Themes In Meg Murry's A Wrinkle In Time

The book, A Wrinkle in Time, is about a young girl named Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin, who go on a journey to find Meg and Charles’s father. They have to go through many obstacles but are reunited with him in the end. The author's worldview of the novel is that one is stronger than they think despite the challenges they face which can clearly be seen through the centralized themes, the characters, symbols, and the time period in which the novel was published; the movie adaption did a mediocre job of portraying each of these.
Throughout the book, Meg encountered many challenges that got in her way. The lessons she learned became the themes of the entire book. One being, she was forced to get out of her …show more content…
The love for all the characters is widely shown, although Meg and Charles Wallace have the strongest love of all. There was something unexplainable about them they couldn't help but always be by each other's side. Throughout the journey to search for their father they never once forgot to look out for each other. Even when Charles Wallace was taken over by IT, Meg never doubted once she knew the real him and the IT was making him evil. When Meg saw Charles in this state she wanted to save him but didn’t know how. She assumed her father would be able to figure it out. Later she found out her father couldn't possibly do it because he didn’t know enough about Charles Wallace to save him. Meg made her decision, she begged her father, “Please. If I’ve got to go then I want to go and get it over with. Each minute you put it off makes it harder. (L’Engle pg. 195) Her father decided it was the only way to go. Before she went to save him, Mrs. Which gave her the gift of Love. When she went to fight the IT, she professed her love for brother and family. IT nurtured no love and couldn't take it and quickly let Charles Wallace …show more content…
He introduces Meg to the Mrs. Who, Mrs. What and Mrs. Which. These three women help Charles, Meg and Calvin on their mission to find their father. Charles Wallace always perceived the impression he was smarter than everyone but it ended up being his own downfall. He wanted everyone to know he was going to help them if needed but in the end, he needed helping. He was taken over by the IT because he wanted to read the man with the red eyes mind but couldn’t. Charles wanted something so bad he risked his life for everything. The IT powered him in a way destructive way. He wasn’t happy, he was content like all the other people on Camazotz. He said things to his sister he would never say to her otherwise. For a while, he simply contained not a caring bone in his body. When Meg overcame the power of IT; he was glad to be back to normal and knew he could use capability for the good now despite the evil he