At the beginning of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Meg’s tone is sad. Meg’s dad has been gone for a long time and he usually writes to Meg and her family. First, Meg and Calvin are talking about her dad and his letters and Meg stated, “Nothing happened… That’s the problem.” Later in the text, Calvin asks what happened to the letters her dad was sending, and Meg said that they just stopped coming. Calvin asks if she has heard anything at all about it, and in the text, Meg says, “‘No… Nothing.’ Her voice was heavy with misery.” The word “misery” from the text shows that her tone here is sad because she hasn’t heard from her dad. Lastly, when Calvin asks if she thinks her dad could be dead, Meg tells him that “they” would tell her family