Sophies World By Jostein Gaarder :: essays research papers

Sophies World is about the biography of a 14 year-old girl called Sophie Amundsen. It takes you on a journey though 3000 years of Western school of thought, presenting important and in most cases annoying forelands.This is the history of philosophy and philosophers given in the volume"A white hare is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick takes galore(postnominal) billions of years. All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbits elegant hairs, where they are in a position to wonder at the impossible action of the trick. But as they grow older they work themselves ever deeper into the fur. And thither they stay. They be begin so comfortable they never risk crawling up the fragile hairs again. Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the unaired softness, stuffing themse lves with delicious food and drink.Ladies and gentlemen, they yell, we are floating in pose But none of the people down there care.What a fate of troublemakers they say. And keep on chatting Would you pass the butter please? How much brace our stocks risen today? What is the price of tomatoes?"Some of the questions raised includewhy are we here? Is there a God? Where does the world come from?This book attempts to tell you what people in the past have thought, fusing the historical side with the story itself.Sophie is taking a course in philosophy from Alberto Knox. Together they are trying to find their own answers to the questions so important to mankind. Then Sophie begins to receive postcards addressed to Hilde. But who is Hilde? And why are the postcards macrocosm sent care of Sophie? Coupled with the course in philosophy, Sophie and Alberto begin to question their very existence. Sophie finds a book about herself in a book about herself, and things seem to fall into pl ace. Does the world Sophie and all her friends live in exist at all, or is it just in someones imagination or even in a book?