Molly Walsh
Post 5 (Post 1 for A Wrinkle in Time)
January 16, 2012
A Wrinkle in Time was a delightful book filled with a magical plot, really compelling characters, and a creepy evil brain bad guy. This book was really meaningful and it had a lot of deeper layers that could be read into. While reading this book, I found it was a coming of age story for Meg, who was in a really tough spot in her life. Nothing was going right because her father was gone and everyone was giving her a rough time at school. She didn’t really have anyone to rely one other than her brother, Charles Wallace. As she traveled through space to the different planets, she seemed to grow stronger and more capable. It was like she realized her strengths and that there was more to life than her jerky principal. She grew as a character throughout the book and as she went through her crazy adventure, she became more confident to be her own person even if no one else approves.
Being one’s self was a strong theme in the book. We soon found out that Meg, and the Murray family as a whole was always a little different and their small New England town did not always appreciate their differences. The children always made fun of Meg and her little brother Charles Wallace, and then Meg beat up the bullies. That would send her to the principal’s office, where he was unsympathetic and even took part in the spreading of the rumors that were going around town about Meg’s father. Even though there was so much pressure to be normal, Meg stayed herself and liked her family for what they were.
As the book progressed, there was a time when Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin traveled to the planet, Camazots, where everyone was exactly the same and no one could step out of the role that they were given. This part illustrated a world where no one was an individual and how tragic that would be. Meg realized that being herself was far better than living in fear of being different.
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