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At the very beginning of this chapter Meg does not know where she is. She tries to yell for Charles and tries to grab Calvin's hand. Mrs.whatsit turns into big beautiful white ,half horse and half human creature. Mrs.Whatsit asks the three young children to pick blue flowers and later on they go up very high on Mrs. Whatsit ‘s flying back. The children can’t breath they were losing oxygen ,but then they breathed through the blue beautiful flowers. Mrs. Whatsit the beautiful white creature took them up to the dark space. She took them up there to show them where the black thing was. Near the end of the chapter they see Mrs. Who and Mrs. Witch. Meg wanders at the end of the chapter if her father was fighting the black thing. This black

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