The Eyes are the Window to the Soul While everyone faces some sort of hardship, circumstance helps determine the amount of difficulty people face in their lives. In Sharbat Gula’s situation, she has faced a great deal of challenges. Correspondingly, this makes her attitude towards life similar to Voltaire’s because circumstance changes people’s views on values such as fulfillment and purpose. During times of struggle, people cling to some sort of ideology or belief. It is comforting to have something that stays constant during all of the turmoil. Gula clings to her religious beliefs during all of her struggle; they kept her grounded and gave her motivation to live. In Candide’s case, Pangloss’s intellectual beliefs keep Candide grounded, at least until Pangloss gets hung. His belief that everything happens for a reason gave him hope for a better tomorrow. He thought that his struggle was for the betterment of mankind, and it gave him a sense of purpose. In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie is deathly ill; he knows that he is…show more content… This, of course, affects their views of the world, and it likely gives them a more pessimistic view. Often when people struggle more, they see the world in a more negative view. Consequently, my view of the current events is going to be more optimistic than someone like Gula; all Gula has seen is war and poverty. She is living by some miracle, but under those circumstances, she is not living a happy life. With little freedom and money, she is unable to even meet her basic needs. Her struggle shows in the photograph of her. All of her emotions, mostly anger, shine through her green eyes, and her skin, despite her young age, is thick like leather. As Candide goes through his journey, he begins to show wear like Gula. His back is full of scars from being lashed. He went from a pampered, wealthy person to a solider. Both Gula and Candide had to learn how to be
