Day 4, Chapters 13-16of Phantom Tollbooth

After reading the next section, pages 160-210 of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, I decided that I can’t wait to finish the book. It has been a great read so far. Milo, the main character starts off on his way to another city, but he first ends up on the Island of Conclusions. When he asked Canby how he got here he explained, “You jumped, of course”(p168). I thought it was funny that when you jump to conclusions, you actually jump to the Island of Conclusions. This has been a big pattern in the book where the author takes a lot of thing literally. Once they got to Digitopolis, Milo meets Dodecahedron, who happens to have 12 faces just like the shape he is. In this city there is a numbers mine, where you mine for numbers. Only the numbers they mine are important, that just throw out the all the gems that we would think have value. There is also a path that leads to infinity in this town. Everything is different here, where they eat subtraction soup when their full and become even hungrier. I think it’s weird that everything is always the opposite in this book. Then he meets a kid where only .58 of him is there because he is based on averages where the average family has 2.58 children. I thought this was just messed up because every family has 1.3 cars, and he drives the .3 of a car. Could you even imagine such a different world?