This week in class we began reading the novel, Sophie's World.
So far, the book follows a 14-year-old girl, Sophie, who started mysteriously receiving letters from an unknown person. The letters have either been questions addressed to Sophie like, "Who are you?" or "Where does the world come from?" or have been written lessons teaching her about the History of Philosophy.
What made me stop and think were the lessons her 'teacher' sent her.
The lessons talked about all kinds of Philosophers and their theories about the world that completely fascinated me. They asked questions that I had never even considered to ask. The whole idea of this novel seems to be to get the reader to stop and really think about these questions as if they're the ones being asked.
I've sometimes wondered about these kinds of questions but they've never consumed me the way that they consumed Sophie's thoughts and actions. They've never gotten in the way of hanging out with my friends or not being able to focus at school like they did to Sophie. (But then again I'm not the one who received mysterious letters questioning who I am from a random person).
But the problem might be exactly that. We all know about these philosophical questions but for whatever reason, they don't interest us. They don't have that wow factor that seems to be affecting Sophie.
This book has already got me thinking philosophically about the questions Sophie is being asked and we're only on the first 50 or so pages of the book. I can't wait to read the rest.
Until next time,
Rachel.
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