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
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.
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.
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