Sophie's World - 3

In the book Sophie's World there are several points at which Sophie somehow obtains something that previously belonged to Hilde. At one point Sophie finds Hilde’s scarf, at another Hilde’s ten crowns, and at yet another point Sophie finds Hilde’s gold crucifix. There are many strange and mysterious things that circulate around these items, and this is only accented by the fact that Alberto, our mysterious philosopher, seems to know all the answers but won’t reveal anything concrete or straightforward.

In the section “History and Medicine” Sophie finds Hilde’s scarf under her bed in her room. This is very confusing but before the question of what does it resemble in the book came to mind there was the moderately prominent question of “how the heck did the scarf get there in the first place?” Latter in the novel Alberto explains that the reason the scarf is there is due to the fact “sometimes personal property gets mixed up. Especially at school…, and this is a philosophy school”, what does that mean? Well obviously he has to be full of something, whether you want to call it philosophy is for another time and place though. While this seems kind of a cute thing to say, it’s defiantly creepy, especially from an older man that uses a dog to deliver his philosophy lessons. A ways later in the book we learn that Alberto put the scarf under Sophie’s bed, which raises a question of not only how he got into her house but if that is too questionable thing for him to do if he does it in good intent. Later still in the novel we discover that the crucifix was “sent” to Sophie by Albert Knag through some unknown means. When Alberto discovers this he flips, being a little over dramatic. But it raises a point about why Alberto took it so drastically, it could be that when Albert exercised his power it made Alberto feel inferior or unprotected, which would make sense. But there is also a possibility of a connection to the fact that they have very similar names, Alberto Knox and Albert Knag. They could be some pair of feuding philosophical deities who are training young children for an all out philosophical cage match, or it could be that they are supposed to represent two drastically different views of philosophy, either past versus present or something like Cynics versus Stoics. But the connections are still forming and while defiantly confusing, they are getting clearer and more frustratingly difficult to logically connect. But then again what is logic but what most philosophy is based off of.