The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth, a story changing the hearts of many. A magical/fantasy tale of a young boy possibly the same age as me learning the best of life from taking a journey in an imaginary world. So many questions began to fill my mind, how id the phantom tollbooth get in his house but most of all what is so important the Character Milo and why the author Norton Juster, decided to have Milo a boring kid who always thinks the opposite, when at home he always wants to be in school, when home he wants to be home. WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT MILO.

I discovered the Phantom Tollbooth when i was 8. When i was 8, thought the book was going to be about aboy who finds a Tollbooth in a circus and from there on it changes his life. I was completely wrong. The book had changed my way of thinking, it made me feel that monsters and wizards exactly exsited somewhere we couldnt find them and one day i would. Sometimes i got confused why friends and family in the real world didnt realize Milo was gone far away from them, but what i did not know was that time had never changed as if it was frozen.

In the Book, Milo discovers a tollbooth in his living room, since Milo was lonely and had nothing to do, he hops in a toy car and goes in the tollbooth and finds himself in the land of expectations. Meeting new people and things like The Wheter Man, who sort of is like the geese in Charlottes Web. Some other people were the Mathemagcian and King Azaz-the ruler of Dictionopolis. While in Dictionopolis, King Azaz told Milo to go on a dangerous a journey, a journey to find Rhyme and Reason. Rhyme and Reason are the step sisters of the Mathemagician and King Azaz. One day the brothers got andry at eachother saying numbers were better than words or words were better than numbers. The brothers asked the sisters Rhyme and Reason which was better. Though the sister gave a horrible answer saying that they were equal, the brothers were made at their sisters and banished them to the dungeon in the sky. King Azaz thought was he did was wrong and i say again sent Milo to go search fro them. While to go find Rhyme and Reason, he learns new things and the good things in life like words, numbers, family. and more.

In conclusion after bringing Rhyme and Reason back, Milo is a changed person, and then in a blick of an eye after he saide goodbye he was back home with a note that said "for Milo who now knows the way". I knew why the author chose Milo as a boring lonely kid. It was to awaken the lazy mind Milo had by making him go on a journey to learn better things from the people in the land of expectations. After Milo had said " there is to much to do here" i was blown away. The Phantom Tollbooth worked as magic.