A Wrinkle in time Book review

I read the book, A Wrinkle In Time and also watched the movie to go along with it. The book was written by Madeline L'engle and won the 1963 Newbery Medal. The movie and the book have many similarities and differences, but before I list those I will give a summary of the book.
                                 Summary

  In the book A Wrinkle In Time there is a family of five. Meg is the oldest of the four children and she is never pleased with herself because she has glasses and braces. Charles Wallace is the youngest. Somehow he has the ability to read people in a way; he sort of knows what they are thinking. The twins fall in between the ages. While Charles Wallace was still a baby their father had disappeared without any reason. He worked in a secret force in the government. The people who were in charge of the force said that he was fine, but nobody in the force believed this because they used to send him letters and he would reply, though now when they sent him letters he would not reply.

  One night a woman named Ms. Whatsit  came knocking on the door. She was covered in sheets and scarves, she also wore rubber boots. Charles Wallace claimed to have known her, but nobody else in the family did. When she was leaving she said something about a tesseract. This startled the children's mother because the tesseract was joked about between her and her husband who had disappeared. 

  The day after Ms. Whatsit's visit Charles Wallace took Meg to the haunted house where Ms. Whatsit lived so that Meg could properly meet her. Instead of finding Ms. Whatsit at the haunted house they found a boy named Calvin. Calvin was popular being the best player on the basketball team. Charles Wallace invited Calvin to his house for dinner.

  While at the house the three children were transferred to another planet. This type of transportation was called tessering. On the planet that they were transferred or tessered to Ms. Whatsit was there. She explained that a tesseract was a wrinkle in time She used an ant for her example. If the ant was on one side of her skirt then it would take a while for the ant to get to the other side of the skirt, though if there was a wrinkle in the skirt then the ant would get to the other side quickly. After the explanation about the tesseract the children met Ms. Who and Ms. Which. Ms. Who found it hard to speak her own words so she used quotes from other people instead. Ms. Which was wise and would be right about nearly everything. The planet that they were on was beautiful. Ms. Whatsit turned into a creature that looked like it was half man- half pegasus. The children rode on the transformed Ms. Whatsit while exploring the beauty of the planet. All sorts of creatures flew throughout the skies and sang a merry song. Ms. Whatsit flew the children to a place where they could see a big cloud of darkness. The cloud scared the three children, though they later found out that the cloud overshadowed Earth. Meg and charles Wallace's father was on another overshadowed planet and the children would have to save him without the Ms. Ws.

  The children arrived at the planet. Every thing on the planet was following the same rhythm and everyone was doing the same thing. This was caused by something called IT. Charles Wallace was afraid because he could not read these people like he could read the people on Earth.
  The three children reached a big building. Inside of the building there was a man who had red eyes. The man made Charles Wallace think that he would be fine if he drew himself to the man, though when he did he began to be a different person; he had the same body but the Charles Wallace speaking was not the same.
  Later Meg found her father and had accomplished what she came to do, but now she had to get the real Charles Wallace back. Charles Wallace Was taken over by IT. IT was inside of a dome shaped building. When Meg, her father, and Calvin arrived at the building their heart, lungs, and other organs worked at the same tempo. Meg tried to fight the rhythm, but IT was too strong and IT nearly killed her. Before IT could hurt her too bad her father tessered himself, Meg, and Calvin to another planet.
  This planet was colorless. The creatures that lived on the planet came to the three and offered to care for Meg because she was sort of hurt. Once Meg as feeling better the Ms. Ws decided that it would be best that she return to the planet where Charles Wallace was alone to try to defeat IT again.
  Meg returned to the planet and defeated IT using the one thing that IT did not have which was love; she said to Charles Wallace repetitively that she loved him.
  IT was part of the darkness and when IT was defeated the darkness was defeated too.
  In the end Meg, Charles Wallace, their father, and Calvin returned happily back to the planet that was now no longer shadowed: Earth.



                                 Similarities and differences
The book and movie have some differences. One difference is that some people are mentioned more or less in the movie than they are in the book. Another difference that I noticed was that some of the events that happened in the book were either switched around or not mentioned in the movie causing a somewhat different outcome. somewhat different outcome. For example: In the book first Charles Wallace became controlled by IT and then his father was found, but in the book The father was found first. Another example is that in the book meg and Calvin met Ms. Who and Ms. Which after they tessered, though in the movie it was vice versa.



                                             Conclusion
A Wrinkle In Time was an adventurous book about how love can do anything (even save the universe). I thought that it was easy to understand the meaning of the book and that the picture that the book produced was clear. I enjoyed this bok and hope to read the next on in the series too.

Do you want to eat a snow cone- Rewrite of do you want to build a snow man

Do you want to eat a snow cone?
Oh yes I know you do

When you eat snow cones,
you calm your tone
and you're in a happy mood

If you had a snow cone
you'd never sigh
and especially not cry

Do you want to eat a snow cone?
(I'll make a fluffy snow cone)

I already have one

Okay, sigh
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Do you want to eat a snow cone?
Or eat a yummy piece of cake

It's kind of hard to stand here
never knowing what to make

It's hardly ever easy
just to wait along 
and keep on singing this song

La La La La La La La La
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Please,
I know you want one

I really know you do

I have to stand here

and wait along 
and finish this song 
all until you say I do

It's only frozen water
all crushed up

It doesn't taste like dog food

Do you want to eat a snow cone?

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is a sport that takes lots of endurance and strength. Our neighbors own an indoor rock climbing gym called Stone Moves. I am on the rock climbing team, so every Tuesday and Thursday night I get to go and climb according to the schedule assigned to that night. For the past few weeks we (me and the rest of the people on the team) have had four stations that we have gone to every night. The first station is top roping where we climb to the top of a top roping wall. Then we get lowered down to the ground by our partner. In the second station we do four by fours. When you do four by fours you climb four different bouldering walls (a bouldering wall is a wall that is shorter than a top roping wall and also at a greater angle) four times each. The third station that we would go to would be the traverse. During the traverse we climb horizontally across all of the top roping walls. Whenever we finish we climb back to the start of the traverse. The last station is my "favorite". We head upstairs into the small workout area that they have and we do pull ups, push ups, bicep curls and more. This is extremely tiring, yet it is also effective; all of these workouts make you stronger. We aren't supposed to grab just any holds that we see on the wall to get to the top. All of the holds on the wall are marked with different colors of tape. Every color is meant for a different level. For example if you were a beginner in rock climbing then you would climb a white route (a route marked with only white tape for your hands and feet) because white routes are the easiest. If you were advanced in your climbing you might be able to do a black route (a route marked with black tape), black is the hardest level.


I will list some of the equipment that we use so that we don't end up hurting ourselves.

1. a climbing rope is attached to the climber's and the belayer's  harness  so that the climber will not fall to the ground if they slip on a hold. Ropes are not needed on bouldering walls because they aren't tall enough to allow you to hurt yourself when you fall.

2. A harness is put around a person's waist and is attached to the rope.

3. A bag of climbing chalk is attached to your harness. Climbing chalk is rubbed onto the hands so that sweat won't cause you to slip.

 

4. Climbing shoes have a point at the end so that you can step on small footholds. This is the climbing shoe that I have.

5. This is the tape that I mentioned earlier. It is put on the wall so that you know where to place your hands and feet based on your climbing level. You may want to click on the second picture to better see the tape.

The first picture is of a top roping wall and the second is of a bouldering wall. Notice how much taller the top roping wall is. Also notice the angle of the bouldering wall.




Here is one more image to show how belaying works.