How Is The Motel Room Used In Sophie's World

A Window to the Outside World In Sophie’s World, the author takes the reader through a strange series of drawing out the events surrounding a girl’s life. In “The Human Condition”, Howard Nemerov paints this graphic image of a man inside a motel room living his life without contact to the outside world except through the window in his motel room. Both works of literature have similar images that portray parallel meanings. The mailbox in which Sophie receives her mail from a philosopher in Sophie’s World can in a way relate to the television that provides the audience with a glimpse into the motel room described in “The Human Condition.” These images and other literary devices draw a similar theme across these works of prose and poetry.
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The author uses staunch imagery to paint a picture in the reader’s mind of what the room is like, what the author is feeling, and what they are experiencing inside of the aforementioned motel room. The window and the television are the only direct connections the person in the motel room has with the outside world, likewise Sophie connects with her mentor solely through her mailbox. In his poem, Nemerov speaks about how important it is to orient himself in reality by saying, “Nothing could be more useful to a man than knowing where he's at, and I don't know, but pace the day in doubt between my looking in and looking out” (Nemerov). This quote tells the reader that inside of this motel room, the speaker does not know where he is in a realistic sense such as time, location, or date. The author references the window when he says “looking in and looking out” as if this window is the sole connection he has to the life beyond the walls of the room that he is