Wrinkle in time summary of the entire book – Flashcards

-It is a dark and stormy night -Mr. Berkins threatens her to be dropped down a grade and is compared to her parents -You figure out that her Dad has been missing for many years -She thinks a tramp is wandering around her house -She thinks the tramp stole 12 bed sheets from the constable's wife Ms.Buncombe -She tries to calm her fears by making some cocoa in the kitchen and is surprised when she finds her brother (she thinks he is capable of reading her mind) -Mrs. Murry joins too and tells Meg that she has received a call from Mrs. Henderson (mother of the boy Meg had beaten up at school -Meg complains of being the "oddball" at school and wishes she was more like the twins -Mrs. Murry tells Meg she needs to know the meaning of moderation and the importance of finding the "happy medium" -Charles says he has spoken to Mrs. Whasit about Meg's problem and he refuses to tell who she is -Charles prepares sandwiches and Fortinbras barks loudly Ms. Murry checks what the noise is she finds out that Meg's suspicion was true and Ms. Whatsit stays for sandwiches Challenges and faults for Meg : thinks she is an oddball in school, does not fit in, and wants to be normal like the twins and has a temper and is insecure especially about her appearance since she thinks she is ugly compared to her beautiful mother, people at her school accuse her of acting immature, she lacks confidence Challenges for Mrs. Murry: misses her husband a lot Challenges for Charles: arrogance, curiosity and intelligence, sometimes over-confident

-Meg wakes up and wonders if it was all a dream -At school she gets kicked out of her social sciences class for being rude and Mr. Jenkins says that Mr. Murry left her good -Meg, Charles and Fortinbras visit the haunted house (Mrs. Whatsit's house) -Fortinbras starts barking alerting Calvin's presence (popular athlete 3rd of 11 children in his family) and he explains how he was escaping his family -But upon further questioning by Charles Wallace, Calvin admits that the house itself also seemed to exert a strong and inexplicable force on him that afternoon -Charles invites him home for dinner -Charles, Meg and Calvin go to the haunted house and find Mrs. Who sewing Mrs. Buncombe's sheets and a black pot boils beside her -Charles asks Mrs. Who if she knows Calvin and she speaks in foreign languages quotes -Then she translates to english and she says that Calvin is a good choice -Meg asks Charles what is wrong with Mrs. Who and why she talks in foreign languages and Charles says he does't know yet and they go home for dinner at the Murry house Meg's challenges and faults: She has no interest for rote memorization and tedious book learning, after school she is unable to understand tacit assumptions Meg's good stuff: we see the power of love which will soon triumph over evil Charle's good stuff: can understand Mrs. W's thoughts and he doesn't know how

-Meg, Charles, and Calvin return home and Mrs. Murry is making a stew over her bunsen burner -Calvin calls his mother to tell her that he will not be home for dinner even though he doubts his mother will notice his absence -Before dinner Meg shows Calvin a picture of her father -Meg helps Calvin with math and physics and Mrs. Murry explains how Mr. Murry taught Meg number shortcuts -After dinner Clavin reads to Charles and Meg sits with her mother downstairs she tells her that everything has an explanation (expressing grief of her husband's absence) -Meg finds this notion troublesome because she likes to think she knows everything -Meg and Calvin go for a walk and Calvin asks Meg about her father -Calvin tells Meg the rumours of her father's whereabouts and Meg becomes defensive -Calvin holds Meg's hand and tells her that her eyes are beautiful and Meg starts blushing in the moonlight -Charles appears and announces that is time to find their father and Mrs. Who -Mrs. Whatsit scrambles over a fence, wearing Mrs. Buncombe's sheets. Then, in a faint gust of wind, their friend Mrs. Which announces in a quivering voice that she, too, is here, but will not materialize completely, as the process is too tiring and the little band has much to do. Challenges of Meg: to learn to accept not knowing everything, see things more clearly, as they truly are, beneath their often-deceptive surfaces. For example, when she first meets Calvin, she immediately wants to form a definitive opinion of him, but her mother urges her to be patient and insists that in time she will come to know him better. Meg must learn that reality is not always as it seems, a lesson that applies to her father's disappearance, her brother's extraordinary gifts, and her own self- conception. Calvin's lessons: learns that things aren't always as they seem to be For Example, Meg helps Calvin with his homework even being in a lower grade than him and being considered a moron at school Calvin's challenges: Although his mother doesn't care about him as much he loves her dearly

