Author: Jostein Gaarder
Genre: history/Mystery
Pages: 507
Sophie's world is a fantastic book! This novel talkes about philosophy but the best part is that it isnt a bunch of facts thrown at you it has a story with philosophy in it.
So the story goes like this. Sophie a small 12 year old girl, opened the mail box one day and flicked threw the letters and suprisingly one of the letters were for her. The letter had no stamp and had no name adressing who had sent it. Later that day she found 2 more letters. All three had intresting questions or suprising things to say, The first one asked " Who are you? The second asked where does the world come from and the third was a birthday note adressed to Hilde Moller Knag and Sophie. All three made her made her think really hard, how is it that she didnt even know who she was or where the world came from and who the heck is Hilde Moller Knag and Who is sending these messages? Her mind was boggled with tons of ideas. The mysterious letter sender kept sending messages but not with questions any more but with lessons of philosophy.
This book really makes me think. The biggest thing that really affected me and made me realize is that people are so used to the magnificent things of the world that they don't really appreciate them. For example the shape of snow or how snow falls. I took this to a test against my parents. I found it just amazing that the tea bag spread its color and taste in the water, so i said my dad, " Dad look isn't this really awesome how the bag spreads its color and taste". He said " wow, that cool". Now you see he said the things you want to hear but the way he said it wasn't so convincing. Try this with your parents, you will see the mysterious philosopher was correct.
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