How does sophies world end

She suddenly became aware of the mess surrounding her. Books and Ring Binders lay scattered on the floor… The closet had seven shelves. One for underwear, one for socks and tights, one for jeans. Even after reading the book, I can not pin it to one genre. I believe this is on purpose as the book mentions everything is also its opposite.

This book will get you thinking. You will take a philosophical journey through the centuries until you catch up to the 20th century. It happened to me. While I read this book, a random question popped into my mind.

How does our body know how to move. We think to ourselves we want food. So we move towards the fridge and open the door. But how does our body know how and what to move? My internal dialogue never thinks about the details:. I never hear this in my brain. Imagine if that is how it did work. As we have grown, we ignore things that have become mundane to us.

We drop a ball and we expect it to fall. The knowledge of this we call science and natural law. This never say never mindset is necessary for the reader because the ending is so implausible in comparison with what society knows to be true about life. The philosophy teacher also tells Sophie that philosophers must accept that they know nothing or they will never learn anything.

This mindset also applies to the ending because nothing that Sophie knew was real because she really did not exist. When she accepted that nothing she knew was real, she was able to realize what was really happening.

The story does what is sets out to do which is provoke philosophical thought in people. Alberto is less hopeful and ambitious, but he respects Sophie for trying to interact with Albert and Hilde. The Nature of Reality. We cut back to Hilde and Albert. Albert points up at the stars and tells Hilde that once, long ago, all matter was exactly the same—hot and concentrated in the center of the universe. Now, there are many different kinds of matter, strewn all over the universe.

This information parallels the Darwinian paradigm shift—the idea that all life forms are connected since they come from the same DNA molecules. Modern science has generalized this concept to say that all matter comes from the same places. Once again, Sophie tries to change the material world, even after her former tutor, Alberto, has given up. Related Quotes with Explanations. Albertremembers the night before her left for Lebanon—this was the night he first decided to write Hilde a philosophy book.

As they talk, Hilde notices that their rowboat has come loose of its moorings. She wonders if Sophie and Alberto might have caused this. Sophie appears to have succeeded in moving the rowboat, even though Alberto insists that such a thing is logically impossible. Sophie, for her part, has experienced her own coming of age by studying philosophy. Cite This Page.

In the end it's the author who does things because Sophie and Alberto want them too. Maybe Hilde and Albert Knag go into the lake together and die? It remains a question and maybe that's just the point of it. Apr 10, AM.

Agreed Paprika. I think the whole book was to give you a background in philosophy, and then make you wonder, as a philosopher does. May 01, AM. I think i need to read it again. Thx for reminding me about it May 05, PM.