A Wrinkle in Time

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A Wrinkle in Time

• Author Madeleine LEngle

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Characters

• Margaret (Meg)
• Charles Wallace
• Calvin
• Mrs. Murry
• Mr. Murry
• Sandy and Dennys Murry
• Mrs. Whatsit
• Mrs. Who
• Mrs. Which

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Margaret (Meg)

• Meg is the main character of the story. She is a
  teenage girl who has some problems in school just
  as anyone else. Her mission in the book was to
  find her father and to bring him home. But when
  something twisted happens, she has a new mission
  to save Charles Wallace.

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Charles Wallace

• Charles Wallace is another main character of this
  story. He is a five year old boy who stays at
  home with his mother while the other three
  children go to school. Meg and his mother are the
  ones that he is truly interested in. His mission
  was also to save his father in which he really
  never met. When something happens to him, he is
  not himself anymore.

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Calvin

• Calvin is a young man who met Meg when Meg went
  to go meet one of Mrs. Whatsits friends. He went
  with Meg to go find her father and assisted her
  through her journey.

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Mrs. Murry

• Mrs. Murry is the mother of Meg, Charles Wallace,
  Dennys, And Sandy. She raises four children alone
  while Mr. Murry is away on a mission.

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Mr. Murry

• Mr. Murry is the father of Meg, Charles Wallace,
  Dennys, and Sandy. He went away on a mission
  shortly after Charles Wallace was born. His
  mission was to test tessering and to experiment
  with it. It went wrong. He tried it and ended
  getting trapped on Camazotz.

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Sandy and Dennys Murry

• Sandy and Dennys Murry are the two Murry twins
  who are said to be the only normal children in
  the family. They always stick up for their
  brother and sister, but it doesnt change the
  fact that they are the only normal children in
  the family.

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Mrs. Whatsit Mrs. Who Mrs. Which

• These three ladies are the key for Meg to find
  her father and to save Charles Wallace. They have
  the mighty power to help assist Meg and get her
  to where she needs to go.

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Book Summary (part 1)

• The book starts out introducing the characters.
  These characters include Meg Murry, Charles
  Wallace Murry, Mrs. Murry, Sandy Murry, Dennys
  Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and
  Calvin OKeefe. These characters are not all
  important to the story, but they do add some
  detail to it. The beginning is just about how
  Calvin and the three Mrs. Ws got into the story.

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Book Summary (part 2)

• Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace go back to Megs
  house and they have some stew before they find
  out they are to go to another planet to find
  Megs father. Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs.
  Which take Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace to
  another planet by tessering. They arrived on
  another planet and Mrs. Whatsit turned into a
  different creature and explains a black thing to
  Meg and the two boys.

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Book Summary (part 3)

• The three Mrs. Ws take the other three to the
  happy medium. While they are there, they get to
  see what is going on at home. There wasnt much,
  but the happy medium did not want the three to
  finish the mission. After that, all six of the
  people tessered to Camazotz. The three Ws told
  the children that they each had a gift and that
  they should use them to help them in their
  search. Mrs. Who left her glasses and said only
  use them in desperate measures. They also told
  the children that Charles Wallace was in the most
  danger and they needed to stay together.

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Book Summary (part 4)

• After arriving on Camazotz, the children learn
  that it is a perfect society. They are puzzled by
  the way that the people act. When they arrive at
  the CENTRAL central intelligence building, they
  find that they were being waited for. The man
  with red eyes made Charles Wallace look like he
  was a zombie. Charles Wallace was in complete
  mind control.

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Book Summary (part 5)

• Now that Charles Wallace was being controlled by
  the man with red eyes, he led the other two
  children to Mr. Murry without even knowing he did
  it. Meg used Mrs. Whos glasses to get inside the
  cage that held her father hostage and they
  escaped. Then it was time to go see IT.

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Book Summary (part 6)

• When the three saw IT, they all got scared. IT
  was a brain. It was a bodiless brain that had
  control over other bodies. Meg, Calvin, and Mr.
  Murry got away but left Charles Wallace because
  they thought that if they tried to take him away
  from IT by pulling him, something bad might
  happen.

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Book Summary (part 7)

• The three arrived on a planet that they didnt
  even know about. When they got there, they met
  the beasts. The beasts helped them so that they
  could reenergize to be ready to go back to
  Camazotz. When Meg was getting anxious to save
  Charles Wallace, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and
  Mrs. Who arrived to take Meg back to get Charles
  Wallace.

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Book Summary (part 8)

• Mrs. Who took Meg back to Camazotz. She was ready
  to fight IT and get Charles Wallace back. She
  didnt give up. Eventually, she won. Charles
  Wallace was not under brain control. They were
  tessered back to earth and the family was
  reunited at last.

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What is a tesseract?

• A tesseract is a wrinkle. It is a wrinkle in
  time. It is a shortcut in traveling. It is the
  fifth dimension. With the hard journey of the
  children, they took a shortcut to a planet that
  would have taken years to get to. This wrinkle is
  a way to travel in time.

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The continuing adventures

• Madeleine LEngle wrote more books of the Murry
  family. Their adventures continue in four more
  adventures. These books are called
• A Wind in the Door
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• Many Waters
• An Acceptable Time
• These books are available at the Lakeside Library
  and at the Millville Public Library.