Reality And Illusion In The Phantom Tollbooth

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It the novel The Phantom Tollbooth the author, Norton Juster, tells the story of a city that has split into two parts: Reality and Illusions. The city of Illusions looked very beautiful but was imaginary and the city of Reality was invisible but existed. According to the story the city of Illusions was a mirage but the city of Reality had become invisible because people stopped looking at it because they were in a hurry to get where they were going. At first when people hurried by things without looking at them the things got uglier and dirtier but then over time things started to fade away because no one noticed or cared. Now the Cities can’t be fixed because “they can never see what they are too busy to look for.” Alex stated that the

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