In “Sophie’s World” Sophie ends with a garden party, the party goes strangely awry and it seems that it all strange. The first ridiculous thing that happens is that Alberto, the philosopher, throws firecrackers into the yard, following this he puts a sparkler into the almond cake, not very normal behavior. This could all be explained as just strange until Joanna tries to eat Jeremy and the attack each other with terrifyingly unexpected passion. When Alberto reveals to the party guests that they are all fictional characters (or at least characters in Albert’s book) the logical rational thinking in the party just goes farther away the guests aren’t happy and Sophie’s Mother does not want her to leave at first, right after this Joanna begins to smear cake onto Jeremy’s face and lick it off. Finishing with a religious meaning Sophie mentions how her Garden of Eden is now destroyed, and Alberto answers that she has been driven out. Sophie and Alberto than disappear from Sophie’s den just before they are nearly run over by a Mercedes. The strangeness of the chapter doesn’t seem to fit with the strangeness from other parts of the book, and points to the fact that we may know nothing of our own world.
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