Final Reflections and Connections

I can easily relate to Hilde because she believes that the characters of her father’s book are real. This is because earlier on in the book, when I did not have the insight that I have now, I thought that Alberto and Sophie were the real main characters.  Even now that I have this further insight that they are just characters of her father’s book, I’m still not sure that Sophie and Alberto are fictional. They could easily be real people in the world of Hilde, just with their lives manipulated by her father. For example, Hilde’s father could have just taken some people from his life, he then could have changed their names to Sophie and Alberto and written a story about them. There’s still a chance that they are real people, even though it is believed that they are not. Some of the events that took place in the book however must be fictional since many of them are impossible. I really enjoyed how in the Darwin chapter Alberto described animals that survive as not the best animals. He compared them to a lottery, saying that we only see the winning numbers, but not the losing numbers. All of the losing numbers could have been the winning ones. This is the same for animals in the world. In an environment that is composed mostly of water, an alligator would most likely be better suited to survive over a tiger. This does not make alligators superior to tigers. The alligator just happened to win the “lottery” by living in an environment composed of mostly water. Had the tiger won the lottery, the environment would be composed of flat land with many trees and bushes and tall grass.