Sophie's World: A Novel About The History Of Philosophy By Jostein Gaarder

Sophie’s World is a novel about the History of Philosophy written by Jostein Gaarder, a former Norwegian high school philosophy teacher. Though the book was written and created by the author with the purpose of reaching up to these young minds by means of sharing his thoughts and ideas regarding to the history of philosophy, adults made Sophie’s World viral due to the wide imagination the book caused them to have. It was translated to fifty nine languages and has sold an estimated 40 million copies as of 2011. Gaarder’s work covered the exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, from pre Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre. Sophie’s World is a work of fiction. It is a story of a 14 year old girl from
She finally learned the name of her philosophy teacher, Alberto Knox that said to give his message through a Labrador, Hermes. Sophie received a videotape that contained Alberto in Athens and somehow, he took her with him to speak with Socrates and Plato. This event made her confusion continue to grow due to the fact that she cannot figure out what is going on. After thinking the questions that Plato asked her and reading about Plato she followed Hermes into the woods. There she found the red cabin in where Alberto and Hermes lived. While in front of the mirror, the girl in the mirror winked with both eyes causing her to be frightened that she grabbed the green wallet, which has a hundred-crowned note, a fifty, and the school I.D. card of Hilde Moller Knag, and the brown envelope with the Plato pages. That afternoon, she received a package that contained a lesson about Aristotle, a student of Plato that believed in the eternal ideas in our mind but it comes from the natural world. Alberto said that he was neither angry nor upset with her but they have to
It says that she must have known why he has to send the postcard through Sophie. At this time, she felt that there was something really wrong that she cannot understand. That Wednesday, Jhoanna together with Sophie, went to the major’s cabin and saw the postcards that were addressed to Hilde from her father. It says that Hilde must be prepared for she will meet her soon. Another strange postcard was given to her that has a message “week or two for Sophie does not have to mean just as long for us.” At that time, Albert Knox finally decided to meet with Sophie at the church. Sophie’s World is a good book for starters in the course of philosophy. The story goes mysteriously that you cannot imagine what the ending will be. The way the author wrote his novel was very informative that you can easily grasp what he was trying to say. It was a mind blowing and a very imaginative novel. The story is a cliff hanger. There were questions in my mind that were not answered in the story yet I think that it was a style of the author to leave us with something to think