Reflection:

I thought I was starting to get the book, but I’m not sure anymore. I kind of understand that Sophie and Alberto are trying to escape the book, but does that make them real in the book but not real in Hilde’s reality? And if they escape the book do they become real in the real world? It’s hard to wrap my head around sometimes. Alberto seems like he’s really upset with the Major all of a sudden too, which is making Hilde upset with her father, which I think is weird. Why does she care if the made up characters in the book her father wrote are feeling manipulated by him? And she’s thinking about running away because of the book which is pretty ridiculous. That leads back to the whole “are they real” question. Maybe the later chapters will make more sense, but that’s what I thought last time.

Connection:

The philosophers we’ve been learning about recently have really similar ideals. So similar that it’s a little hard to tell the difference between them. A lot of them hated the ideas of the others even though they were pretty much the same thing, and I thought that was pretty interesting. I can’t really say which one I agree with the most. I was never a fan of Locke or Rousseau, or Kierkegaard. I think I’d have to say Hegel makes the most sense, but Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer both hated him. I don’t know why, they all had pretty similar ideas. (Except Schopenhauer, he hated everything)