-Meg feels herself taken away from Charles and Calvin she starts to cry for them -Suddenly she feels a heart beating and finds Calvin and Charles -Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which inform the children that they are on the planet Uriel. When Calvin inquires into their mode of travel, Mrs. Whatsit explains that they do not travel at any one speed, but rather "tesser" or "wrinkle" through space. Meg wonders if this term relates to the "tesseract" that Mrs. Whatsit mentioned earlier. -mrs. Whatsit tells the children that their father'slife is threatened and they are going to go find him -but first they have stopped to learn what they are up against. With Mrs. Who's permission, Mrs. Whatsit transforms herself into a beautiful creature with a horse's body and a human torso. -The children climb on Mrs. Whatsit's back and fly to the fields -Meg is overcome with joy and reaches out for Calvin's hand -Mrs. Whatsit gives them flowers and tells them to breathe when the air is too thin -As they travel to Uriel she shows them a view of the universe that is not viewable from earth -The children see a white disk (one of Uriel's moons) -The figure out what the dark thing is what her father is fighting Meg's Lessons: Although she doesn't realize it but when she is seeing good fight over evil reaching out for Calvin'[s hand was a way to show that love can overcome anything

-Mrs. Which informs Meg that her father is trapped behind the darkness -Seeing that Meg remains confused, Charles Wallace explains that tessering is travel in the fifth dimension: the first dimension is a line; the second is a square; the third is a cube; the fourth is Einstein's concept of time; and the fifth is a tesseract. By adding the tesseract to the other four dimensions, they travel in such a way that the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line -A gust of wind blows and the children cannot breathe in a 2 dimensional world-mrs.who apologizes for this -Mrs. Whatsit explains that they are traveling to a foggy gray planet in the belt of the constellation Orion. -Mrs. Whatsit tells her that they have taken a time wrinkle as well as a space wrinkle; they will arrive back home five minutes before they ever left. -They enter a foggy planet and meet the Happy Medium -Mrs. Whatsit asks the medium to show the children their home planet but she is reluctant to show something unpleasant -They see their planet in which it is surrounded by the Dark Thing that they first saw from the atmosphere above Uriel. -She explains that they are not alone -Are warrior of the dark thing: Jesus, da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Bach, and Gandhi. Impatient, Meg asks about her father; Mrs. Which informs her that he is held captive on a planet that has capitulated to the Dark Thing. Challenges for Meg; the need to know everything (tesser), she is committed to conquer the world through rational thinking and has not yet accepted the idea of explanations that exceed our logical understanding, She must learn to be patient despite her desire to rescue her father immediately, She must learn moderation and compromise

-The happy medium shows a battle between the dark thing and the stars -Charles correctly guessses that Mrs. Whatsit was once a star but sacrificed for the dark thing -The happy medium wants to eave the children with a pleasant vision so she shows an image of Calvin's mom spanking a younger child with a wooden spoon -After she shows Ms. Murry who is writing a letter to Mr. Murry bringing tears to her eyes -They teaser to Camazotz Mrs. W's cannot come with them instead they give each child a gift (that they already posses) -she reinforces in Meg her own faults, strengthens Calvin's innate ability to communicate with people of all different types, and bolsters in Charles Wallace the natural resilience of his childhood. -Mrs. Who gives Meg funny glasses , Calvin an excerpt from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and Charles a quotation from Goethe. -She tells them to al stay together -In Camazotz, every house is the exact same size, shape, and color. In front of each house, children bounce balls and skip rope in a synchronized rhythm that seems to govern the whole town -If you disobey this there will be aberration -A paper delivery boy questions them and gives them information -Charles is worries that he will not be able to recognize his father when they are going to Central Central Intelligence (Meg does not think this is a problem) Challenges for Meg: She must understand that reality is not what it seems to be (Mrs. Whatsit once being a star and sacrificing for the dark thing and she realizes Mrs. Whatsit that she knows is only the tiniest thing she could be), learning that people are more complex and and capable than they initially appear -Camazotz is a parody of Meg's desire to be like everyone else

