Analysis Of Sophie's World By Jostein Gaarder

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder is quite interesting. Although it contains a plot with Sophie receiving letters, a lot of the story is just philosophical questions being asked. Sophie’s World is about a young girl named Sophie who receives letters from some mysterious figure. These letters cause her to question everything about her life, and to dig deeper into the meaning of the world. She meets Hermes, who is the dog who has been delivering these messages to her. She follows the dog back to a warehouse one day but doesn't find anyone. She finds out that the person sending her letter is named Alberto and he meant to send the letters to his daughter Hilde instead of Sophie. Meanwhile Sophie’s birthday is coming up and she wants her mother to throw her a philosophy themed party. This book speaks a lot on fate, different cultures, and ancient philosophers such as Hegel. The fate chapters addresses these three sentences by telling us what Sophie thinks as she reads the questions. The first question is do you believe in Fate. Sophie sees this and thinks about people who believe in superstitions. Superstitions basically say that you can’t control what’s going to happen similar to fate. The second question was is sickness punishment of the gods. Sophie decides that when people pray to gods to help heal …show more content…
It is the only way to become more than a naked ape” (161). When this is said it is reference to the fact that we must known the history of the world. If you don’t known all of the history that has come before you than it is like you are only receiving history of stuff that has happened in your personal life. This is not enough to really wrap your head around all that has happened in the world. When you learn the history of all cultures you can see where people have gone wrong and what people have done correctly. This allows you to be wiser and make sound