You are only allowed to ask one question so I have had to
edit it down. In Chapter 15 it is certain that we meet a very different Sophie compared
to the last time David saw her as a young girl. What is revealing to my mind is the
conversation she has with David, which expresses what has happened to her has a
"deviant" and how her life has been lived. This comment from Sophie is particularly
poignant:
"To
be any kind of deviant is to be hurt - always," she
said.
This expresses some of
the pain that Sophie has suffered, and we go on to find out that she has been
sterilised, which she thinks is a fate worse than death, especially because now she is
in love with "the spider-man" and wants to give him
babies.
However, perhaps the biggest change comes at the
end of the chapter, when Sophie kills a Fringes guard to release Rosalind and Petra with
little compunction. Note the final paragraph of the
chapter:
Rosalind, and Petra too, watched silently in
horrid fascination as Sophie scooped a bowlful of water from the bucket to
wash the blood off her arms and clean the
knife.
Having been treated
so unjustly by the powers of Waknuk, Sophie herself has become harder and capable of
violence. Very little appears to be left of the childhood friend that David said goodbye
to so long ago.
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