what is sophie story

Sophie is the thirteen-year-old protagonist and narrator of the novel. In the opening chapters, she describes herself as "three-sided Sophie." One side is dreamy and romantic, particularly when discussing her relationship with the sea, one side is logical and down-to-earth, and one side is hard-headed and impulsive. At the opening of the novel, thirteen-year-old Sophie begins by writing about her love for the sea and describing a vivid nightmare she has about a giant black wave coming to consume her. This love/fear is central to the mystery surrounding Sophie's character, and history, throughout the novel. Sophie has fought her way onto the family's sail boat The Wanderer for a cross-country trip to visit her Grandfather, Bompie, who lives in England. As the novel progresses, the reader learns that this family is not Sophie's blood family but her adoptive family - she was adopted three years earlier - and that no one really knows the truth of what happened to Sophie's real parents. Sophie herself doesn't even acknowledge that she had other parents and refuses to talk about being adopted, much to the consternation of her two curious cousins, Brian and Cody. When Sophie first arrives on the boat, she struggles to figure out where she belongs and often feels as if the men with whom she's traveling treat her differently because she's a girl. In time, however, she learns to adapt to the motto of being part of a team, and is able to showcase her strengths as a sailor without overshadowing the rest of her team. As the novel progresses, Sophie continues to struggle with accepting the dark truth of her past, and it is finally revealed that Sophie's parents were both killed during a terrible storm when she was a child. They had bundled her into the safety of a floating dingy and she watched in horror as a massive black wave consumed their ship. Since being adopted into a loving family, Sophie has fought against these painful memories so she can appear normal. There are some good memories of her childhood, however, such as the memory of going clamming with her first grandfather, and Cody teaches Sophie that it's okay to remember these good times even if they go hand-in-hand with painful ones. By the end of the novel, Sophie has found her place in her new family and has accepted that her traumatic childhood helped shaped her into the strong young woman she is today.