Charles Wallace's A Wrinkle In Time

“‘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

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