Utopia- Book 1

The first book of Utopia, was a really slow reading, it kind of just dragged on for me! It never picked up and got interseting, it was just all a background story, and setting us up for Book 2. I thought that Book 1, could have been shortened by ALOT!! I mean, some information was useful to the story, about the argument the three guys had on what they did with thiefs and if that was an appropriate punishment! But I think that this could have been shortened to maybe a couple paragraphs as an introduction to Book 2...and not have a Book 1 & Book 2.

There was a couple of arguments in Book 1, about the way the country was ran, compared to what Rapheal had seen in Utopia. The first argument was about the punishment for stealing that they had in their country, if you were caught stealing you would be put to death! Which I think is ridicolous, think if we had that implemented today in our country...do you know how much violence and crimes would go up, because if you were put to death for stealing, you might as well do something really bad, like killing!!!

Another argument the guys had was whether Rapheal should go tell the King everything he saw in Utopia. The other 2 guys thought that Rapheal should tell the King the "solutions" he saw and his ideas. But Rapheal is against it, because he is afraid the King wouldn't like his ideas, and could be punished becuase they weren't liked or approved! Now in our times, people say whatever they feel could help with our country, unless it gets to out of hand, and violent, people are allowed to say whatever they feel, whenever they feel it. I couldn't even think of being afraid of going to the "King" (or in our case, the President) to tell him my ideas. It must be kind of like torture for them, because they know that what they have to say can help, but they won't say it, because the King doesn't always listen or take people's advice, even if it is good advice and will help.