A WRINKLE IN TIME

MEG MURRY

• Meg Murry is the twelve-year-old heroine of the story. Not like her beautiful mother, Meg is plain. She wears glasses and has braces on her teeth, and she thinks she is unattractive. She does poorly in school even though she is good at math and science. But she solves math problems in her own way rather than the way she is taught at school. Meg can be dumb, impatient and angry, but these personalities come in useful when she has to resist IT. Meg also loves her brother Charles Wallace dearly, and it is this quality that helps her to win him away from IT. She also learns that she must take responsibility for saving Charles herself, rather than waiting around for others to do it.

CHARLES WALLACE MURRY

• Charles Wallace Murry is a precocious five-year-old boy, the youngest son of the Murrys. He has a language far beyond what might be expected of a boy his age, although because he did not begin to speak until he was four, most people think he is stupid. Charles Wallace has a gift of understanding things that fall outside of normal human experience. It is he who first befriends the three ladies, and he has an amazing ability to know what others are thinking. He can even understand the wind talking to the trees. As a result, he is taken over by IT and only freed by Meg's love.

CALVIN O'KEEFE

• Calvin O'Keefe is a tall and skinny fourteen-year-old boy who meets Meg and Charles Wallace on the way to the haunted house. In comparison to Meg, Calvin is smart and very popular at school, being good at basketball and other sports. However, Meg is better at math than he is. Calvin enjoys the loving Murry family, which is such a comparison to his own. He accompanies Meg and Charles on their adventures, and develops feelings for Meg and tries to protect her.

MRS. WHATSIT

• Mrs. Whatsit is the first of the three old ladies that the Murry children meet. Later, on the planet Uriel, Mrs. Whatsit takes on another form, appearing as a beautiful creature with the lower parts resembling a horse but a torso, arms and head like a man. Of the three ladies, it is Mrs. Whatsit who is the best at explaining things to the children. She is over two billion years old, but she is the youngest of the three.

SUMMARY

• A Wrinkle In Time is the battle between the forces of light and darkness, or good and evil. The evil is represented by the Dark Thing, and transforms into the man with red eyes and IT. The representatives of light are involved in a struggle against darkness. The good characters are various. There are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Who, whose original forms, as seen as Uriel, seem to show bliss and joy. Mrs. Whatsit was originally a star that gave up its own life in the battle against darkness. The creatures on planet Ixchel are also defenders of the light against the darkness. Mr. Murry and the children are also on the side of the light.

QUOTE AND EXPLANATION

• Mrs. Murry says, "No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be." -It's kind of funny that Mrs. Murry uses the word "learned" here, since what she's learned is that you can't know everything. Instead of learning as gaining knowledge, here it's describing lack in knowledge

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