The Final Thoughts...

Sophie and Alberto are escaping from Albert Knag, and Hilde doesn’t have idea of it. She believes that by reading more about the philosophers and more books she will find them. After escaping of him Albert meets her daughter and he disappears on the airport because of that. Then Albert knows he is passing through the same thing Alberto and Sophie. He thought he had someone following him. Sophie and Alberto arrive home and Hilde finally is with them. The last teaching all of them have is the Big Bang, Hilde analyze it and tells what she thinks about it, there Sophie learns and Alberto achieves his goal, make them think as philosophers.

“Basically there are not many philosophical questions to ask. We have already asked some of the most important ones. But history presents us with many different answers to each question. So it is easier to ask philosophical questions than to answer them.”

At the end there are not so many philosophical questions to ask, it is simple but when you become a philosopher you ask more question. More and more and then we can see the growth on Hilde’s and Sophie’s world, they became great thinkers.

"However, we must not exaggerate the importance of these figures. It is enough just to hold a stone in your hand. The universe would have been equally incomprehensible if it had only consisted of that one stone the size of an orange. The question would be just as impenetrable: where did this stone come from?" 

Concluding this book the figures rent as important as the theories or the things they believe in but what they give to the world. With every question that the book started the things became bigger because she learned and that is the important thing.

To be honest I didn’t liked this book even though I read it because once it was checked out. I learned about philosophers and their teachings which I believe is something good this book has because now we are learning about them in humanities and this can make me make connections with them and this book, Sophie’s World. 

Philosophers and Their Teachings

Sophie and Alberto continue their study over all the philosophers. Both start to investigate the nature of animals. They base all their teachings on Charles Darwin, a scientist which studied them. They analyze humans and animals, telling that humans are more adaptable and complex in nature. Alberto comes to the conclusion life is a gift and everyone should enjoy it. As well they analyze Freud, a famous psychologist. They test their teachings and make psychoanalysis and with this they conclude that humans are totally different creatures they are a sign of evolution.

“A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.”

Here in this quote, they teach us that everything that philosophers, scientist, and fathers of something make us achieve a goal as they achieved theirs. They create their own thongs and come able to teach many others such as Alberto is doing with Sophie. 

"it was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas" 

Inspired on Darwin’s and Freud’s teachings the quote reveals what they were right. Each time living things evolve, become different and according to their habitat they adjust, they are perfect for their habitat but not perfect at all.

On the following chapters I believe that Alberto will achieve his goal in Sophie turning her philosopher. As well her father will come back and her family will be united agin and there is when Alberto says goodbye to Sophie, her pupil. 

The Mail Box

During the following days Sophie kept receiving those letters each day she received a packet with more information about the philosophers and the ancient communities. She learned a lot about it. One day Sophie's mother opened the mail box with the anonymous address and the anonymous person. Sophie, to keep her privacy, told her mom it was from an admirer so she don't read the philosophers history. She got another question that asked her why does Legos were the best you in the world and is the when she learns how to thinks as a philosopher. One day Sophie wakes up with the idea of inviting the anonymous a coffee so both can talk, she left the letter on the mail box. When she was going to fall asleep she believes se sees some one getting the letter and leaving another one. Sophie goes outside and finds information about Socrates, and she gets the name of the one that is writing, Alberto Knox. The silk scarf that is there, is a gift for her and Sophie needs to take care of it. During he next days she learns a lot about Alberto, his trips and everything. She also finds out a relationship between Hilde and Alberto. 

"Sophie knew that 'modesty' was an old-fashioned word for shyness - for example, about being seen naked. But was it really natural to be embarrassed about that? If something was natural, she supposed, it was the same for everybody. In many parts of the world it was completely natural to be naked. So it must be society that decides what you can and can't do. When Grandma was young you certainly couldn't sunbathe topless. But today, most people think it is 'natural,' even though it is still strictly forbidden in lots of countries. Was this philosophy? Sophie wondered." (Gaarder 60)

In the following chapters, with this quote we can see how the mentality of Sophie has changed. Now she is using her analysis way more and here we can see her telling things and making her notice that she is starting to think as a philosophers. 

"you would realize that all the cookies were formed in the same mold. And what is more, Sophie, you are now seized by the irresistible desire to see this mold. Because clearly, the mold itself must be utter perfection - and in a sense, more beautiful - in comparison with these crude copies." (Gaarder 85) 

With everything Alberto tell to Sophie, we can se his purpose he wants her to learn, lo analyze and make questions. Alberto wants Sophie to became a curious philosopher and he is achieving that. With every letter and activity he makes her more open minded and with the exercise of the cookies represent perfection like in Ancient Greece architecture. 

