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Character Analysis: A Wrinkle In Time

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The book, A Wrinkle in Time, is about a young girl named Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin, who go on a journey to find Meg and Charles’s father. They have to go through many obstacles but are reunited with him in the end. The author's worldview of the novel is that one is stronger than they think despite the challenges they may face, which can clearly be seen through the centralized theme, the characters, symbols, and the time period in which the novel was published; the movie adaptation did a mediocre job of portraying each of these.
Throughout the book, Meg encountered many challenges that jumped in her way. The lessons she learned contributed to the theme of the entire book. One being, she was forced …show more content…

He wanted to see them happy, unlike how his life was with his own family. His family didn’t care what he did or celebrate his accomplishments. Alvin meets with meg and charges because of how he puts it “when I get this feeling this compulsion, I always do what it tells me (L’engle page 39) During the journey to save Meg and Charles father he felt it was his duty to protect them, especially Meg. He was the brave one who'd been chosen to occupy them on their trip and worked delightedly along with them to find their …show more content…

The symbols of darkness and lightness and the theme of love were seen throughout the movie. In the movie, however Charles Wallace doesn’t seem like a gifted child at first, he is more of a regular, playful kid. By not showing how Charles Wallace was unexplainable bright at first, made matters weird when he started saying intelligent phrases as the movie went on. The movie also introduced Mrs. Whatsit earlier than the book. A crow was appeared on Meg’s window which ended up being Mrs. Whatsit who is one of the ladies who helps Meg, Charles and Calvin on their journey. The darkness is immediately seen as bad when they get into the first planet and they look through the crystal. On Camazotz, the people are still computerized like in the book. However, a little girl sees Charles Wallace, Meg and decides to report them instead of them figuring out the way to go in the book. How Charles Wallace transferred into the mind control of IT is a bit different. Charles Wallace willingly goes into joining the mind of IT through the red eyed man in the book. In the movie, Charles was persuaded and bribed by the red eyed man into joining the mind of IT. Charles Wallace was seen as weaker person in the movie because of being persuaded instead of going by his free will to join the IT. The love between the brother and sister is seen throughout the movie. Meg, like in the book, would do anything for Charles Wallace and doesn't hesitat when

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