Reflections & Connections #2

As I read further and further into Sophie’s World, I become more and more creeped out. Alberto is cool and all, but it seems a little bit off to me that he spends so much time connecting with Sophie about philosophy.  Although he tells her many important things and introduces seemingly basic questions into her life, I just don’t like the fact that he is, for lack of a better term, targeting Sophie. The letters to Hilde and the gold cross underneath her pillow scare me the most. The chances of Sophie receiving Hilde’s letters would be very low, but it doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me that she receives letters addressed to Hilde and from Alberto. I believe that there is virtually no explanation for the letters except for Alberto. If you ask me, he is writing the letters to Hilde and purposefully sending them to Sophie in an attempt to teach her something. On to the cross. Sophie seems to have taken the cross straight out of her dreams, but I know that that is impossible. So, I thought that Alberto had broken into her room and placed the cross under her pillow himself. That would be very creepy and disturbing to me, as a middle-aged man should be no where near a distant 14-year-old girl’s room. However, I then realized that it is impossible for Alberto to have known that she had a dream about the gold cross. Could it be a coincidence? Could he have placed it there without knowing that she had a dream about it? For now I can’t say, but the most probable answer is that Alberto put the ross there.