I can infer that in the next chapters Sophie will keep telling Alberto that she wants to meet him but he tells her that is not the time yet. Even though Alberto shares an address with her and they will meet. He will get mad and disappointed with her because she didn't follow his rules. Alberto will stop leaving letters in her home.  

Anonymus Mails, Many Questions

Sophie Amundsen, a 14 year old, after school receives one anonymous question on her mail box. The question said "Who are you?" Sophie went upstairs after reading this question and start thinking who was she, her physical appearance or her personality. After a while Sophie goes to the mail box and finds another question, "Where does the world come from?" As a religious person she believed that God was the creator but she was more into the philosophical world so she started questioning. The same day she receives another question wishing her happy birthday from the Lebanon, she got confused because was from Hilde's father. She didn't tell anyone about the letters because she didn't knew who was writing them, or where why we're coming from because the Lebanon letter didn't match the person who wrote it. That day she comes home and find another letters, guessing that is from the same person. It contained three pages talking about philosophy and Ancient Greece philosophers. That night she had a philosophical discussion with her mother but she believed that Sophie, her daughter, was taking drugs. 

"Wasn't it odd that she didn't know who she was? And wasn't it unreasonable that she hadn't been allowed to have any say in what she would look like?" (Gaarder 6) 

This quote can show us that is almost impossible describe who you are, as Sophie she views herself different because she knows her. While others just view and judge her physical appearance. As well in the question of the world is way harder to understand because we just have theories on how the world was created, but we don't have the truth. 

"Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport." (Gaarder 14)

In this quote we can find out what Sophie do in her free time, that is spend alone in a corner at her house making philosophical thoughts and thinking about her life. 

In the next chapters I believe Sophie will find out who is the person who is sending her the he anonymous letters and she will do anything to meet him because she loves mysteries and solving things.  

She Is Back!

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Quentin and Ben are in the road to find Margo, after a small discussion on the minivan they see cows on the road. This was almost impossible to prevent an accident because there was no exit. Quentin does something in the car and saves his life and his friends. Even though Quentin gets cut with a beer he had on his car. Finally they get to Agloe because Lacey finds Margo’s car. FINALLY THEY FOUND HER. She was shocked they finally were found and they talked about their childhood experiences. And explains that she is a paper girl and Orlando is not a total paper town.

“I never knew you until I got to know you through your clues,” he says. “I like the clues more than I like you.” (pg. 283)

This quote can tell that during all the experience Quentin got to know about Margo, a girl full of mysteries and with this experience he got to know her and get the pleasure to understand her.

“A paper town for a paper girl.”  (pg. 293)

John Green, the uthor wants to tell that Margo did what she wanted to do, she went somewhere she though she belong. And a paper town for a paper girl means that is a place where someone belongs, where you can it in without being judged.

I liked this book because it toked you to the adventures Quentin goes, it makes you feel and wanting to know were is Margo and when she is going to be found and when they found her she is in a place she belong.

Clues To Find Her, No One Believes

Again Quentin tries for the help of a detective but he doesn’t help him. The detective says to him she is now over eighteen years old and she is legal now and she can do these things. For solving this problem Quentin lies to his parents on going to the prom but the goes where the next clue takes him the minimall, where her smell was fresh but she wasn’t there anymore. Then Quentin goes to the party to pick up his drunken friends and later they talk about the new clues and things he find I the minimall.

"I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass and all the different ways you can see it made me think about all the ways I’d seen and missing Margo. There was no shortage of ways to see her. I’d been focused on what had become of her, but now with my head trying to understand the multiplicity of grass and her smell from the blanket still in my throat, I realized that the most important question was who I was looking for.” (pg. 173)

This talks about Margo because she is the one full of mysteries. Each time she puts harder things as the clues and this time it was a poem. Quentin tried very hard on understanding it and analyzing the theme for it and knowing it was a clue and not just a poem.

“Maybe she deserved to be forgotten. But at any rate, I couldn’t forget her.” (pg. 164)

This reveals that Quentin and his friends are giving up, the author is trying you say that sometimes people want to disappear from the world, maybe because of mistakes. Otherwise because they want to be alone and leave their own lives.

On the following chapters and maybe at the end there will be a part where they stop searching for her. But as in the previous blog they told that when you stop searching they will find it, Margo will appear miles away in a place she love to be and happy without any inconvenience and she will be surprised they find her.

