A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle was given the Newberry Award in 1963 (a great year).
For those of you who enjoy the type of stories that stretch your mind beyond every day reality, this is one of those books. Here we have a scientist who has learned how to travel through time, distance, and dimensions. Although he has not mastered this type of travel, he has discovered how to open the door. The story begins with Mr. Murry already gone for sometime and his family faithfully awaits his arrival home.
The Murry family consists of four children and a beautiful mother. Mr. and Mrs. Murry are both scientist, however, Mr. Murry is a scientist who works for the government. The Murry children are Margaret (a.k.a. Meg), Charles Wallace, Dennys and Sandy (the twins). Charles Wallace and Margaret meet up with an older boy named Calvin O'Keeffe. Calvin is popular, strong, and smart.
Charles Wallace is a young prodigy. The town kids and adults all think he is a little off. He doesn't talk in the presence of others except with his family. Meg is a whizz with math, yet, she becomes too board at school and continually gets in trouble. She is impatient. Charles Wallace and Meg are inseparable. They spend a lot of time together.
One day Charles Wallace asks Meg to go for a walk in the woods. They walk to an old house and stumble across Calvin O'Keeffe. Meg and Calvin don't know the exact reasons why they came to the house but Charles Wallace seems to know. There they meet Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit. These three characters tell them about the tesseract, traveling great distances of space in a short period of time.
Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace realized that Mr. Murry has traveled through the tessaract and has been unable to return. Their mission, with the help of the three W's, is to find Mr. Murry and bring him home. They travel great distances past several galaxy's. They landed on the planet called Camazotz. This planet was like no other. The people were like robots yet they weren't robots. They lived as if their life was a scheduled performance. An act that was to be played exactly with every move. It was weird and erry. The kids discovered that the planet was controlled by a bodiless brain called IT. This IT controlled every one's thinking, actions, and emotions. Basically, this brain was like a central computer that operated all of the machines connected to it.
The kids discovered where Mr. Murry was being held prisoner. IT was unable to get inside Mr. Murry's head and take control of him. IT was trying to break him down and take control of his mind. In their attempts to save him, Charles Wallace was taken over by IT. IT was unable to take over Mr. Murry's mind, Meg's mind, nor Calvin's mind. In the end, Meg saves her brother from the strong grip of IT by giving him what IT did not have...LOVE. She told Charles Wallace that she loved him. As tense moments passed, the hold that IT had on Charles Wallace was broken.
The children, with the help of the three W's, used the tessaract to travel back to earth. There they found themselves in the twin's vegetable garden around 4:00 pm. It was as if Charles Wallace, Calvin and Meg were gone but only a day. There in the garden the family reunited.
I really enjoyed this book. It was filled with mystery, time travel, space travel, and concepts that have validity. Although I am not a mathematician, I have heard of the mathematical possibility of time and space travel. Is it true? Don't know nor do I have the time or energy to explore the possibility. However, the concept is intriguing and fun to think about from time to time. Although I am not sure but I believe that A Wrinkle in Time is one book of many. As if it is a part of a larger story. As time permits, I'll pick up one or two of the other books (if they exist) and learn a little more about the Murry family and Calvin O'Keeffe.
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For those of you who enjoy the type of stories that stretch your mind beyond every day reality, this is one of those books. Here we have a scientist who has learned how to travel through time, distance, and dimensions. Although he has not mastered this type of travel, he has discovered how to open the door. The story begins with Mr. Murry already gone for sometime and his family faithfully awaits his arrival home.
The Murry family consists of four children and a beautiful mother. Mr. and Mrs. Murry are both scientist, however, Mr. Murry is a scientist who works for the government. The Murry children are Margaret (a.k.a. Meg), Charles Wallace, Dennys and Sandy (the twins). Charles Wallace and Margaret meet up with an older boy named Calvin O'Keeffe. Calvin is popular, strong, and smart.
Charles Wallace is a young prodigy. The town kids and adults all think he is a little off. He doesn't talk in the presence of others except with his family. Meg is a whizz with math, yet, she becomes too board at school and continually gets in trouble. She is impatient. Charles Wallace and Meg are inseparable. They spend a lot of time together.
One day Charles Wallace asks Meg to go for a walk in the woods. They walk to an old house and stumble across Calvin O'Keeffe. Meg and Calvin don't know the exact reasons why they came to the house but Charles Wallace seems to know. There they meet Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit. These three characters tell them about the tesseract, traveling great distances of space in a short period of time.
Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace realized that Mr. Murry has traveled through the tessaract and has been unable to return. Their mission, with the help of the three W's, is to find Mr. Murry and bring him home. They travel great distances past several galaxy's. They landed on the planet called Camazotz. This planet was like no other. The people were like robots yet they weren't robots. They lived as if their life was a scheduled performance. An act that was to be played exactly with every move. It was weird and erry. The kids discovered that the planet was controlled by a bodiless brain called IT. This IT controlled every one's thinking, actions, and emotions. Basically, this brain was like a central computer that operated all of the machines connected to it.
The kids discovered where Mr. Murry was being held prisoner. IT was unable to get inside Mr. Murry's head and take control of him. IT was trying to break him down and take control of his mind. In their attempts to save him, Charles Wallace was taken over by IT. IT was unable to take over Mr. Murry's mind, Meg's mind, nor Calvin's mind. In the end, Meg saves her brother from the strong grip of IT by giving him what IT did not have...LOVE. She told Charles Wallace that she loved him. As tense moments passed, the hold that IT had on Charles Wallace was broken.
The children, with the help of the three W's, used the tessaract to travel back to earth. There they found themselves in the twin's vegetable garden around 4:00 pm. It was as if Charles Wallace, Calvin and Meg were gone but only a day. There in the garden the family reunited.
I really enjoyed this book. It was filled with mystery, time travel, space travel, and concepts that have validity. Although I am not a mathematician, I have heard of the mathematical possibility of time and space travel. Is it true? Don't know nor do I have the time or energy to explore the possibility. However, the concept is intriguing and fun to think about from time to time. Although I am not sure but I believe that A Wrinkle in Time is one book of many. As if it is a part of a larger story. As time permits, I'll pick up one or two of the other books (if they exist) and learn a little more about the Murry family and Calvin O'Keeffe.
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