Character Analysis Of Milo In Tock And The Humbug

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Milo is a very lonesome boy who thinks everything is a waste of time: “It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time.”(Juster 9). That all changes when his curiosity gets the best of him when he found out how Rhyme and Reason got banished. He goes out on a quest to bring back Rhyme and Reason, but he does not do it alone. Beside him throughout the whole entire story is his two friends he makes during the book Tock and the Humbug. Tock is a big watchdog that keeps track of time in the Doldrums, and he patrols around the Doldrums to keep them from wasting any time: “He’s always sniffing around to see that nobody wastes time.”(Juster 28). After meeting Tock in the Doldrums, Milo and Tock went out to Dictionopolis and encounter with