Reading Comprehension Template

1. Author

1.1. Madeleine Lengle

1.2. November 29 1989 to september

1.3. Nationality

1.4. Madeleine L'engle was an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time

2. General Info

2.1. 1962

2.2. Romantic fantisy

2.3. English

2.4. Space

3. Plot

3.1. Can't fit in

3.2. Has to find her father

3.3. Charles gets controlled

3.4. Meg over comes IT with the power of love

3.5. They tesser back to earth

3.6. A big Family reunion

4. Themes, Allusions & Symbols

4.1. If you wish it you can do it

4.2. The black thing it the corruption of the world in today.

4.3. The passage that mrs. Whatsit was singing while going on the platuea of Urie

5. Characters

5.1. Meg

5.2. Sidekick

5.3. The man with the red eyes

6. Vocabulary

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6.1.2. Word 2

6.2. Section 2

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6.3. Section 3

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6.4. Section 4

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7. Summary

7.1. It starts of with a girl that does not believe that she is worth a breath and does not think she is normal because she is jealous of her brothers on how they get a normal life and are popular and get all of the attention. Thankfully her little brother knows her well and feels the same pain. When all of a sudden in the middle of the night Meg went down stairs to get some thing to drink to find her little brother and after awhile the mother comes down to. Then they Ms. Whatsit a old lady came in and was identified as the tramp that took some sheets from there neighbors. She Mentions a "tesseract" Which makes Megs mom pale. The next day while Megs mom was doing something Meg and George Wallace leave to see Ms. Whatsit and tell them more about the "tesseract". One the way they meet Calvin O'Keeffe. Meg helps Calvin on his home work and is surprised on how good she does. Calvin and Meg go one a walk and talk about Megs dads were abouts. Then all of a sudden Calvin makes a move and says that Megs eyes are preatty

7.2. Things get tripy and meg is in a dark trance and is confused on what to do because Charles Calvin and Ms. Whatsit are gone and panics. After awhile every thing comes back into place and finds that she is in a magnificent wonder land of blossoms and a wonder land called Uriel. Then they explain what happen and where they and how their fathers life is at risk. Then Ms. Whatsit transformed into a Greek Centaur as soon as that happen George fell to he knees and worshiped her but Ms. Whatsit demands for him to stop it. They climb on Mrs. Whatsit back and rode off onto the plateau and goes into thin and Mrs. Whatsit told them to breath into the flower keep from the thin air. On the way up Meg sees what her father is battling. Ms Which confirms that their father is battle the darkness And explains that they are traveling by tessering only to Megs confusion. A gust of wind blows the children up into the darkness and they turn 2D (by mistake) and they explain that they are going to a foggy planet, but Meg is worried that her mother will be worried but they say that you should not be worried because they are in a time wrinkle as well as a space wrinkle so they will be at earth in five minutes earth time. When they arrive at the foggy planet They introduce Meg, George and Calvin to a Medium and informs them that their father is being help captive in the pure evil planet. They tesser over to the planet that contains their father and realize that everything there is the same and that every person is being constant. They see a rout boy with newspapers and tells that that the whole thing is run by the central central intelligence.

7.3. The 3 kids walk up to the big build that is bigger than the empire state building and going inside. George Wallace says that he will go in side and report back what he sees. Meg rejects this idea. They ask and man how things work in the Central and eventually the man is confused on how little they know about how things work in the Central. Then the man says he will have to report them and they eventually end up in a room with a man with red eyes. He tries to reach them through the brain and tries to hypnotize them. To repel this I thought was halirous they started sing nursery ryams to break the spell. They are being tested. George came up to him and punched him as hard as he could to see if he was human or not because he had a felling that he is not him. The man told For George to look into to his eyes only to realized that he was to strong for George. The man says if they want their father back they will have to cooperate. They go to dinner and the man temps George again on turning himself over to them for the taste and smell of a delicious dinner. While George is still confused on what he is. Refusing on what his sister is says George again challenges the man the pupils contract and George is lost. As they continue there dinner the man says that George should show them to Mr. Murry. While they are going George takes them on a tour around and shows them the little boy that they saw earlier and that every time that the ball hit the ground it hurts him as their going they see a man that Megs says is her father. As soon as she sees him she throws herself at the column but hits the transparent glass. Then George crossed the line cracking up. Meg tackles him but Georges fist reaches her stoumici first. To calm George down Calvin sings the poem tempest. Then that sparks an idea of using Megs glass. As she uses them she passes right through the barrier to her father. She brings him out of the collum and then George tells them that they must got to to to the IT. When their there they say that they should tesser when its just about to happen her father grabs a hold of her wrist then feels griped apart because of tessering.

7.4. As Meg regains consciousness, she feels icy coldness all around her and finds herself unable to move her body or speak. She hears the voices of Calvin and her father discussing her condition, but she has no way of communicating with them. Meg hears Calvin ask her father about his journey to Camazotz. Mr. Murry explains that he never intended to go to this planet; he was part of a team of scientists trying to tesser to Mars. Mr. Murray says that he knows he could not have been on Camazotz for longer than two years, but time seems to flow differently on this planet. He tells Calvin that he was about to give up all hope and surrender to IT when the children arrived to rescue him. Then Meg get better over time then these creatures come and say that their taking Meg with them. They explain why they are taking meg with them because she is weak and vulnerable. They take care of her and make her go to sleep. Meg comes up with a name for the creature Aunt Beast. When waking up energized and wonder full she comes in the other room to see Mr. Murray and Calvin eating . Then they say that they must go back and rescue Charles safely. Each of the Mrs. W's give her a gift and one that Meg must find on her own. When she gets there she finds out what it is the IT does not have love. So she loves Charles which breaks the spell of IT and they go back home and have a nice family reunion and live happily.