https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj Consider the setting in the Doldrums - "The sky became quite gray and the whole countryside seemed to lose its color and assume the same monotonous tone." Then, once Milo left the Doldrums, "colors had returned to their original brightness." Why does this make perfect sense? en-us 2017-10-12 12:25:22 UTC 2017-10-16 20:22:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567718 I believe this makes sense because the Doldrums symbolize when your mind just wanders off and you get lazy. Everything just starts to get gloomy and boring, which is why everything is gray at the Doldrums. When you leave the Doldrums, however, everything is bright, meaning that you are happy, but also your mind is in focus again.]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567718 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567824 The fact that "colors had returned to their original brightness" after Milo left the Doldrums makes perfect sense because the Doldrums were very negative and boring, and that created a very bleak feeling for Milo. Once he left the Doldrums, that bleak feeling went away, because there was nothing/nobody there to bring him down.]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567824 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567840 I think this makes perfect sense because the doldrums is described as a place where everything is sad, and no one thinks for themselves. Gray is usually associated as a sad, monotonous color. When he came out of the doldrums, everything was bright and colorful. Bright can sometimes be a synonym for happy. This makes perfect sense.

]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567840 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567862 The author discribed the Doledrums because he is trying to tell us that it is a bad thing to
 get stuck in the Doledrums, stop thinking, and wasting time. He is also incuraging us to be active think and pay atention]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567862 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567972 In the book, the author describes the Doldrums as monotonous. When Milo exits the Doldrums, color is back and everything is returned to normal. The reason why I think the author makes the Doldrums dull is because nothing is ever done. There is no emotion, nothing cheery or colorful personalities. "Anything is allowed as long as it's nothing, and everything is allowed as long as it isn't anything." The Doldrums is a very boring place, a place where there is no personality or any feelings. There is no smiling, no laughing, and no thinking. When Milo exits the Doldrums color comes back. I think this happens because people think, they have emotions. ]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567972 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567997 When the author describes the Doldrums as gray and dull, it symbolizes that when you wander off, the world just fades away. Outside of the Doldrums, the scene turning back to colorful and glittery again symbolizes that getting out of your daydreams, the world comes back to you and you notice it.]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196567997 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568033 I think the author described the Doldrums as monotonous because it was very dull and no one could think. It stayed the same monotonous tone because nothing happened, causing nothing to be colorful. The world outside the Doldrums was colorful because everyone was able to think and be creative.]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568033 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568040 I think the Doldrums are described as such a dreary place because when you aren't think of anything or you run out of ideas to think of you end up in the duldroms. The places outside of the Doldrums are filled with color because  think the color represents idea or maybe imagination. When you arein the Doldrums there is no thinking, and no color.]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568040 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568087 The doldrums are pictured as a dull blank canvas because It is a place where there is no thought and nothing exciting ever happens in the doldrums. He pictured the doldrums like this because it was a way of explaining how nothing ever happens.  When Milo left the doldrums everything started to come back, all the thought and all the color. It was as if the world had opened up a door to a rainbow again ]]> 2017-10-12 18:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568087 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568241 I think the author described Doldrums as a dull and monotonous place because nothing really happens there. The Lethargarians are very boring and don't laugh or think so they never really see colors of happiness. When he leaves he started to feel happy again and see colors.  ]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568241 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568243 I think this makes sense because the doldrums nothing ever changes so no one changes the anything. The doldrums are a sad place where time is wasted. The Lethargarians are super boring and gloomy. They also do nothing and nothing bright and happy happens here. When Milo gets out of the doldrums it's all bright and nothing that he can't change.]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568243 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568309 I think the author is trying to present the Doldrums as a dark and gray place because its just plain and boring there. You 're imagination can run free, resulting in no color or anything special.]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568309 19mcgarry https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568505 The ways that the author describes the change in setting makes sense because the Dolodrums were literally nothing. "Nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes." Thinking is prohibited and all you can do is waste time. Milo escapes nothingness into something, which explains the description made by Norton Juster.]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568505 19desousa https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568546 I think that these colors assigned to each land make perfect sense. I think this because when you are in the doldrums, you can't think, or even how the author described it , " monotonous". We learned that monotonous means to have one tone or one color, or in this case, one mindset. Every other place you are, it is very happy and bright colors. I could see how you would think that it is like fall foliage. ]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568546 19obrien1 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568670 The in chapter two, the author tries to teach a lesson by contrasting the setting of the Doldrums with the setting of Expectations and the road that Milo went down when leaving expectations. He is trying to say that when Milo was in the Doldrums not thinking and doing nothing, the setting was dull, extremely substandard, and grim. When he was not in the Doldrums, the setting is bright, vibrant and exciting. The author is trying to explain that doing nothing is unproductive and boring.]]> 2017-10-12 18:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568670 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568921 The author described the Doldrums as a monotonous place because when a person is not thinking, their mind can be very bland and dull. When someone's brain is thinking, they may be thinking more creatively. When I think of creativity, I think of all sorts of different and bright colors which led me to this conclusion.

]]> 2017-10-12 18:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568921 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568935 I think the author is portraying the doldrums like this because It is a place where no thought is present and your mind just shuts down and doesn't see color or feel emotions. Just like in the book when you can't think ever when you are there or else you will be punish, or the fact that laughing only happens every other thursday.

]]> 2017-10-12 18:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568935 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568948 I think the Doldrums symbolizes a few things. Such as dull black canvas and the world is fading away.In the story the symbolized it as monotonous. But when he is out of the Doldrums, he can see life a lot more clearer than the doldrums.]]> 2017-10-12 18:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568948 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568977 In the book, the author describes the Doldrums as a dark place. This picture makes perfect sense because in the doldrums, you can't think and everything is boring and dull. When Milo gets out of the doldrums, the color and light has come back because once he got out of the doldrums, he can think and be creative.]]> 2017-10-12 18:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/196568977 https://padlet.com/msecko/gqi77l3uc4gj/wish/197562690 I lick Green Pickles that are eyes.

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