Read the passage from The Phantom Tollbooth. "What a silly system." The boy laughed. "Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again."

Which word from the passage helps the reader draw a conclusion about Alec's perspective on growing up rather than growing down?

silly
always
why
won't