What conclusion can be drawn about how Alec views
the people who "walk among the stars"?
Read the passage from The Phantom Tollbooth.
"Does everyone here grow the way you do?" puffed
Milo when he had caught up.
"Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a
moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone
does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet
grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to
discourage awkward things like that."
"What happens to them?" insisted Milo.
"Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of
everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard
that they walk among the stars." And with that he
skipped off once again toward the waiting woods
O He is jealous of them.
O He is afraid of them.
O He is inspired by them.
O He is unimpressed by them.