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Officer Shrift. Officer Shrift is the only police officer (and the entire police force) in Dictionopolis. And in addition to being the police force, he’s also the judge and the jailer in town. He’s about two feet tall and four feet wide, and as he walks through Dictionopolis he continuously mutters that the people around him are guilty.
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Officer Short Shrift is the Dictionopolan cop who is very short. He doubles as a judge and a jailer.
He is pretty confident that he has "never seen anyone so guilty", and decides that everybody's "guilty" as soon as he sees them. He is not very fair or logical. His examination of Milo is brief, and he keeps cutting the boy off so that he can make up a new crime of which Milo can be guilty. For example, he blames Milo for not knowing the officer's ...
Short Shrift's name is a phrase, which means "little or no attention or consideration gave to the problem". This is a reference to his personality.
The Phantom Tollbooth (after exiting the Doldrums) Juster's guilt over his lack of progress on the cities book had led him to write pieces of stories about a little boy named Milo, which he began to develop into a book. Juster quit his job so that he could work on the book. His imagination fired by a boy who approached him on the street and with whom he discussed the nature of infinity, Juster ...
th her grandchildren.The Phantom tollboot. to the Lands Beyond. He meets many strange characters, travels through many strange lands, and is thoroughly confused by the topsy-turvy inversion of illusion and reality, deception, and the suspension of the laws of Tollbooth tells the story of Milo’s jou. ney through a magicalnature—just as many ...
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Amid the cacophony the police force arrives – a two-foot-tall officer named Officer Shrift. He blows his whistle loudly and yells red-faced that everyone is guilty. He walks around and peers suspiciously at people, making notes in his little book. He tells the flustered Humbug he looks suspicious.
- Norton Juster
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator), Maurice Sendak (Appreciation) 4.20. 293,071ratings13,794reviews. Kindle $8.99. Rate this book. Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond.
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When Published: 1961. Literary Period: 20th century children’s literature boom. Genre: Children’s Novel, Nonsense Literature. Setting: Milo’s bedroom and the Lands Beyond. Climax: Milo, Tock, and the Humbug rescue the princesses Rhyme and Reason. Antagonist: The demons, who represent qualities like ignorance, sloth, greed, selfishness ...
