To find his father, Charles Wallace gives himself over to IT and becomes a shadow of himself. There, they learn about IT, the being that controls everyone on the planet. Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace tesser to Camazotz, where the Mrs. Murry’s government work with the tesseract (a way of traversing long distances without time passing) shot him into the darkness, and he is imprisoned on the planet Camazotz. The group travels to different planets, where Meg and the others learn about the evil darkness spreading across the universe. Which) retrieve the children, saying it’s time to rescue Meg’s father. Calvin followed a compulsion to take a walk, which led him to cross Meg and Charles Wallace’s path. The next day, Meg and Charles Wallace encounter Calvin O’Keefe, a boy Meg knows from school. When pressed, Meg’s mother won’t explain what a tesseract is to her children. The family is visited by the strange Mrs. Unable to sleep during a bad storm, Meg joins her mother and youngest brother, Charles Wallace, for a midnight snack. He is the only person who understands her, and without him, Meg sinks farther into self-loathing. Meg’s father disappeared without notice several years ago, and Meg wants nothing more than for him to return. The novel is told from the perspective of young Meg. This guide follows the 1973 reprinting from Dell Books. On a cross-country camping trip with her husband (Hugh Franklin) and her family, she observed the Earth’s own alien landscapes, which prompted the idea for A Wrinkle in Time. She received her degree in English from Smith College but struggled to get her work published for many years following. L’Engle was born in New York in 1918 and began writing at an early age. The book inspired two movie adaptations from Disney (20), three stage plays (1990, 2010, and 2014), and an opera (1992). It was also runner-up for the Hans Christian Anderson Award. The novel won several children’s book awards, including the Newbery Medal (1963), the Sequoyah Book Award, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. The book follows Margaret “Meg” Murry, her brilliant younger brother Charles Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe on a journey across the universe to rescue Meg’s father from the clutches of a malignant presence. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle is a science fiction novel for young readers, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1962.
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