Sophie’s World is all about a girl learning about a philosophy from a mysterious person. Sophie starts to receive strange letters with no address in the mail. These letters are from an unidentified person, who wishes to teach Sophie about philosophy. As she reads more and more, the people and things around her begin to seem more trivial. With different people pushing her in more and more directions, she begins to think more deeply about things, and with every letter and lesson she asks the answer to more questions about who she is and what the world is around her.
In the chapter titled “Fate” Sophie is asked some very hard questions. She tries to answer using reason and logic about what other people believed. She concluded that every person has their own thought about fate. Sophie also concluded that if people didn’t govern themselves, and history and the …show more content…
The purpose of history is to show us our past mistakes and successes. History shows how our ancestors responded to situations, and history tends to repeat itself, only in different forms. We learned from the Treaty of Versailles that if you create an economic and power vacuum in a country, evil will take root. The depression caused by the Treaty of Versailles in Germany led to the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler. After World War II, the United States should have learned that lesson, but even if we did, we did not act on it. When the U.S. killed Osama Bin Laden, and dismantled a large part of the leadership of Al Qaeda, we left a power vacuum. The leaders of the U.S. almost immediately began to pull troops out, which led to the rise of ISIS. History should serve to teach us how to act in situations, but when the names and the places change, our egos get a hold of us and we think we can try the exact same thing, and it will work this time. History has a purpose, but people make that purpose blurred and
In the chapter titled “Fate” Sophie is asked some very hard questions. She tries to answer using reason and logic about what other people believed. She concluded that every person has their own thought about fate. Sophie also concluded that if people didn’t govern themselves, and history and the …show more content…
The purpose of history is to show us our past mistakes and successes. History shows how our ancestors responded to situations, and history tends to repeat itself, only in different forms. We learned from the Treaty of Versailles that if you create an economic and power vacuum in a country, evil will take root. The depression caused by the Treaty of Versailles in Germany led to the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler. After World War II, the United States should have learned that lesson, but even if we did, we did not act on it. When the U.S. killed Osama Bin Laden, and dismantled a large part of the leadership of Al Qaeda, we left a power vacuum. The leaders of the U.S. almost immediately began to pull troops out, which led to the rise of ISIS. History should serve to teach us how to act in situations, but when the names and the places change, our egos get a hold of us and we think we can try the exact same thing, and it will work this time. History has a purpose, but people make that purpose blurred and