A Twist of Fate

Author's Note: This is my compare and contrast essay called A Twist of Fate this is my piece proving my understanding of compare and contrast

Ingenious, the genius of a machine built from great curiosity. What comes to mind when you life changing invention?A young boy named Milo is trudging on, bored at the thought of life. He doesn’t care for school and has nothing to do. (Or at least that's what it feels like). But in an exciting turn of events, he comes home one day to find a magic tollbooth in his room. He gets in his toy car, goes through the tollbooth, and finds himself in a magical place where he realizes the importance and significance of life. Although, the possibilities of finding random tollbooth in your bedroom isn’t very realistic the opportunity of discovering a new outlook life is achievable.

Though Milo’s difference between of the scenery of his normal life and his life in the magical place aren’t very similar they still have comparable importance. In Milo’s regular life back at home he is very bored and unaware of all the amazing things that occur in his life. But while Milo’s life in the magical place was beautiful at the beginning he slowly realizes that just because he is in a place where everything appears interesting, “it isn’t what it seems to be”.

Not only were Milo’s sceneries related, his personalities didn’t seem to be altered either. The ego’s of Milo appeared to be the same in each place. Although he was surrounded by amazing things, and opportunities, his mindset remains the same he is still bored at the fact of life. But once he realized how special his life was back home he aches to return to his life back home.

Although his personalities were matching, the story is very much relatable to Annie. The story Annie is about a young girl who is bored of living as a little orphan girl and decides to run away to discover a new life. Similar to the Phantom Tollbooth because they’re both trying to find a new beginning in their existence.

Even though, there were many similarities there was also a significant amount of differences. One difference was that his two lives were taken place in an normal place and the other a magical place. The magical place was full of fantasy, so it was very fictional. And the regular place was very plain, and realistic.

In conclusion, I believe that this book has a lot more similarities than differences. The differences in this book really prove to make the book a fantasy and very far fetched. But still some of the similarities make the book realistic and a possibility but the twist of fantasy definitely make this book a fantastic read.