Dictioonopolis Analysis

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Milo is a very bored child, who receives an unusual package. He takes a trip through the mysterious make believe tollbooth that appears in his bedroom one day. He is unexpectedly transported to the Lands Beyond while he drives through it in his electric toy car. He meets Tock, the watchdog who joins him on the mysterious when his on the way to Dictionopolis. In Dictioonopolis, Milo meets King Azaz who crowns over the world of words and letters. During that time, King Azaz gives Milo a mission to rescue two princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Later Tock and Milo leave Dictionopolis with a new confidante with Humbug whom King Azaz has sent along as a guide. The three head toward to Dictionopolis when they motivate the Mathemagician. On the way to Dictionopolis, they meeting all kinds of unusual people and places. They stop at Point of View at outside of Dictionopolis. They meet Alec Bings, a little boy who floats …show more content…
They find themselves in the Valley of Sound, when the travelers escape the doctor and horrible noise and then the sound completely silent. They meet Soundkeeper who has withheld all the sound of the Valley. People have stopped appreciating because they haven’t pass the mission. At the first tried, Milo fail a mission to appreciating the sound. Later on, Milo steals a sound from the Soundkeeper’s place, which the people of the valley use to break open the sound vault.
Milo and his friends continue on their way to Dictionopolis after helping in the Valley of Sound. They meet the Dodecahedron, a man who have twelve faces, each of have expresses a different emotion. The Dodecahedron takes the travelers to see the Mathemagician. Milo succeeds to trick the Mathemagician into agreeing to releases the princesses. Then, he find out that he might climb through the Mountains of Ignorance to reach the Castle in the

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