Madeleine L’Engle faced the difficulties of life with a pen and paper. She sinks into her writing and uses it to answer her problems. She was only eighteen when her father died and her young age caused her to look at life in a very different way. Her books are often centralized around a search for a father (Zarin). L’Engle used her fears for her father to create the worlds and struggles between good and evil in the A Wrinkle in Time (Cotter 102). She uses younger children, such as Meg Murray and her younger brother Charles Wallace, as the main characters in A Wrinkle in Time to connect better with a younger audience (Hunter). Children tend to think more about the meaning of life and L’Engle was able to go into more depth with this in her novels (Zarin). Meg shows that the meaning of life comes from being loving and good and not being corrupted by evil and hate. L'Engle states that “[in] A Wrinkle in Time, which most people know best, I’m Meg.” (Veronica). Since Meg is modeled after L’Engle, Meg is able to express some of L’Engle’s deepest beliefs obtained through L’Engle’s difficulties in life like love conquers hate, the struggle between good versus evil, and to be an individual rather than conform to societal standards. Meg is L’Engle’s parallel in A Wrinkle in Time. L’Engle uses Meg to create a life she was never able to have (Zarin). L’Engle made the life in her books seem more real than reality (Cotter 92). L’Engle makes Meg feel like she did in school, lonely and outcast from the other students (Zarin). L’Engle thought that she was stupid and awkward and she made Meg feel that way too (Cotter 93). She pours feelings into Meg which she could not express herself. L’Engle makes Meg good at the things she was not in school suc... ... middle of paper ... ...8. Print. Daly, Anne Carson. “L'Engle L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time.” World & I. June 1995: 378. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 27 Jan. 2014. Hunter, Karen. “L'Engle L’Engle.” L'Engle L’Engle 2005:1-2. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 27 Jan. 2014. L’Engle, L'Engle. “Focus On The Story, Not Readers…” Writer Apr 2010: p. 24-25. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. Schick, Elizabeth A., ed. Current Biography Yearbook. vol 1997. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1997. 317-320. Print. Veronica, Sister Mary. “L'Engle L’Engle.” Book Report Nov/Dec 94:p. 24. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. “Wonder Girl, Wonder Women: L'Engle L’Engle.” New Moon Girls Nov/Dec 2009: 18-20. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 27 Jan 2014. Zarin, Cynthia. “The Storyteller.” New Yorker 4 Dec. 2014: n. pag. newyorker.com,n.d. Web.19 Feb. 2014.
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A Wrinkle In Time is an example of great American literature. It is a plot-based novel with something always happening while an obstacle is standing in the way. Most of the conflict occurring in this book is person versus self and person versus supernatural. A certain aspect that is very prevalent in this book is love. This love takes the characters on the trip of a lifetime, for the sole purpose of finding her father. This love in the background is not known by the reader until the last few pages, and ends up encompassing and explaining the whole novel.
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In Mr.Dejong’s language arts class, we were reading Wrinkle in time. In this essay, I will tell you why Madeleine L'Engle wrote this book and also what Wrinkle in Time taught myself about science.
Oates herself draws this connection as she writes, “Mom described herself as a ‘fool about a clock’” (237). These clocks show her desire to hold on - to the past, to her family, and to their way of life. Corinne struggles throughout the novel as she tries desperately to keep her family alive. Without her, they surely would have crumbled and fallen apart completely, unable to ever be mended. Each clock also says a different time, none of them being the correct time, which symbolizes her desire for any other time than the present. Whether this means the seemingly happy family of the past or a healed family of the future, she craves a change from her current situation. Corinne believes that this period is truly just a phase that will pass with time. She thinks to herself, “They were all going through a phase, the entire Mulvaney family, and they’d come out of it soon? Just a phase - the very words made everything seem hopeful again” (Oates 166-167). Corinne’s desires to hold on to her family and stop its decay over time is shown by the clocks that litter her home and the walls of her
thought very little of herself, to a strong girl that knows she can save her brother. Unlike most people, Meg is a very unique person and she has many different
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I have just read the book A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. It is about a trio of children that have set out to find their dad, that has been missing due to his science experiments. While Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin travel through the universe, they run into many strange characters that help move the story along.This book was great and I highly recommend it. Madeleine L’Engle accomplished many things in this book and I will be explaining my thinking on three of them. While reading this book I have decided to pick the lens of Characters, the frame of Conflicts, and then to focus on any themes that I notice as well.
Throughout the book, Madeleine L’Engle talks about love. One example of this is love shown between the humans. The Murray children, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their friend Calvin, take a perilous journey through another dimension out of love for their missing father. Throughout their journey the main
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The setting for this novel was a constantly shifting one. Taking place during what seems to be the Late Industrial Revolution and the high of the British Empire, the era is portrayed amongst influential Englishmen, the value of the pound, the presence of steamers, railroads, ferries, and a European globe.
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