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LOST in A Wrinkle in Time

LOST in A Wrinkle in Time. Behind the Story. Many of Madeleine L’Engle’s beliefs and thus her works, including A Wrinkle in Time, were strongly influenced by George MacDonald. Was rejected over twenty times for being too “risky” of a novel before being published in 1962.

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LOST in A Wrinkle in Time

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  1. LOST in A Wrinkle in Time

  2. Behind the Story • Many of Madeleine L’Engle’s beliefs and thus her works, including A Wrinkle in Time, were strongly influenced by George MacDonald. • Was rejected over twenty times for being too “risky” of a novel before being published in 1962. • Is now L’Engle’s most famous novel. • While easy to read as a stand-alone novel, A Wrinkle in Time is the first of five books in what is known as Madeleine L’Engle’s “Time Quintet.” • A Wrinkle in Time • A Wind in the Door • A Swiftly Tilting Planet • Many Waters • An Acceptable Time • Received a lot of heavy criticism: • Too Christian • Sacrilegious • Won the Newbery Award.

  3. A Quick Peek Into the Story • Follows the adventures of Meg Murray, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe. • With the help of three mysterious entities (Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit), the three children use a tesseract to “wrinkle” through space and time to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace’s father, Mr. Murray. • During their travels, the three Mrs. W’s take the children to different places so that they may see the battle of good and evil that is being waged in the universe. • Eventually, the three children travel to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive by the evil entity known as “IT.” • In the process of rescuing Mr. Murray however, Charles Wallace is captured and brainwashed. Unfortunately, Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Murray are forced to temporarily leave him behind. • Due to her direct encounter with “The Black Thing,” Meg is “frozen” and must take refuge on planet Ixchiel where she is healed. • Meg returns to Camazotz alone to confront IT and save Charles Wallace. • After rescuing Charles Wallace, Meg and company return home.

  4. Comparing Characters

  5. Time and Space • LOST • The Island can move through time. • The Island can move through space. • The Island’s invisibility. (A pocket?) • A Wrinkle in Time • The characters can move through space without changing time. • A Swiftly Tilting Planet (4th in the Time Quintet) • Charles Wallace can move through time without changing space.

  6. “…if a very small insect were to move from the section of skirt in Mrs. Who’s right hand to that in her left, it would be quite a long walk for him if he had to walk straight across…” (L’Engle 72). “…the fifth dimension’s a tesseract […] you can travel through space without having to go the long way around […] a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points” (L’Engle 75).

  7. Faith

  8. Camazotz/Dharmaville “The houses […] were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray […] a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door…” (L’Engle 98).

  9. The Cold War in 1954 • Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that “massive retaliation” was the goal. • Manila Conference and the SEATO Pact • Overthrew suspected communist governments such as Guatemala’s • French union forces battled against Vietnamese forces in the climatic battle of the First Indochina War • Pakistan and the U.S. signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement

  10. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues • Jack • Kate • Sawyer • Locke • Hurley • Claire • Ben • Alex • Aaron • Penny • Walt • Jin • Sun • Meg • Charles Wallace • Calvin “[Meg] had found her father and he had not made everything all right […] If the long search for her father was ended, and he wasn’t able to overcome all their difficulties, there was nothing to guarantee that it would all come out right in the end. There was nothing left to hope for” (L’Engle 165).

  11. Island Research Bases In The Arm of the Starfish, Calvin is working on an island where they are researching organ regeneration by studying starfish.

  12. Everybody is Connected

  13. Other Similarities • Brainwashing • Kidnapping children • Reliance on psychics • Strong female characters • Characters searching for something

  14. Works Cited Kelly, Liz and Jen Chaney. Lost Book Club: A Wrinkle in Time. The Washington Post. 19 December 2007. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/11/28/DI2007112800669_pf.html>. L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Crosswicks, Ltd., 1962.

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