Day 3, Chapters 9-12 of Phantom Tollbooth

I have the read the next four chapters. It includes pages 101-159 of the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. The main character Milo develops a lot in this section. He starts off in a strange land where a boy said, “in my family, everyone is born in the air, with his head at exactly the height it’s going to be when he’s and adult, and then we all grow toward the ground”(p104). I think this is very weird yet logical. Milo learns about his changing point of view as he grows. Next, he stumbles upon a symphony, but they don’t make music, they play the colors. Without them the world would be black and white. Later, he learns about the man that makes every sound in the world. Sometimes it is hard for me to imagine all these crazy new ideas in the book; I don’t know how Milo keeps up with it. He then goes through silent valley, where everyone is holding signs because when they talk you can’t hear them. He visits the Soundkeeper to try to get the noise back. She won’t, because it is her job to collect all the sound, because without her we wouldn’t know if things were new or old. Apparently every sound has its own shape in this book. It was a lot to take in, in these chapters because it didn’t seem very real at all. How would you feel if found out that everything was different, and not what if appeared to be?