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Madeleine L Engle's A Wrinkle In Time

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Different forms of speech can affect one’s belief for long periods of time. In Madeleine L’Engle’s science fiction novel, “A Wrinkle in Time,” the children in this excerpt create tension between them and the man with the red eyes. Inside the novel, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin encounter the red-eyed man on their journey to find Meg’s missing father. The Man tries to hypnotize the children to put them under his power. Thus Charles Wallace ends up under his spell, and the kids are scared for what is yet to come. The man with the red eyes communicates non-verbally in order to control the children, but Charles Wallace prefers to speak with spoken words to defend himself. Since the man with the red-eyes wants to control and manipulate the
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