Reaction to Sophie's World
Wow. These last final chapters have been nothing less than confusing. We learn that Sophie and Alberto are figures of Albert's imagination. Sophie's world is a book not made for Sophie but for Hilde, written by her father. Its confusing though because it's like there is a book inside of a book. We think we are reading a story about Sophie, but really we are reading about Hilde reading about Sophie. I'm still not exactly sure of what to make of what I just read, but I am glad that it's over. The book was good but it was starting to get too confusing and there were too many unanswered questions, there still are so many unanswered questions. I need some answers before I can put this book down for a final time.
Applying Philosophy to Real Life
I have seen "In Time" before, and it is one of my favorite movies. I find the concept behind it so interesting. People always say "time is money", and in this case it truly is. Time is more than just money in this movie though, it also is a measure of how much time you have left on this earth. I think it would be interesting if everyone had to live as a person in the "ghetto" for a day,not knowing whether or not they would get extra time before their limited clock ones out... how many people would turn to violence to gain time? Who would work, hoping to make some money(time) to extend their time(lives)? Who would go out and try something new, spend their last hours doing something on their bucket list? Another interesting point brought up in our conversation after watching the movie was how we never saw a middle class. There were a lot of time zones so you would assume there would be a middle class but we were only shown the ghetto and then Greenwich. How does the middle class live? Are they always checking their clocks, or do they live pretty comfortably?
