Milo (The Phantom Tollbooth)

Milo is the main protagonist of the famous children's novel, The Phantom Tollbooth and its Chuck Jones film of the same name. He is an ordinary boy who finds a mysterious tollbooth in his bedroom and when he goes through it in his toy car, he ends up in the Kingdom of Wisdom. He goes on a quest with his loyal companions Tock, a watch dog who is a dog with a clock on his back, and The Humbug, an aristocratic beetle, to rescue the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason from evil demons.
He is voiced and portrayed by Butch Patrick who is best known for portraying Eddie Munster.
==Plot==
Milo has everything a child should want iin terms of toys and entertainment, yet he is very bored. He finds everything in his life to be completely uninteresting and has a special disdain for his schoolwork, since he thinks all of it is useless. Milo does not believe that anything he learns—numbers, words, or anything else—is applicable to everyday life.
When an anonymous friend sends Milo a huge tollbooth, he begins a journey that will change his life forever. What begins as a make-believe game (and not a very interesting one, from Milo's perspective) eventually becomes a very real journey into a wonderful fantasy world called the Lands Beyond. Structurally, Milo's journey constitutes a series of lessons from the inhabitants of this unusual land. Oddly enough, Milo is never frightened by his sudden movement between words, perhaps just another indication of how truly bored he was before the tollbooth arrived.
Through his encounters with characters in the Lands Beyond, Milo learns about imagination, using his time wisely, perspective, words, sounds, numbers and a host of other things. His ultimate goal is to find wisdom—both figuratively, through his education, and literally, by locating the missing princesses Rhyme and Reason. These themes often overlap and repeat themselves as Milo finds himself in similarly sticky situations.
Milo finds himself under the wing of many characters who impart their different lessons—sometimes intentionally and sometimes unwittingly. Milo is open and attentive to these lessons, largely because he must learn them in order to escape a situation. Throughout the book, Milo learns not only values but also how to put those values to work for himself.
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