-Charles wants to go in by himself and report back to Meg and Calvin bu they insist on staying together following Mrs. Which's words -They open the door, revealing a great entrance hall of dull, greenish marble and icy cold walls. Filling the hall are a number of similar-looking men wearing nondescript business suits. -the children ask the suited man what Central Central Intelligence is and he warns them that he will have to report them -The marble wall in front of the children dissolve and they find themselves in a different room -They approach a man sitting on a chair with red eyes -The children immediately sense that the cold blackness emanating from this man is the same as that exuded by the Dark Thing, and Charles Wallace instructs Meg and Calvin to close their eyes lest the man hypnotize them. -The man speaks to the children's brains asking why they want to see their father -Charles kicks the man -He tells him that he is the only one with the biggest neuropsychological system complex to understand him and he must look into his eyes to decipher him -The man with the red eyes serves the children a turkey dinner -Charles thinks the food taste like sand and the man says its because he isn't in IT yet -The man hypnotizes Charles and Charles asks Meg why she is being so belligerent and uncooperative -Meg tells Calvin that this is NOT Charles -Togetherness is a symbol for holding hands and the chapter shows that reality is not always what it seems to be

-Charles Wallace now in IT is eating a turkey dinner -He tells Mega and Calvin that the man with red eyes an mrs. W's are now enemies -They realize this is not the real Charles and they grab his arm to try and get the "real Charles" -The man tells them that Charles will lead to Mr. Murry -Meg reminds Calvin of his gift to communicate and he tries and the boy drifts away telling them that they should turn themselves entirely into IT -identifies as the "Boss" and the "Happiest Sadist." He extols the virtues of IT and declares that on Camazotz, the total conformity prevents all war or unhappiness. Meg notes that sometimes a little bit of unhappiness is a necessary precondition for happiness. -Charles waves his hand and the walls of the corridor grows transparent to reveal a small room radiating a dull, sulphurous light. In response to Meg's questioning, Charles says that he simply moved around the wall's atoms to make it open -He shows Calvin and Meg another room where they saw the boy wincing in pain each time the ball hits the ground (Charles explains that this is a punishment) -Then he shows Meg and Calvin another small cell, in which stands a transparent cylinder or column; Mr. Murry sits trapped inside. -Pulling Charles's arm was an extreme gesture of holding hands

-Meg rushes to her father but she can't feel the surface and her father cannot see or hear her -Calvin nearly releases the real Charles by reciting the lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which Mrs. Who gave him, but Charles ultimately remains in thrall. -Meg remembers Mrs. Who's glasses -Mr. Murry is overjoyed with her daughter's arrival though he cannot see her until he puts on Mrs. Who's glasses -Charles anxiously sees his father and he tells them that they have to go to IT-they have no choice and go to IT -Meg informs him that this is not the real Charles -Charles leads them out of Central, Central Intelligence g and into a strange, domelike edifice pulsing with a violet glow -Meg feels a pulse that controls her heartbeat -Meg tries to shout out the Declaration of Independence, the periodic table, and the irrational square roots, but her mind nonetheless begins to slip into IT's control. -Seeing that everybody is lost Calvin commands everyone to teaser -Mr. Murry grabs her wrist and she feels herself torn apart in the whirlwind of testing

