The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth is one of these many books. The Phantom Tollbooth shows the power of imagination and the consequences of and ignorance, explores the many ways to overcome ignorance using wisdom and creativity, and enables readers to see the power of imagination at its finest through highly relatable characters. Although there are many books that share these messages, none are able to do it as effectively as The Phantom Tollbooth. Because of this, I would choose to become The Phantom

The phantom tollbooth is an great book.It’s plot is about a kid who thinks every thing’s a bore.Then a magical tollbooth mysteriously appears and he drives through cause he has nothing better to do.But when he gets there he finds places you would never expect.He meets boys who float off the ground and islands that you get to by jumping.I would prefer this book to anyone no mater how old or young. Setting:The phantom tollbooth’s setting is the land of wisdom.What is the land of wisdom?the land of

Have you ever read the Phantom Tollbooth? It is a book written by Norton Juster, of The Dot and the Line. One of his most famous quotes is, ¨You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.¨ The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo, who doesn't know what to do with his life until a mysterious package in his room appears when he walks home from school. When he drives through the ¨phantom tollbooth,¨ he discovers wonders beyond his imagination.

The Phantom Tollbooth is a book that tells the story of a little boy on his journey to the Land Beyond, while the animated film Up delivers the story of an old man on his adventure to Paradise Falls. The journey from the view point of an old man will contain differences from the one looked at through a young child’s lens. But after the journey, both Carl and Milo receive a meaningful gift that totally change the way they look at life. From the outset, both Milo in The Phantom Tollbooth and Carl

good look around to notice the actions that are happening around them. Failing to understand others or caring about their own surroundings, they simply fail to see the fascinating aspects of life. This point becomes noticeable in the novel The Phantom Tollbooth, written by Norton Juster when discouraged Milo, the protagonist of this story, learns how appreciating life and noticing things around him can help him in life. Milo starts off as a character who is always extremely bored with life and thinks

Norton Juster’s book, The Phantom Tollbooth successfully used different types of literary devices to introduce the main theme of the novel which was the importance of education. Juster told the story of a boy named Milo who was described as, “…a boy… who didn’t know what to do with himself- not just sometimes, but always” (1961, p. 9). Milo was very indecisive and overall, he leads a pretty boring and uneventful life. However, all of that changed when he came home from school one day and noticed

In the novel The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, the characters Milo, Tock, and the Humbug get stuck on the Island of Conclusions. The only way to get there is by jumping. I found it very amusing because jumping to conclusions is an idiom. According to the Canby in the story “Every time you decide something without having a good reason you jump to conclusions whether you like it or not.” For Milo all he had said was “It couldn’t possibly be a more beautiful day. It seems that it is very easy

each other than they did like themselves.” (The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster) You wear a mask so often to the point you forget to take it off when the day ends. You stop coloring your world dandelion yellow because everyone else is a dark slate grey. Losing all common sense because society tells you to think with your heart and not with your brain. ‘You’ become ‘Them’. One of my lifelong favorite novels I’ve read is The Phantom Tollbooth. I first and only read this book when I was in the

The Phantom Tollbooth Khalila Karefa-Kargbo The Phantom Tollbooth was written by Norton Juster. I was approximately twelve when I read the book for a school project. I really enjoyed the humor in the book, and have reread it multiple times. The novel starts with a young, extremely bored boy named Milo. One day, he finds a magic tollbooth in his room. He gets in his toy car, goes through the tollbooth, and finds himself in the Lands Beyond. He meets a watchdog named Tock, who joins him on his journey

Have you ever read The Phantom Tollbooth or have you even heard of it before, if not i'm going to tell you in three paragraphs about how the main character named Milo who goes through a Tollbooth. He’s the type of boy “who didn’t know what to do with himself” and how he changes throughout the book. In the book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster there is a boy named Milo who starts out in the beginning as a boy who never wants to do anything like when he wants to go home then gets there he