The Phantom Tollbooth Summary

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.

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these. If things can be discussed before, they may actually move viewing it all as a new chapter, huge adventure and really exciting event.

4. The next key words were identified in the chapter and serve as an informal outline of the chapter. At the beginning of the chapter, Foster gives a brief example of a quest: a knight (Kip), a dragon road (German shepherds), Holy Grail (wonder bread), one dragon (’68 ‘Cuda), evil knight (Tony) and a princess (the laughing girl). In other words, each story has a quester, a place to go to, along with stated reason to go there and unknown challenges and trials en route; however, at the end there is a real reason for the whole trip - self-discovery (Foster 3). The stated reason is

After the climax, the story continues with the falling action. The falling action includes the events directly following the climax and preceding the resolution. The author uses the falling action to answer previous questions in the story, while also presenting an unexpected scenario that continues to

The second phase of the Hero’s Journey is the initiation which embarks on the road of trials. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice becomes overwhelmed with notion of being a range of different sizes within one day, so she begins to cry. Her crying creates a pool of tears where she meets an array of animals, including a mouse. In this pool of tears, Alice and the array of animals

Next, is the ‘Call to Adventure’ and the hero is faced with something that makes him start his adventure. This might be a problem or a challenge he needs to overcome. Following that step is ‘Refusal of the Call‘; when the hero attempts to refuse the adventure because he is afraid. After that is ‘Meeting the Mentor’ which is where the hero encounters someone who can give him

“There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself-not just sometimes, but always.” Have you ever been in a magical world with demons and large humbugs and watch dogs? Probably not. But for Milo, everything is a bore. He wants to be somewhere else when he’s there and there when he’s somewhere else. In the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Milo encounters countless adventures in a wierd world, and along the way he changes quite a bit.

The book that I have chosen out of the two books that I have read is The Road. I have read both A Lesson Before Dying and The Road had both been interesting to read and are strong contenders to be in the top five for the list. I feel however, that A Lesson Before Dying doesn’t have the type of hook that could make young readers want to continue the book and finish it. The Road, however has an apocalyptic type of setting that adds a sort of mystery and zombie feeling that young readers are usually interested in. The Road is also very easy to read and over a week or a few days you can easily finish it and start on any other books or assignments. A Lesson Before Dying takes a while to get used to and although it can teach you many things about

Ms. Johnson request reflected the Understanding level. Explain ideas or concepts. Ms. Johnson wanted to see if the student had a clear understanding of “The Phantom Tollbooth”. Examples: classify, describe, discuss, explain, and identify.

six different stages through which the setting evolves. The first stage takes place at the home of

The book is essentially a fairy tale that is appealing to younger children but on

I read Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. This book is about a young orphan child, with a never-ending imagination, named Anne. Anne has been taken in and out of orphanages all her life. Until, one day Matthew Cuthbert and his sister, Miss Marilla Cuthbert, are interested in having a young boy to live with them. They called the orphanage and told them to send the child on the train. He goes to the train station to pick the child up, but to his surprise he found Anne. Anne tells Matthew how she imagines living there would be like. She was so set on staying that Matthew just couldn't leave her at the train station. He takes her to his house, and while on the journey, Anne is enjoying every moment of the beautiful flowered valleys.

After opening with an overture, the film introduces Anna Leonowens and her son, Louis, arriving to Siam on a boat. They are brought to the palace to meet the king of Siam and his wives and children.

In the morning they woke up ate breakfast and put all of their stuff in the car. After, they were done eating the started driving to go on their private jet. When, they got to the jet they put all of their stuff inside. Next, they started heading to go see Magic in Crystal Cliff.