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"A Wrinkle In Time" - College Essays

"A Wrinkle In Time"


Madeline L'Engle's Newbery Award Medal winner not only fits Joseph Campbell's Hero Quest and The Call to Adventures' outline very closely but it also reflects the relationship between God and Satan and how we deal with battling between them in our own lives. The three main areas that this fantasy story touched on were blunder, the crossing of the first threshold, and the return of the hero back to his home. The main characters of the story were Mr. and Mrs. Murray, two of their four children Meg (age 13) and Charles Wallace (age 5), their friend Calvin (age 13), and the three good heralds (Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs Which, age very old) versus the evil IT (Burnett 1).
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disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart- stopping journey through space" (L'Engle 215)?
The story begins with the unsolved disappearance of Mr. Murray in the midst of one of his scientific experiments. The blunder was the quest to find out what happened to him and bring him back home to relieve mothers heartache. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin were granted help in finding Mr. Murray from the three heralds, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. They (the Mrs's) each gave their own input and power in assisting the children on their journey and they explained to them that they will need to tesser (the form of travel in which they used) in order to reach father's destination. Before their journey began Mrs. Whatsit informed the children that the fifth dimension was a tesseract and that they would feel a little uncomfortably strange while ...

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find any information leading to Mr. Murray's whereabouts (Handout). The building contained people who were sitting around like statues reflecting the green marbled walls against their faces.
The children walked down the end of a hallway to a man that was sitting on a chair. After finding out that the children were strangers to the planet Camazotz the man became fearful of being reprocessed by a machine and had to resort in keeping the children until they were processed themselves. While waiting to be seen by someone in authority the man with red eyes was able to hypnotize Charles Wallace, turning him into a heartless boy.

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