How Does Milo Change In The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a book about Milo’s adventures in the tollbooth. One day Milo receives a package inside the package was the Phantom Tollbooth that will change him forever. In the book, Milo starts out with being very bored and wherever he was, he did not want to be there, but as the book goes on he begins to see the world differently. In this essay we will look at the times throughout the book Milo changes his opinion about the world and beyond.
To begin with, the first signs of change in Milo were on page 31, As Milo ended up in the doldrums, the doldrums are where everybody does absolutely nothing, he meets the watchdog. On page 31, the watchdog says to Milo “since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.” This is obviously new to Milo because he is used to not doing anything at all. So as he is told to think the car starts moving again. Milo changes during this incident because he learns that to get somewhere you must think.

Alec Bings, who grows from the air down to the ground, explains to Milo what different points of view are. On page 107, Alec tells Milo “you can't always look at things from someone's else’s point of view.” Because Milo is used to not doing anything Milo finds it cool to look at something through someone else's point of view or differently. Since Alec Bings grows from the sky down, he experiences a different point of view than most people. Meeting Alec Bings has shown Milo a different way to look at the world. This is another way Milo has changed throughout the