The Phantom Tollbooth Essays

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

The Phantom Tollbooth Imagine being fast asleep in the middle of the night, and being awakened by a tollbooth that magically appeared in your room! Inside is a magical land where two queens Rhyme and Reason have been captured. War has broken out between two leaders Azaz, the king of letters, and the Mathemagician known as the king of numbers. Milo, who is a young boy that faces constant boredom and depression is placed into this magical world one night by a tollbooth. He ends up having the most

Caldwell, Kathleen, and Thomas Gaine. "The Phantom Tollbooth" and how the Independent Reading of Good Books Improves Student's Reading Performance. 2000. ProQuest. Web. 15 Nov. 2015. This article highlights the importance of independent reading to improve positive life-long habits, and improve performance in other academic subjects. Independent reading encourages heightened levels of reading comprehension, and exposes children to vocabulary terms that are rarely spoken in conversation, which, as

Writing 5 Rachna Shah From Null to Beyond: The Writing of Space/Geospatial Storytelling in The Phantom Tollbooth … “‘I don 't think there really is such a country," [Milo] concluded after studying [the map] carefully. "Well, it doesn 't matter anyway." And he closed his eyes and poked a finger at the map.” —The Phantom Tollbooth, 1961 … When we travel to a new place, one of the first tools we acquire is a map, a tool that gives boundaries to and guides us through

ever growing pit you have fallen into and who do you ask when everyone is just like you? In The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, a young boy named Milo saw no meaning of anything in his life. He didn’t see the point of solving useless problems or spelling words he’ll never say, and since no one bothered to explain otherwise, he thought seeking knowledge was the greatest waste of time. Using a tollbooth he found in his room and his electric car, he travels to an alternate world where he meets people

The Phantom Tollbooth is a story a published in 1961 that was remade into a 1970’s motion picture. Where in the story a boy named Milo thinks that everything is useless and never wants to do anything. Then one day a red and white striped present shows up in his room. He opens it and a few minutes later finds himself in a place called “the Lands Beyond”. Now because there are a book and a movie I have a favorite. My favorite being the book for many reasons. I prefer it because it has more details

The Phantom Tollbooth has many allegories within it. It means that there is two meanings behind something, whether it may be a person, animal or object. One example of an allegory in The Phantom Tollbooth would be Tock. He is a watchdog that makes sure nobody wastes time. He has a big clock on the side of him and goes tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. That is the first meaning of Tock, a loyal watchdog. The second meaning behind him is that he represents time itself. He shows Milo the importance of

unengaging, that is until the tollbooth was sent to him and he later finds himself in the Lands Beyond. He then tries to find a way to get back home and faces through many conflicts in the novel The Phantom Tollbooth. Characters: Milo, Tock, The Humbug, King Azaz, The Mathemagician, Princess Rhyme, and Princess Reason are the main characters of the novel. Settings: In The Phantom Tollbooth the setting is placed outside of Milo’s home at first until he passes through the tollbooth into the Lands Beyond.

Though a children label book, The Phantom Tollbooth is a book that anyone can enjoy. Told in a third person point of view, the reader follows Milo, a child who finds a mysterious tollbooth one day in his house and out of curiosity puts it together and decides to go in and it takes him to a world that is unknown to him and where he is the person selected to rescue the two princesses Rhyme and Reason, to reunite the two kingdoms of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis. During this journey Milo learns things

Reflection of: “Mark Twain and His Times” The article “Mark Twain and His Times,” by Stephen Railton tells of a time when Mark Twain was the American idol. During the period between 1865 through 1910, Railton declares was “Twain’s time” (Railton, 2010). During this time Mark Twain was in the midst of his lecture tours and live performances, his newspaper articles were being read by people all around the globe, and his fiction books became instant pieces of American literature. His storytelling

“Barn Burning” is a very interesting short story that’s I have read many times throughout my high school and college time. This story was something that really interested me when I read it for the first time as I think it does most people. William Faulkner was as ruthless as a writer, as anyone tried to be. Most of where he grew up was Oxford, Mississippi. The man had grown up and never really had a care in the world and that’s why his writing is worth the read and time. This is a very popular short

Have you read the book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster? In this book Milo the main character doesn’t know what to do with himself not sometimes but always. He changed alot in this book. In this essay I am going to tell you three ways that he changed from his boring self. When he finds an unusual package a his room for him, and his curious mind made him open it. the package was a tollbooth and Milo found a instruction manual that said it included assorted coins used for paying tolls, a map

Have you ever read the book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster? If not you should. Because if you don't there will be spoilers ahead. What you are reading about is how Milo has changed throughout the book from the beginning and to the end. At the beginning of the book, we see Milo always unsatisfied and bored. When he’s at school, he wishes to be home. But when he is at home, he wants to be somewhere else. But out of nowhere, a mysterious package arrives with no name of who sent it. Inside the

Musical theatre combines music, dance and theatre to tell a story. It is not just a play with music because the songs and the music also tell a story. Music and singing are the main features and together with drama they combine into a musical theatre. It appeals to many people because it has such variety. The words are sung and in some musicals there are no spoken words at all. Musical theatre has developed over the last 150 years. American musical theatre began in the beginning of the 20th

Barring the novel’s title, the word “phantom” is never again used in reference to Erik in Gaston LeRoux’s The Phantom of the Opera; in other words, the choice of the word phantom appears to be an entirely deliberate ploy to convey a reality of Erik’s nature. To examine LeRoux’s motivations in selecting such a word in his title, one must examine the etymology of the word in its original French form, fantôme. In spite of its contemporary meaning of “a ghost or apparition,” the word is derived from

Will Kushinada-hime and Persephone find a way to be able to live a peaceful life with their families without having to worry about the dangers villains cast upon them? In The Legend of Yamata-no Orochi, Kushinada-hime, the daughter of an elderly couple was to be sacrificed to the monster Yamata-no Orochi. The monster has already devoured Kushinada-hime’s eight other siblings and her parents are determined to save their only remaining child. A man named Susano-o comes to their village and sees them

Gaston Leroux, Leroux writes about a tortured man known as the Opera Ghost or the Phantom who falls in love and becomes obsessed with a young chorus girl after tutoring her in singing. When felt challenged for her affection by a childhood friend, the Phantom begins killing anybody who he believes will keep her from him. Captivated by Leroux’s story, filmmaker Carl Laemmle creates the Americanized, silent film The Phantom of the Opera. Due to the success of the film, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber creates

In Gaston Leroux’s story, The Phantom of the Opera, Christine's attraction to both the Phantom and Raoul leads to turmoil and difficult decisions as shown through repetition when referring to both. Firstly, on the roof of the Opera house, Christine tries to prove to Raoul that the Phantom of the Opera really exists. After expressing how terrifying her experience with him was, she, in a trance-like state, says “but his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound” (Leroux 38). The author's

Exoticism exists on a spectrum, from pure exoticism - the choice to represent or "other" an exotic a non-Western subject, to transcultural composing which is the result of the combination of styles without an intent to "other" an exotic subject (Lecture 2/22). Bizet's Carmen is an example of pure exoticism. The story was considered shocking at the time because its violation of the social and operatic norms while exoticsizing gypsies (Lecture 2/20). Carmen, a "rebellious cigarette factory worker who

Brain science is hard to understand. Very hard. However, Dr. Norman Doidge describes the current understanding of brain plasticity by using relatable examples and comprehensible diction instead of arduous textbook style writing. In The Brain that Changes Itself, Doidge challenges the age-old belief that the brain's structure is concrete by providing countless experiments that prove the brain to be malleable. Doidge shines a light on traumatic injuries and brain illnesses by providing individual