Prompt 1

  In the first chapter of the book, the main character, Sophie, begins receiving letters from a mysterious person. The letter does not have a returning address and it does not have a stamp either--leaving Sophie with no way of knowing who had sent it to her. The first letter that Sophie receives says nothing except the simple question: who are you? It is not until a few days later that she finds another letter that says: where does the world come from?

  Sophie ponders these questions to no end much like the book caused me to do. When asking myself the question "who are you", I find it kind of hard to just simply come up with an answer. I am a teenager who goes to school and has friends and goals for my life. I wonder about the future and what I will be doing one day. It does not seem like there is much that sets me apart from other people my age but when you really think about it, there is no one else exactly like you. Even if I have the same interests as a lot of my friends and people my age, there is no one exactly like me. 

  Thinking about where the world came from isn't as big of a question to me. Growing up in a Christian family, I have always been taught that God created the world and everything in it. Although the book did make me put more thought into other possibilities of how the world came to be, I still believe that God created everything. It is a very amazing thing to think that one being created all of this world and all of man out of nothing.