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How Does Norton Juster Use Flashback In The Phantom Tollbooth

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In the novel The Phantom Tollbooth the author Norton Juster uses a flashback technique to tell the part of the story that happened in the past when Faintly Macabre, the Which, tell her story. According to the Which’s story, the kingdom started out when a prince explores a wasteland and conquers demons, monsters and giants to build a city which he called Wisdom. The prince now a king develops Wisdom into a large city. He gets married and has two sons that grow up and set off to win more lands for their kingdom: one son founded Dictionopolis and the other founded Digitopolis. The brothers become rivals because they think that their cities are the best. At this point, the king adopts two baby girls, Rhyme and Reason, that he found in the
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