A Wrinkle In Time

In A Wrinkle in Time, the initial setting is small New England Town, with Meg Murry’s safe, loving home, and boring rural high school. The action takes place during the latter half of the twentieth century. Later, the setting changes to wild interplanetary landscapes, most notably the rigid totalitarian planet Camazotz. The book starts with the reader gets introduced to Meg, Murry and her family and gets to know their situation and her problems. In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin oppose the forces of darkness to save both Meg and Charles’s father and the world as we know it. The children fight particularly against the aspect of society that seeks conformity and uniformity of all its members; they fight for individuality and free will. In addition to this conflict, Meg herself is internally conflicted, …show more content…
Whatsit, comes to the Murry house for a late-night snack. In the process, she mentions a mysterious word, “tesseract,” that is somehow connected to Meg’s missing father and his highly secret government work. During the rising action of the story, Meg and Charles Wallace investigate the three “witches,” meet Calvin, and set off on their journey, finally arriving at Camazotz, the “shadowed” planet where Meg’s father is being held captive. In a dramatic confrontation with the hideous disembodied “IT,” Meg battles for her freedom and that of her family and friends, using emotion (anger and impatience) as a weapon to counter her antagonist’s monstrous insistence on isolated reason and restrictive order. She is able to resist, but Charles Wallace falls into the antagonist’s trap because of his overconfidence in his own intelligence. The falling action takes place as Meg, Calvin, and Meg’s father escape from Camazotz, leaving Charles Wallace held captive by “IT.” They again encounter the three “witches,” and Meg is sent back to the shadowed planet to try to release Charles Wallace from the spell that holds