One again a correction: this is the final connection Blog! As I did in the reflection blog post, I am going to discuss the book as a whole since I discussed the final chapter last time. The novel Sophie's World is full of connections to the real world and to class. Everything we read in the novel usually connected to our cirriculum exactly, including philosophical ideas, philosophers, philosophical systems and stories, and more. In regards to the real world, the novel talked about many things that relate to society and life on Earth. Some of these things include; fate versus freewill, the great religion debate, are we really real, life and death, seize the day, and much, much more. To pick one connection specifically, I will choose Seize the day! (Carpe Dium), since we discussed it in class this week.I don't entirely believe in this way of thinking, because I believe the future is just as important as the present. Sure, you don't want to suffer today just to be maybe be happy days from now, but I do think that you can't just relax and be happy today because then you won't tomorrow. I believe that a mixture of pleasure today and work today will lead to a prosperous and pleasurable tomorrow! This connects to the real world, because many people will work way too hard today in order for the better tomorrow. Some people will work there life away and miss many experiences. However on the other hand, some people don't work enough at all, which leads to never being able to truly be stress free or relaxed. I'd say the way to live is by the wise words of the greatest philosopher of all time.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!" - Ferris Buelher
In the end, a mixture of work for the future and fun today is what I believe is the key to happiness. All in all, our class and our novel had many connections to the real world throughout the year, and it has opened my eyes to many ideas that affect myself and the world.

Correction from my last reflection post: here it actually is, the last reflection blog post! Since I accidentally read ahead and discussed the final chapters in my last reflection post, I will reflect on the entire novel, now that I am finished. As a whole, I would say the book was... interesting. As you told us in the beggining, there were indeed many bizarre parts. From Sophie reading messages on bananas to  meeting character like Alladin. Very strange, but also very interesting. The novel taught me a lot about some of the most influential philosophers of all time and put many philosophical ideas into an interesting perspective. It helped me understand romanticism, the Renessaince, Berkeley, and much more. I guess I would say I enjoyed it to an extent; some chapters I loved and others were either too strange or too confusing, but as a whole it was pretty good and definitely helpful. My favorite moment was without a doubt when we discovered that Sophie was not real! It was a great chapter, because it just acted as if it was normal that we were now following Hilde. When I got my epiphany that Sophie was a literary character in hilde's father's book, I both laughed and was in awe. It was quite a twist and was also very entertaining. Plus, if led to some fun conversations in class the next day (but isn't Hilde also fake because we are reading about her in a book? Are we just character in a book? And so on.) As I said, when I reflect back, what comes to mind is interesting, entertaining, one of a kind, and definatley, one hundred percent bizarre! It was both a fun book and a fun class!