logLOG # 1. In today's reading, did the setting or any of the characters remind you of people or characters in your own personal life? We any of the situations or events similar to your own life? How were they alike and how were they different?
This book is nothing like my life and it isn’t really representing my life because I am not the one who is going up against the king. I am not doing anything radical. I am not doing anything so it really not affected me so I really don’t care. The characters in this book really doesn’t compare to my friends in my life. It is really different because it is that. This is more political rather than more society wise.
LOG # 2. Does this story or its characters remind you of another story you have read? Does it remind you of a movie? How are they alike? And how are they different?
No, it does not because this book is really in dept. It is really deep and it causes us to think. I really don’t read books that cause me to think nor allow it to do it. So really yeah I don’t like these books and I really don’t read them. I read books like Eragon, fantasy books. I like those books because when I read it I am sucked into another dimension.
LOG # 3. If you could change the setting in this story to another setting, what setting would you choose? Would you change just the time period? Or would you change the place, the season, the actual environment-one of poverty, riches, or middle class America? Why would you make those changes?
I would change it Australia because I like Kangaroos. I really like those hip-hoppity mammals. I chose an early time like the 20th century because I don’t like how they talk in the 19th and 18th century. I like my books characters to be in a little touch with the modern world. That’s all would like to change because I really don’t want to meddle in it more.
LOG # 4. If you could change the life or lives of a story character, to make their lives more like the lives of the characters in the book or story you are reading, whose lives would you change? How would you change their lives? Why did you pick these people or that person?
I would change the life of General Utopus because he is kind of a gay man. I really like gay men because they make me uncomfortable. So in a sense I would change him into a straight man.
LOG # 5. If you were to put this story into your own life, in the area where you live, around the people and friends that you know, how would the story have to change? How would the people change? Would the setting have to change? Why would these changes have to take place?
I would put myself in the king’s throne because im rich and I have a jack load of power. I would get rid of who opposes me and I would get rid of all the people who would say badly about me. So in a sense I am really getting rid of everyone that touches my power. I would only give my throne to my son my heir.
LOG # 6. Sometimes we are pulled toward one or two characters in the story. We identify with them or feel sympathy for them. With which characters do you identify in the book, and why do you believe you identify with them?
I feel really sorry for More because he had to go through everything in order to achieve this utopia. He had to really conquer many interests and he had to really keep everything in touch. He had to fight off the bad people like the king and he had to run away so he doesn’t get killed.
LOG # 7. Sometimes when we read, certain words or phrases or images stand out. Maybe they are words or phrases that make an impression because of their sound, or maybe the meaning or image they make strikes us? Sometimes we find words or expressions we just do not understand. Share those that you have come across and describe why you listed them.
I really like the picture of utopia because it really said a lot. It is saying that the world is not kind, but really in the end it is really going to be a helpful place and a very serene place. It is serene because it is saying that it is a very good place full of joy.
LOG # 8. Now that you are this far into the story, what do you look forward to learning next? What conflicts or problems do you think the characters will face? What qualities of your character (honest, loyal, cruel, dishonest, angry, and vengeful) will affect how the character handles the problems and conflicts he or she encounters?
I really want to see how the king deals with all this. You got to admit it is very overwhelming when a person comes up to you and challenges you and your power. He is really challenging your authority. I would be mad at More and his doing. It is like Charles V and martin Luther when he stood up against Charles.
LOG # 9. If you could ask any character a question, what would you ask? If you could ask the author a question, what might that be? Explain why you chose these questions.
If I could ask a character a question, I would ask, why were the Utopians so perfect? And Why did they do what they did, and why did they do so? I simply do not understand why someone would want to live a perfect life, and be good at everything, when obviously; you learn the most from suffering and mistakes. Utopia, ultimately, I think is flawed because it is a perfect society. They have to be perfect and they had to do everything right or they have it all wrong.
LOG # 10. As you read today, what surprised you? Explain how this will affect the story or how it changed your thinking about the story.
As I read today, what surprised me was the boringness of the Utopians. Again and again, they live a perfect life, and live in a perfect society, full of perfect people. I think that this story will never have any conflicts ever and it will be a boring book, with More just wanting to express his want to have a perfect society, eliminating all conflicts, as well as the middle class, and letting communism, and maybe even totalitarianism, in modern times, and the twentieth century, to take over life. It is really saying that they have to really take control and they have overthrown the government.
LOG # 11. When you wish to learn when you read again tomorrow; what do you hope will happen in the story or to the characters? Why do you wish for that to happen?
I want to see how this overthrowing is coming. I want to see how the people reacted and how the forming of utopia is coming along. I really want to see if the things of utopia are going about.
LOG # 12. Are you puzzled or confused about anything in the story? What is it that confuses you, and why do you find it confusing?
I am confused about everything. I think this book is very dull and into deep. It is very hard and it is for adults. I think I am a little to young to read this. It is really hard. This book however has a lot of meaning to it because it is really good.
LOG # 13. It is not unusual to wish that our lives were more like the lives of characters in stories. How would you change your own real life to be more like the world of your story?
Because they have it good I guess. I don’t know their live are hard too. It is going to be challenging and they have to be able to do things or else they have to do other things. They have to do things that are to be perfect.
LOG # 14. Why do you think the author wrote this story? Where did he or she get the idea or the characters? What message do you think that the author is trying to share?
The author wrote this story because they want us to see how to create utopia the land where everything is perfect and how to create this utopia. This utopia is going to be great.