The Next Day, The More Clues

The next day Quentin finds out Margo is missing.  She leaves some clues hidden and that id how Quentin has to find Margo without knowing where the hell she went! On the other hand he finds out Lacey didn’t know about Margo’s boyfriend cheating on her OMG this is something new! Lacey was also worried about her because she wasn’t going to school. Margo was still missing. Quentin tries to figure out one clue Margo leaves him and he goes to her home thinking he was correct but no, the next clue was in his own home. After finding the next clue which is an address he calls to his friends. When they arrive they looked and the place was terrible, was horrible but that was about, paper towns ae like that.

“The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.” (pg. 111)

This quote made me think a lot because at first I didn’t understand it but then I connected it to Margo. She was a girl full of mysteries and to find her maybe make this situation not a mystery but an event. Not to try so hard because when Quentin thought he knew where the clue was he was wrong, it was in another place, the clue was always near him, at his home.

“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington’s house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”  (pg.140)

Here we can see what Quentin thinks about the place Margo took him with his clues. Quentin is a wise thinker and how he analyses things about a terrible place, about fear and the feelings that come with it.

What I think that is going to happen in the next chapters is that the clues will lead them to another paper town place and Margo would make harder to find her. Every time this thing of searching for her will be harder but at the end after driving and following all the clues they will finally find Margo.

The To List

Quentin was driving the minivan, both sneak out of their homes and Quentin was doing things he didn’t understand until they got to Publix. Margo gives him a list of things to buy there as cat food, Vaseline, Veet, blue spray paint, and others. Also they go to Walmart to get The Club, an object that blocks car wheels. Quentin didn’t knew what was going on he was just buying things for these eleven thing plan Margo was talking about. And the first task is to prove his ex-boyfriend was cheating on her. She proves it by going to Becca’s house and call his dad making this the second mission the third and fourth task were to put The Club on Jason’s car and hide his clothes left in Becca’s basement. After achieving her first goal, proving she was right, and takes a picture of Jason running half-naked all over the street. The fifth mission was leaving the cat food on Becca’s. The six missions was to leave the dozen of tulips on Karin’s door, another Margo’s friend and the seventh to leave cat food for Mr. Worthington and the eight mission of the night leaving cat food on Lacey’s car that the next morning will stink.

“…life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” (pg. 34)

I believe here the author; John Green is trying to tell everybody is that your parents have your future planned. For being a civilized person you have to go to school, graduate then to collage and have a job and maintain a house or a family this is cycle and then your kids. He wants to show that school and being an educated person is the goal of society and to have a nice life you have to graduate and have a job.

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

My personal reaction to this text is that I agree with it, because you don’t have to choose people because of their face or how they look because their personality is the one that counts.

On the next chapters I believe that Margo will get caught on one of their next missions a she will need to re-create a new strategy for it. Quentin because of that he will stop helping her and he will go home leaving Margo Alone.

Years After Our Friendship

Margo and Quentin were friends, when they were kids they had amazing adventures but one day something shocking happened to them. As always they were playing in the park when they found something unusual, something new… It was a dead body, full of blood, a pale face and his mouth and eyes were opened. After that tragic event they told their parents and the death bod event was told to the 911 people. Know after years Margo and Quentin barely talk each one have their own life, their own friends and their different likes. But after all a night Margo showed up at Quentin window to ask for help and his car, she was all black, it was obvious she doesn’t want to be caught but she was, his dad told him to come back home and Margo did. Minutes passed and she was back at Quentin home, what was wat she wants? Why Margo was so desperate for getting the car and Quentin’s help?

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke,” (pg.8)

Why Margo did say this after watching the dead body? What did she meant? Maybe he was into and didn’t have it, maybe that he tried so much, gave everything of himself but didn’t achieve it. This makes me confuse, makes it hard to understand because Margo’s personality is mysterious, she says things hard to understand, things you have to analyze them well to know what she thinks about someone or something.

“God these days, it’s like living on a fascist dictatorship” (pg.29)

As well Margo’s words, my reaction was wanting to know what they have done to her. Even though she didn’t want it to say to Quentin, the orders she gave were things that showed technically she was on something, maybe revenge but for what?

On the next chapters I think Quentin will know what she wants to achieve why she appeared in his room after years of no talking. He will take her in his minivan to all the places Margo wants and their friendship will recover and will be as when they were kids. Finally I believe that what Margo wants is not only his help but wants his friendship again.