My apologies for how long it's been since I've posted:
At this point in "Sophie's World", Sophie just got the banana peel letter. I'll be honest, things have been screwed up for a long while now. Most physical laws have been bent or broken by this point in the novel, and Albert seems to be playing with Sophie and Alberto.
However, what I find interesting about this book is the parallelism that the story shares with the philosophies being taught (with some rare exceptions). In this chapter, we're discussing Hume. In the narrative, Sophie is instinctively trusting Alberto, even in a world where we now realize that nothing is truly real (or is it?).
If you think about it, she's been doing this for a while now, too. Ever since the very beginning, she's been reading these letters, watching these videos, all (at the time) from a man she had never met. Any normal person would have ignored the letters until they went away.
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