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1.TITLE: THE WORLD OF SOFIA

• AUTHOR: Jostein Gaarder: (Oslo 1952) Become one of the world's most successful authors with the world of Sofia, he was professor of philosophy and history. In 1990 he received the National Prize for Literary Criticism from the Ministry of Social and Scientific Affairs for his novel The Ministry of Solitaire, which in the following year received the European Prize for Youth Literature.

• EPOCA: The date of the original publication (1991) I read 30 pages

2. LITERARY GENRE: Philosophical novel.

3.POINT OF VIEW: The book is narrated by Erik Gustavson who has directed 6 feature films since 1985.

4. TOPIC AND ARGUMENTATION: Sofia Amundsen She was a 14-year-old girl with a normal and ordinary life, one day when she returned from school with her friend Jorunn opened the mailbox in which there were always letters from programs, envelopes for her mother or letters from the bank for her father. But that day was not like that, that day there was only a small letter in the mailbox and it was for her. When I opened it, there was only a little note saying who are you? He did not put anything else. Sofia was very confused and began to ask herself about who she was, to the point of looking in the mirror and talking to herself, but when she didn't get anything she decided to go to the mailbox, when she looked at it there was another envelope with her name it was the same as the first one only this said where does the world come from? The mysterious letters had stunned her, she was trying to solve the enigmas of the two letters. Who had ripped Sofia out of the ordinary to suddenly put her before the great enigmas of the universe? for the third time there were several letters and

magazines from his mother, there was also a postcard with a photo of a southern beach. He turned the postcard over, it had a Norwegian stamp that read "united nations battalion" Sofia noted the recipient's name: Hilde Moller knag. He had his home address on the postcard congratulating Hilde on his fifteenth birthday and it was from Hilde's father. Sofia wondered who Hilde was and why the letter came to her. She was sure that the three puzzles were related to each other, because just that day she had had a completely normal life. When she left the institute, Joruun asked Sofia why she was so distant, to which Sofia did not want to answer and Joruun was angry When Sofia got home, she opened her mailbox again; he saw some big yellow envelopes that said philosophy course, be very careful; Sofia ran out to her garden to read the envelope, there were three large typewritten sheets attached by a clip. Sofia began to read, all the reading was about the philosophy in which she referred to the origin of the universe and of some Greek philosophers. Apparently he or she, the one who wrote the letters, thought that Sofia could be a great philosopher and would start to give her some courses to reinforce her totally free. 5. characters: • Sofia: She is a girl who, when she returns from her school, finds in her mailbox a letter in the letter asking if she wants to take a correspondence philosophy course. • Hilde: It is to whom her father is supposed to send letters • Albert knag: Hilde's father • Joruun: She is a friend of Sofia who at first does not understand the change of character of S

6. THE STYLE: The feature of the book is philosophy since it talks about the Greek philosophers well known by the world and gives us a brief overview of their theories about the life of matter and reality. Some phrases that I liked: • He who does not know how to keep his accounts for three thousand years remains as an ignorant in the dark. • After all, something had to come up at some point where there was nothing at all. • Everything that exists must have had a beginning. • Wasn't it sad that most people had to get sick to realize how nice it is to live?

• The only thing we need to become good philosophers is the capacity for wonder ... • We know that the world is not cheating or deception, since we ourselves walk the earth forming a part of it. 7. INTERPRETATION:

I consider that this book wants to give us to understand many things about the origin of life, about looking for our own identity and knowing a little about the world of philosophy and that at the same time the protagonist, that is, Sofia, feeds on this knowledge and learns how to apply universal ideas and if it is not a moral.

8. PERSONAL ASSESSMENT:

From what little I have taken from the book, the truth seemed excellent to me at first, it seemed very boring because it was about philosophy, but as I went further I realized that the author tries to explain philosophy in a fun and simple way, in the which young people are interested a little more about the origin of life and some phrases of the greatest and best known philosophers in the world....