Charles Wallace's A Wrinkle In Time

“Charles. Charles, I love you. My baby brother who always takes care of me. Come back to me. Come back to me, Charles Wallace, come away from IT, come back, come home. I love you Charles. Oh, Charles Wallace, I love you.” (L’engle 100). In this quote Meg is trying to save her little brother Charles Wallace from IT, the antagonist in A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time is a story about a girl named Meg whos father has been missing for 4 years. Meg and her little brother Charles Wallace go on an amazing quest through the universe to find their father, with the help of 3 powerful new friends. Meg, Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin travel to many different planets in search of her father but end up destroying one of the greatest

“Mother, what’s the matter!” Meg cried. “What did she say? What is it?” “The tesseract—” Mrs. Murry whispered.” and “What is a tesseract?” Meg asked. “It’s a concept.” Mrs. Murry handed the twins the syrup. “I’ll try to explain it to you later. There isn’t time before school.”(L’engle 17 and 18). In the movie, Mrs. Murray seems a little flustered when Mrs. Which tells her that the tesseract is real but when Meg asks she doesn’t give an explanation. A few minutes later we find out what a tesseract is in a flashback Mrs. Murray has when explaining her work to Calvin. Mrs. Murray is willing to talk about a tesseract in the movie so there isn’t the tension and curiosity of needing to know for everything to make sense. These excerpts from the text prove that the book is better than the movie because every time Mrs. Murray is about to explain the tesseract she stops herself and tells Meg she will explain it later. Now that you have come so close to figuring out what a tesser is you can’t help what want to have a whole explanation and have to continue reading the book to find out. In the movie to find out what a tesser is we see all kinds of non-relevant information before realizing what a tesseract is. L’engle has used the natural curiosity of human beings to keep her readers hooked on her

“Mrs Whatsit loves me; that’s what she told me, that she loves me,” suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.” (L’engle 100). In this part of the book Meg has just realized the only way to defeat IT is with love. This is also a great way to deliver a theme of the book, which is exactly what L’engle did. She made the weakness of IT love so that she could show her readers that love is a very powerful force that can take down any hate or darkness. In the movie Meg uses love to defeat IT but without knowing Meg’s thoughts, we can’t understand that she is thinking about love and realizing that love is stronger than hate. The theme that love is more powerful than darkness is delivered in the movie, but to find it you have to look deep and search for it. Meg’s actions show the theme but by knowing her thoughts we can figure out the theme easier than by just watching Meg’s