Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Here it is, the final reflection blog of Honors Philosophy. For my final entry, I am going to discuss the final chapters of Sophie's World. The final chapters were quite bizarre to say the least. Sophie and Alberto know they are a part of the book and that they are not real people, however they still try to live a real life. Though they escape harm through chaos, they go on an all out quest to become real, which results in failure. Though Sophie is sad that she is not real, she comes to understand that she and Alberto can still live in their world forever! And they can still somehow interfere with the real world. As all of this is going on in Sophie's world, Hilde and her father discuss the novel. Hilde feels that she had missed something because of the strange way in which it ended, but her father and her laugh it off. Then, her father explains how the Big Bang started everything and connects us all (the Big Bang is a common and widely accepted theory of the beginning of the universe). This is where Alberto gets the idea that they are in fact real, just in a different way, because the Big Bang creates and connects everything. Though they are in separate worlds, Sophie can still interfere with Hilde and Hilde still feels a connection to Sophie. Hilde hears sounds that Sophie and Alberto create, Sophie hits Hilde in the face with a wrench and Hilde feels a sharp stinging pain, and Sophie and Alberto let Hilde's rowboat loose (which is funny because Hilde's father jokingly blames Sophie!). Though all of these events were very strange and somewhat confusing to me, I found much of it interesting. If Sophie and Alberto are nothing but literary characters how can they connect and interfere with a Hilde? Maybe her father was a magical writer, maybe they are somehow real (like Alberto's idea) or maybe Hilde's world is fake as well. We know Hilde is a literary character but does she know? Are we nothing but characters? Who knows. All of this was bizarre, but I enjoyed to random and abnormal ending to Sophie's World.

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