFECTS is one of the best novels I've read in a long time-it's complex, moving, and beautifully written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Candide asks Jacques to also take in Pangloss, which he does, and he is also able to heal him and offer him a job.Ĭh 5: Candide, Jacques, and Pangloss get on a ship with many other people, but the ship wrecks and only Candide, Pangloss, and an evil sailor survive. Pangloss informs him that te Bulgars have destroyed the Baron's castle and killed his whole family, including Cunegonde. When he says he hasn't considered the matter, he is sent away and treated poorly, until Jacques kindly takes him in and treats him well.Ĭh 4: Candide remains with Jacques, and finds an ill beggar on the side of the road, who he finds out is his old teacher, Pangloss. The King pardons him but then Candide leaves after he sees the destruction the Bulgars caused in war.Ĭh 3: Candide wanders to a Christian village and is asked whether he believes the Pope is Antichrist or not (satirizing extreme Protestant sects). ![]() Candide is kicked out of the castle when the Baron finds him kissing Cunegonde.Ĭh 2: Candide finds himself in the land of the Bulgars, is treated well at first but then beaten for simply walking outside. SATIRIC TARGET: WHO IS BEING ATTACKED OR CRITICIZED? Christianity, a German philosopher, certain philosophical ideas,įOR WHAT FOLLY OR VICE? For believing that "everything is for the best", for being unable to find satisfaction, for being too positive or too negative which makes you unable to improve the world,Ĭh 1: Candide has a great life in the wonderful castle of the Baron of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh and falls in love with his daughter, Cunegonde. ![]() ![]() Appropriately, Gray and Caroline stayed true to their personalities from previous novels. The author captured how people are not always all good or all bad, but a mixture of both. However, the secondary characters, such as Clyde, Vera, and Jedidiah Magruder, held their own complexity. Luke and Marianne both dealt with internal and external issues as they gravitated toward each other. It is expected that main characters will have flaws requiring change and growth. While reading The Princes of Spies, I noted and appreciated the well-rounded characters. Between the secret romance, the feuding families, and personal struggles, I delighted in reading this historical romance. ![]() Thanks to his choices and romantic attraction to Marianne Magruder, the daughter of a politician he is trying to bring down, the plot had plenty of tension and action. ![]() Luke Delacroix is a bold, adventuresome sort with a penchant for conflict. The Prince of Spies by Elizabeth Camden entertained from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marie-Aude Murail has a gift for creating characters that have a special bond with the reader. In 1987, her first children’s novel, Mystère (Mystery), was published and from then on, she devoted herself to writing for children and young people. She began writing tales, stories and novels published in the magazines of the Bayard Group, including Astrapi, J'aime Lire and Je Bouquine. She started writing romances for women’s magazines and in 1985 she published her first novel for adults. She studied literature at the Sorbonne University, where her doctoral thesis was about the adaptation of classic novels for young readers. She was born 1954 in Le Havre into a family of artists: her father is a poet, her mother a journalist, her brother is a composer, another brother and her sister are writers for children. Marie-Aude Murail has written nearly a hundred books for children and adults and is acclaimed in France and abroad for her novels with their memorable characters. ![]() |