How Does Milo Change In The Phantom Tollbooth

The only distinct change that he goes through is a change from being alive to being dead. He does not know he has changed. I believe that this is a form of dramatic irony. The feeling of being scared to die is Lavender's antagonist.

Change in character does not come out of nowhere, but from the factors that are surrounding and involving around them. In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, the antagonist, Elijah experiences changes while he sets off to war. He loses his Native identity and his friendship with Xavier. Thus, it’ll become evident that Elijah’s gradual loss of identity comes from a number of experiences. The changes are due to going to residential schools, journey through war, and his addiction to morphine.

Growing up is a journey, to be specific it 's a journey in a maze. We go around in different directions in hopes to find out who we indeed are. Left to right in every direction we run into things that change our mindset and by the end of the maze, we are entirely different people. Most mazes have doors; open one door new beginning, shut another end of that chapter. Specific events in life alter our young minds, and we tend to grow from these experiences. Personal and social encounters come our way and turn us into adults. Milkman in the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison goes through various incitements and awakenings that force him to change his ways and enhance his

This is similar to what happened to Krebs in Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”. Krebs has returned home to find that it is not that everybody and the world around him has changed, but he was the one that had changed. He has fought in some of the worst wars there were and he didn’t want to come back home. Krebs dreaded coming back to the states, and would have preferred to stay overseas. Krebs was once used to a normal life. He went to a Christian school and was a part of a fraternity. His perception on life had changed drastically after enlisting in the military and fighting in a war. When he returned home, the girls that he saw on the street were the same as when he was there years ago. His father still parks his car in the same spot day in and day out. His mother tries to encourage him to get a job, but he doesn’t care. He was so accustomed to the repetition of a soldier’s life. He couldn’t adjust to the typical lifestyle that other soldiers made. Somehow you can see the struggle he is going through. After the physical war, there was a war going on internally. Krebs had lost his emotion and will to care. The horror he experienced actually seeing first-hand life and death situations were incomprehensible to his parents. There was no way they would be able to identify with him.

In Troy’s relationship with his children, Lyon and Cory, he is physical present but emotionally checked out. Lyons is his older son from a previous marriage. Lyon’s is 34 yr old with a child of his own but continues to chase after a dream of becoming a musician without any source of income. Troy supplies him with money although apprehensive. He wants Lyon to get a job, take care of his duties, and stop living the “fast life”. “Yeah, I got it. You know why I got it? Cause I don’t throw my money away out in the streets. You living the fast life…wanna be a musician…running around in the clubs and things…then, you learn to take care of yourself. You aint gonna find me asking nobody for anything. I done spent too many years without” (Wilson, 2013, p.1064). Cory is Troy and Rose’s younger son who is being recruited by colleges for football. Troy sees his son’s dreams as parallel to his own dream and steers him away from following his dream. He fears that his son be an unsuccessful athlete. Troy makes it his duty not to sign the permission slip for the recruiters. “Ain’t no need for nobody come around here to talk to me about signing nothing” (Wilson, 2013, p. 1974). Cory questions his father “How come you ain’t never like me” (Wilson, 2013, p.1075)? We see that Troy thinks of his duties and responsibilities of caring for his children as obligations. “Like you? I go out of here

    For example, Paul had his Texas ad Midwest feel, and now moved to Florida. He is now a student for Lake Windsor mIddle School. This change brought out a different part of the protagonist. For instance, “No one had noticed that I was gone. Kerri wound up going on the Caterpillar with Adam, too. I didn't go on any rides,” (Bloor 75). Therefore, because Paul came to this school his emotions changed. It shows that Paul was a quiet and shy kid at this school. He only had one friend and was scared to talk to Kerri. He did not want to do much either, He was an uncomfortable new kid at a new school.

Nick, the narrator throughout the book, experiences changes but not as many as other characters. Nick was a shy

In all stories there is someone who changes after something happens and it turns them into someone they aren't. An example is a person turn into someone you never expected them to be because they are hiding themselves. Its also important to think before everything you do because the aftermath can be unreal. The characters in the“ Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson and the short story,” Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl could have learned their lessons. In the story, “ Possibility of Evil” Miss.Strangeworth takes her hate out to an family by writing letters to them. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” Mary makes a bad decision after finding out her husband is leaving her. These stories tell the reader that people around you have a side they don't show, but sooner or later it will come out of them.

In the book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, many characters went through changes in the way they act and their personalities. Scott is going into high school, with his group of friends. Scott is trying to gain the attention from Julia, his high school crush. When his friend group breaks apart, he has to find a way to make new friends. Scott was able to break out of his comfort zone, making his way through high school. Scott changed the most in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by growing out of his comfort zone to make new friends, and to become less judgemental of others.

adopts a new attitude in place of the sorrow and despair he encountered earlier. Now filled with

It is commonly said, as well as believed, that change is inevitable. It is bound to happen, whether we choose to believe in this concept or not. An excellent example of change, change of character specifically, would be Eliezer Wiesel in his book Night. He wrote about his time in concentration camps, and the traumatizing experiences he went through, some of which most people can’t even begin to imagine. His mentality changed and developed more and more as the book progressed, he has clearly changed from the once religious and faith-based boy, into an anguished and desolate man.

A French philosopher named Henry Burquen once said, 'To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.' A good example of how a person develops his or her maturity is the story of Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. In the novel, a young boy from the South travels down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave where they encounter many adventures and meet many different people. Along the way, not only does Huck mature, but he also becomes a kind and loyal person, sometimes going against the values of society. Huck's adventure down the Mississippi River is a passage into manhood because he learns to make decisions on his own as well as gain respect for Jim as a person.

This change is a positive and uplifting change of self for the protagonist in this novel.

There is an apparent attitude change of Jean when the scene shifts from the one in which He is talking to the ship doctor he meets on the port to the scene of

and he became bitter and spiritless. Then he develops a special bond with Phoebe. Despite the