I am doing a report on the book I have read called: The Phantom Tollbooth. In this report I will tell you what happened in Chapter 1 and 2. WARNING: This report and the following reports will have spoilers of the book if you want to read this book. Read it before you read this. If you decide to read this anyway, it's not my fault. If you think this report needs any more details on Chapter 1 and 2 or has any mistakes or I need to improve it please say so, and make sure you are talking about the book not the movie.
The book Phantom Tollbooth is an amazing book about how this boy Milo discovers how to world is not boring. Milo was a kid that didn't get life. When he was at home he wanted to go to school, once he was a school he wanted to go home. Then, one day he went home and he got a gift that changed his life. It was a big gift that was in his room. There was a card that's addressed to: MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME. There was no holiday so, he opened it. He was wondering what it could be because it was so tall and big. Then, once he opened it he realized that is was a…..tollbooth. A tollbooth he thought? What can he possibly do with a tollbooth? He had two coins and a map. He looked on the map and was trying to figure out where to go. He saw a very peculiar place. Dictionopolis? He hopped into his car, put the coin in the box and asked to go to Dictionopolis. He then went into the tollbooth and a whole nother world came.
Milo keeps driving and driving, wondering what place he is in. He then sees a house! Finally, a person. He stopped at the house and introduced himself to the man. His name is the Whether man. He introduced himself but, said the ending three times. How strange? I guess he always does this. Milo asked, "Do you control the weather?" The Whether Man said, "No, I don't see what type of weather there is. I see if there's whether or not weather. Wouldn't you want to know if there was weather then, what weather there is?" Milo asked "Where am I?" The man says, "You're at Expectations. A place where you go always before you go where you want to go." "Well, I must be on my way", Milo said and hopped in his car and drove away from Expectations. Lets hope not all the people are that weird around here, Milo thought. He got kind of bored and then, started to just drive while not thinking. He then realized he was in a new strange land. He didn't see much beauty, like he have saw before. Then these little slugs came and they kept falling asleep. What strange creatures they are. How did I get here?, Milo thought. They started crawling on him and saying for him to sleep. So, he started to relax and go to sleep. Then, this big dog with a clock came and woke everyone up. Once Milo said, "We are just killing time.", the dog became furious. They all ran went to hide. The big clock said to Milo, "You have to get out of here." But, Milo didn't want to go, but of course the dog made him. So, he said, "You got here, by not thinking. To get out you must think." Then, the dog introduced himself, "I am Tock, the watchdog." Tock pushed the car while Milo though stuff. Tock helped him think by saying stuff like, "Think about facts of George Washington." Then, the car started going and Tock jumped in with him. Then, they were back on track to Dictionopolis.