-Meg regains conscious and she feels icy coldness and finds herself unable to move or speak -She has the voice of Calvin and her father discussing her condition but she is unable to communicate with her -Meg hears her father saying that he wasn't intentionally trying to go to Camazotz but trying to go tesser to Mars -He was going to surrender to IT -Meg desperately tried to make a sound -She finally succeeded in making a small croaking noise -She demands to know where Charles is and she is furious that they left Camazotz without him -She yells at her father for her inability to solve their difficulties and deliver them to safety -Mr. Murry massages Meg's fingers and she cries out in pain and he says this is a good thing because she can feel a sensation -Suddenly they look in front of them and they see three strange upright creatures advance toward them, each with four arms; they have tentacles in place of hair, and soft indentations where their eyes would be were they human. -Calvin introduces himself politely and explains Meg's conditions -At first Meg is terrified, but when one of the creatures reaches out to touch her with its wavy tentacle, warmth spreads through her body. The creature picks her up and tells Mr. Murry that it is taking Meg with it. -When Meg is unable to feel her fingers and Mr. Murry massages them and it hurts he says this is good, this reflects the inhabitants of Camazotz because they are never unhappy because they have the inability to feel emotions -When Meg blames her father she will soon start to realize that parents don't know everything and they are not super-humans, only when she abandons this naive view of her father she will mature and be able to value her own abilities and potential , She realizes that he is a fallible human like herself

-The creatures tell them to entrust them because they will take care of Meg because she is weak -Meg leans against the furry chest of one of the beasts and feels warm and secure -The beasts rub something warm on her body and serve her something delicious -Meg begins to think of an appropriate name for her and chooses Aunt Beast and she tries to explain light and vision to her and she falls into a deep sleep -Aunt Beast tells her that it is hard to communicate in her language -Nonetheless, she tries to explain that the beasts live on a planet called Ixchel, another of the planets struggling against the Dark Thing. She then sings to Meg a beautiful song that sets Meg at peace with herself and the world. -After clothing and comforting Meg once more, Aunt Beast takes her back to her father and Calvin, who are eating a delicious but colorless meal prepared by the beasts. -Meg asks impatiently whether they have tried to summon the three Mrs. W's. Meg tries to describe these women to Aunt Beast, but realizes that all physical description is useless when speaking with a creature that cannot see. She concentrates very intently on the essence of these three extraordinary women, then suddenly hears Mrs. Which's thundering voice announcing their arrival. -The beasts demonstrate the ability to read Meg's mind -Demonstrates that seeing is the only way to know and understand the world -A planet where perceiving does not mean seeing and communicating does not mean speaking words

-Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which materialize on Ixchel in response to Meg's summons. However, they insist that they can do nothing to help save Charles Wallace. -She realizes that she is the one to bring Charles back from Camazotz -Meg says goodbye to her father, Calvin, and Aunt Beast, and also apologizes to her father for her accusatory outbursts. -Mrs. Which tells Meg that she will teaser with her so she reaches Camazotz safely -Each of the Mrs. W's presents Meg with a gift: Mrs. Whatsit enhances the force of her innate love; Mrs. Who gives her a blessing from the New Testament; and Mrs. Which strengthens in her the one thing that she has that IT has not. However, Meg must discover this thing for herself. -After Meg teasers she goes to IT and finds Charles crouched behind the dais containing the disembodied brain -Meg tries to identify Mrs. Which's gift and Charles tells her that she has nothing that IT doesn't have -Charles tells Meg that Mrs. Whatsit hates her, and at that moment, Meg realizes the one thing that she has that IT does not have: love. -She calls out to Charles with the force of love -Suddenly, he runs into her arms and the children tesser together through the darkness. When they emerge from the darkness, they find they have rejoined Calvin and Mr. Murry in the twins' vegetable garden back on Earth! -After a joyous family reunion, the three Mrs. W's appear. Mrs. Whatsit apologizes for not saying goodbye; the Mrs. W's are busy with a new mission. She starts to describe the mission, but at that moment there is a gust of wind and before Mrs. Whatsit can complete her sentence, the three extraordinary ladies are gone. -Meg is finally confident in who she is and she learns that she does not need to conform in order to make positive contributions to the world -Meg discovers that the power of selfless love can set her free -Now Meg is able to accept herself with her own abilities and make contributions to the world.

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