Candide has always been optimistic throughout the book and when he is something bad happens to him.
Example: Everything was going just fine in El Dorado and he and Cacambo decide to take the jewels and sheep to go back to Westphalia "Best of all worlds" to have more money than everyone else. Then he ends up losing mostly all his money to a slave owner that offered to take him and his sheep to Europe.
When Candide is pessimistic, good things happen to him.
Example: Candide and Cacambo were captured by some Oreillons and they were going to cook and eat them and Candide becomes sad and thinks pessimistic and Cacambo talks the Oreillons out of killing them. Eventually they even become close with the king of El Dorado and with riches.
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