The Phantom Tollbooth: Expanded Annotation

"It seems like everyone in this book thinks everything that isn't like what they do is very strange "

Every where Milo goes I've noticed that everyone thinks what Milo does is strange. The way he grows, how he doesn't understand numbers, and many more. The way that Alec thought growing up was strange and how the Mathmagician didn't understand how Milo couldn't understand a letter the Mathmagician sent to his brother where the words were letters. Just made me think, how does Milo not question these things that people do?

In this world there are some people who do question other ways of living or growing up. But I don't think those people think about it the same way Alec and the king do.

Although many people question many ways of living. Without some of it we wouldn't really understand how other people in this world live. In ways other than lowing up religious buildings, taking important hostages, and just plain death threats. If we question those special ways, we may have an understanding of how we all are connected in many ways. Just like Milo and everyone else. Milo learned a lot from questioning and so did we as the readers. If Milo can learn that much in one trip to somewhere, why can't we?

When I was 7 i didn't know so much about any religion (even my own). When I found out that my friend was a Muslim and they couldn't eat pepperoni on their pizza I was really shocked. How could someone not  have pepperoni? (of course now I don't have pepperoni on my pizza) But after the years of hanging out with them I learned why and didn't find it so weird anymore.

I wonder if  Milo spent more time with everyone else the same thing would happen. That they wouldn't find Human's way of living odd? If only we could do that for everyone else in the world to stop terrorism?