In A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’engle, the characters have to use love to save each other. Without love, none of the characters would survive. These things surround the overall theme of the novel: Love. L’engle helps the readers know that anyone could be hero by doing anything, and you should be nice to everyone. In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murry doesn’t know that she is loved by people because she thinks that no one likes her because of the way she acts. Meg finds it hard to find friends. In this excerpt, Meg and her brother struggle to find their father who has gone missing for two years. Love can save us from dangerous people and situations. The theme of love in the novel demonstrates how good can conquer evil when Meg uses love to save her brother, when knowing she is loved given her the strength to do when she needs to do and Charles’ love for his father ultimately saves him.
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Look deep within them and I will tell you”, said The Man with the Red Eyes (119). Charles Wallace looked quickly at Meg and Calvin, then said, as thought to himself, “I have to” (120).This shows that Charles was going to let the man hypnotize him is because Charles wants IT to take him to his father. Charles would do anything to save his father like sacrificing himself in the book. L’engle seems to be referring to the verse from the gospel of John, ”Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”-John 15:13.The verse explains that the best thing a person can do to a friend is sacrifice themselves. These verses explain that the best kind of love is when someone sacrifices life to save someone else’s life like Charles did for his
One example of the theme of love demonstrated in the …show more content…
Look deep within them and I will tell you”, said The Man with the Red Eyes (119). Charles Wallace looked quickly at Meg and Calvin, then said, as thought to himself, “I have to” (120).This shows that Charles was going to let the man hypnotize him is because Charles wants IT to take him to his father. Charles would do anything to save his father like sacrificing himself in the book. L’engle seems to be referring to the verse from the gospel of John, ”Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”-John 15:13.The verse explains that the best thing a person can do to a friend is sacrifice themselves. These verses explain that the best kind of love is when someone sacrifices life to save someone else’s life like Charles did for his