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.