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Charles Wallace's A Wrinkle In Time

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“‘Do you enjoy being the most belligerent uncooperative child in this whole school?’” (p.28). In the novel, A Wrinkle in Time, this is what Meg’s principal said to her early in the novel. This was rude and uncalled for a principal to say to a student. The protagonist, Meg, had a rough time in the beginning of the novel because she thinks that she is a delinquent at school, for this reason she almost didn’t save her brother, Charles Wallace, from IT, in effect she became a better person and learned a valuable lesson for herself. In the beginning of the novel Meg wasn't confident in herself as result she thought awful of herself. “A delinquent, that’s what I am...” (p6) When she said this she was reflecting about herself in her room when there was a storm happening. She wasn’t the …show more content…

Meg thinks of herself as an awful person, but in due time she began thinking better of herself so that she can save her brother, Charles Wallace. Meg has to go through a lot of trials to achieve the main goal by the end of the novel, saving Charles Wallace. Leading up to that, she had to overcome the man with red eye, that is the reason why Charles Wallace was in IT’s control. Meg said this angrily to her father and Calvin: ‘’Why did we go without Charles Wallace? Did we just leave him there?’” (p164). Quickly after, she got unfrozen and she went back to Camazotz alone to save Charles Wallace. Only Meg had something that IT, the antagonist, didn’t have. At first, she thought it was anger because when she was mad IT didn’t have control over her. Then all of a sudden, she realized that IT couldn’t love for the

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Meg is the horowic person in the story. The thing that makes Meg horowic is that she goes back for Charles Wallace at Central Central Intelligence. She goes back to the planet of Camazotz to free Charles Wallace from IT. She went back to Camazotz on Friday the 13 in August. She was the one who went back because she was the only one who could defeat IT.

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This shows that Meg can’t control her anger at the beginning of the book. It is stated in the book of how she got into a fight with a boy for talking about her brothers and how she rough-housed at lunch to make herself feel better. This also shows that She was very timid. On page 10, it says: “She looked at herself in the

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She says it is bad that they haven’t told her about her father. My second proof is, “No,” Meg said. “Nothing.” Her voice was heavy with misery. In this one, she is now telling Calvin that they told her nothing about her father and she is full of misery and is very depressed.

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In the book it states, “The man with red eyes made the frightening grimace that passed for his smile.” Page 68, while this is descriptive and a bit disturbing, it is better portrayed in the movie. The look on the man with the red eye’s face is even more grimace in the movie, in a particular scene the man with red eyes had Meg, Calvin and controlled Charles in a room with no doors or windows and the expression on the man with the red eye’s face and his tone of voice was even more chilling than I could have imagined from with what was given to me in the

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Why do I always have to show everything?”This means that she was insecure because she feels like everything is her fault and she can't do anything right. My second reason why believe that Meg changed over time is because on (Pg.103 in the pdf ) “since they had begun their journeyings she had been looking for a hand to hold” and Also because on pg.79 when Meg said “journey was

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She writes, “My home isn’t far but it’s not close either, and somehow I got it in my head one day to ask my mother to make me a sandwich and write a note to the principal so I could eat in the canteen too” (43). The canteen is the place where only the students who live too far from school go to eat. By saying this, she means that she would like to feel special and have privileges like some of the other kids. This quote is important because in her mind, she thought that having this privilege was a sigh of importance and fitting in. When her plan went wrong and she was yelled at, she realised that her expectations were way too high and that it was not a big

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Synopsis: A Wrinkle in Time tells the story of a young girl named Meg, her brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin and how they go on an adventure through space and time. Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin meet the Mrs. W’s and learn about how to wrinkle to travel through space and time. They also learn about an evil that inhabits another planet where their father is being held captive. They are sent on a mission to learn about the evil that has taken over the planet and to save their father. The mission is dangerous and they encounter many obstacles throughout the way while learning about what It is.

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That was what she had that It did not have”( ). Meg finally knew how to get Charles Wallace back. The answer was love and the power it had on getting Charles Wallace back was tremendously

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