Application

Here's the other application I owe you. I'm not really sure what the author wanted me to get from this book besides philosophy. I gues one theme can be not to believe everything right off the bat because things aren't always what they seem. Another theme could be that we shouldn't let age remove curiosity, with the philosophers being the ones climbing up the rabbit hair and the people who aren't curious nestled in. From this class I learned the wide variety of ideas about life that emerged over time. I still don't really believe in evolution, I do think we learn from experience but we still also have instincts, and I hope that one day I get to do all of the items on the bucket list you had us create. All in all philosophy and this book taught me that there are so many ways to look at things in this life- and I appreciate the fact that this class touches on a lot of subjects that haven't been discussed in school before, but that which I think are just as important as calculus and history and economics and such. We're all kind of like Sophie in a sense and you're kind of like Alberto because you showed us all the philosophers and posed questions to us to get us to find the answers to all of those philosophical questions- maybe that makes you a little more like Socrates or something since he was the one with the questions, plus he was actually a real person.

Reflection

Alright so I feel like I owe you another reflection and another application blog, so here they are. I'm just gonna talk about the rest of the book because I'm not certain what part these two were originally meant to be for. After "Garden Party" I was very very interested in finding out what would become of Alberto and Sophie. Are book characters allowed to leave books? And how does Hilde's dad not know about the plan to escape? I also considered the idea that no one is real and even Hilde and her father are a figment of someone's imagination and that is how Alberto and Sophie can get 'out'. Because they aren't really out they're just on something like a higher level in this imaginary world. Maybe it's all the real author's world within a world. I kinda tied it back to something like inception where there were different levels within levels with the dreaming. How does anybody know they're real or the world that they are living in really exists. Hilde is basically in the same place that Sophie was in at the beginning. We don't know whether she's even real or not. This brings me to the fact that Sophie and Alberto can't even speak to people a level up. Maybe people in alternate universes are unable to really interact, but then again how does Hilde's dad affect Sophie's world? That's one question that I asked myself for a while- where did Hilde's dad acquire the power to control this whole thing anyway? Certainly everyone in Hilde's world is not able to create little crazy worlds in books.

Application

Alright so once you commented that you wanted me to mix in a little more philosophy in this. I'm very sorry about that because then I was just blindly blogging because you told us to do it. Anywho I will connect the book to my life and the class with existentialism. I think that talking about that subject kind of made everything come full circle because the two starting questions in the book were something lik "Who am I?" And "why am I here?". Sometimes I ask myself these questions when I'm at school, but it never goes as deep as Sophie and Alberto take it. Also at the beginning of the class you asked us a series of questions that were similar to what Sophie was asked, they all had to do with questioning our purpose here on earth and our existence. I think what I took away from the existentialism lesson is just that everybody is responsible for their own feelings- it doesn't matter that we didn't ask to be created, we're here now and we must make the best of it. Everybody has different ideas of who they are, where they came from, morals, and their purpose, but those are things we must figure out for ourselves. We get to choose to believe in whatever we want. There are hundreds of philosophers out there with thousands of different ideas of the answers to life- but I hknestly learned that no one has that one golden key. Even in our class when topics came up the responses we gave in our contained little environment varied so much; so that's how connect the book, learning, Kierkegaard, philosophy, and everything with my own life.

Reflection
Okay so I think that The last parts of the book that we read were pretty interesting because I wasn't sure whether to believe that Hilde was the real person and Sophie wasn't before that but then when she had the garden party and everything it kind of made sense  because the way that the parents were reacting and then the thing where the car was driven onto the lawn and all that beer was at like her philosophical party it kind of hit home that Sophie wasn't living in reality. So I really hate Hilde's dad. On top of all that like I really did hate the book and I'm not done with that I have like I guess I will talk to love but I think that it improves a little bit when philosophers stop talking about philosophy so much in the middle of all this nonsense and it all started to make sense my real question is what is wrong with this author like I know this is supposed to be about philosophy that is supposed to teach us about philosophy do you have to have like some serious problems to make up stories like this. Feel like the author is crazy or something because I would never be able to come up with such a convoluted story about philosophy and Sophie and multiple universes and everything of that nature. I'm just really glad to be basically done with this book because like you got those kind of made my brain hurt and all the cartoon characters in there they're really make sense to me because shouldn't they be like plagiarism charges or something like I know Mr W you explained it to me but what in the world?all of those cartoon characters being in the book just made me feel like the author was being lazy couldn't come up with his own plots or her own plot so she ripped off Disney and other classic stories to add more content. However, I guess I can't complain because I feel like that's probably what I'm doing right now and it's probably what I do on my essays usually when I don't know what else to say maybe adding irrelevant things just to get to the word counts. I'm actually not doing it right now though because I feel like I make a lot more sense than the author.