Phantom Tollbooth Book Report

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a book that I can relate to. Milo was bored in school, and he did not have anything to do in his spare time. Then, a package in the mail changed his life-a phantom tollbooth. He came to see reality and know that life can be full of adventure if you make it.

Milo, an average boy, was bored. Everything was boring to him. I can relate to this. Almost anything I do is boring. I like how I can relate to Milo's feelings. There are times when I wish I was at home instead of school, but when I am at home I'm just as bored as I was at school, but at school I was learning something. Milo was my favorite character throughout the book, because of his perseverance. He faced many tough challenges in this book, but he never gave up. He gave it his full effort and enjoyed doing so. He was very intellectual. He outsmarted all of the demons, he Rescued rhyme and Reason.

The spelling bee was one of my least favorite characters. He kept spelling things out throughout the book. I have never enjoyed taking spelling classes in grade school, and I was never really good a spelling big words out. It got pretty annoying after a while. For example Charge, C-h-a-r-g-e, Charge. It gets kind of annoying, a-n-n-o-y-i-n-g, annoying. This is my opinion though.

He is the demon that gives bad advice. In our human nature we become proud. We begin to think that we are the best at something that we do. We do it over and over to so off our talents for other people to see and talk about. We often does these things for the praise of men instead of to the praise and glory of the Lord. In these things we do, we want to be the best at what we do, people may ask us how we got to be so good or how can they became as good as you are, but you give them bad advice instead. Then, they won't became as good as you are, and you can continue to receive all the