A Wrinkle in Time

1. A Wrinkle in Time A timeline by Abed Mir

2. Fighter- Nicolas Copernicus I think Madeleine L’Engle would choose him because he was an astronomer, so he must have studied the Black Thing and knowledge about it. -He is said to be the “Founder of astronomy” - He was born in Poland - He was the scientist that published De Revolutionibus, which stated that the earth spins on its axis and revolves around the sun, not the sun around the earth.

3. Chapter - Mrs.Whatsit • Setting - The Murry House • Meg is up at the attic, scared that the roof will be ripped off and she will be blown away by the storm. • She heads downstairs to the kitchen and meets Charles Wallace, her little five –year old brother; he asks her if she wants a sandwich. • Mrs.Murry comes into the kitchen and asks for a sandwich too. • Fortinbras, their dog, growls at Mrs.Murry’s lab door. • Mrs.Murry opens the door and a human being walks in. • Nobody new the age or gender (because it was bundled in clothes) except Charles, who addresses it as Mrs.Whatsit . • Mrs.Whatsit stays for a sandwich. • After the sandwich, Mrs.Whatsit tells Mrs.Murry that tesseracts do exist, then leaves the house.

4. Chapter - Mrs.Who • Setting- The Murry House, [Meg’s] school, the “haunted house” • Meg brushes, puts on school clothes, and gets ready for school • At breakfast, Meg’s mom tells her that Meg’s “dream” was real. • At school, Meg gets in trouble, so she gets sent to the principal’s office. • The principal believes that Meg isn’t facing facts, and then he starts an argument between him and Meg about her father. • When Meg came home, Charles Wallace was waiting for her. • He asks for them to go to the haunted house to see Mrs.Whatsit • They go with Fortinbras, and find him barking at a boy’s feet when they reach the house. • The boy introduces himself as Calvin, the basketball player. • Charles Wallace invites him to dinner, and Calvin agrees. • The front door of the haunted house was nailed shut, so Charles Wallace led them to the back door. • He opens it and they enter into the kitchen, where a plump little lady was knitting something out of a bed sheet. • Charles Wallace introduces her as Mrs.Who, then asks if she knew about Calvin. • She says she doesn’t, but he’s average, then shoos them out. • Then the trio head toward the Murry house for dinner.

5. Chapter  - Mrs.Which • Setting- Murry property • When they reach the house, evening had started to fall. • Mrs.Murry is cooking dinner. • Calvin calls his mom, and then tells how lucky Meg is to be loved, have a place like her house. • Meg shows Calvin photos of Mr.Murry. • Then Meg helps Calvin with his homework. • Then they have dinner; then Charles Wallace insists that Calvin read a book to him and Meg asks Mrs.Murry about father and if Calvin has anything to do with this. • When Charles is settled, Calvin and Meg go for a walk. • Meg tells Calvin everything she knows about Mr.Murry. • Suddenly, Charles Wallace steps out of the bushes and tells them that it’s time to find Mr.Murry. • Then Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs.Who, and something shimmering appears behind.

6. Chapter  - The Black Thing • Setting- Uriel • The trio go through what’s described as nothingness. • Meg cannot feel anything, but shortly her body comes back to life. • Charles Wallace and Calvin eventually find. • Then Mrs.Which apologizes and Mrs.Whatsit and Mrs.Who start laughing. • Meg looks around at the beautiful planet called Uriel. • Then Mrs.Whatsit transforms into the most beautiful creature that Meg has ever seen. • Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace climb on her back. • They fly over a garden full of the creatures like Mrs.Whatsit. • Then the ascend into Uriel’s atmosphere. • They land on Uriel’s moon, then turn around and look very far. • They see a shadow. • Then Meg realizes that her father was fighting that shadow.

7. Chapter  - The Tesseract • Setting- Uriel, Orion’s Belt • The group tessers behind the shadow. • They appear at a gray planet. • They walk to a cavern. • They meet the Happy Medium. • Then she shows them the shadow that covers earth. • Then Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace list fighters that are fighting the shadow.

8. Chapter - The Happy Medium • Setting- Orion’s Belt, Camazotz • The Happy Medium shows Meg, Charles, and Calvin a star that sacrificed itself to stop a part of the Black Thing. • Medium shows Meg’s and Calvin’s moms • They bade farewell and they tesser to Camazotz, where the Mrs.W’s give them each a gift, then leave. • Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin head to town, where everything is the same; the kids are having the same rhythm when jump roping or playing ball. • Then a kid bounces the ball at the wrong rhythm, his mom ushers him into the house and left the ball on the street. • Charles Wallace picks up the ball and knocks on the kid’s house. • The mother denies that the ball is theirs, and there hasn’t been an Aberration in years. But when Charles Wallace holds the ball forward, the kid dashes out and grabs the ball from his hands. • After that incident, a newspaper boy on some bicycle/motorbike hybrid comes around throwing newspapers at houses, at the exact angle, and the newspapers land at the exact same spot each time.

9. Chapter  (continued) • They go to him and ask where I the main information center, and he answers with CENTRAL Central Intelligence Center. Then he tells them the directions, and heads to his newspaper route. • They go that way and find the huge building. • When they are entering, Calvin feels that they are entering grave danger.

10. Chapter  - The Man With the Red Eyes • Setting- CENTRAL Central Intelligence • They head in and find a man who reports them to a room full of machines. • They head to the end and Charles screams that something is getting to him. • Then the see a man that Meg thought contained all the darkness of the Black Thing. The man tries to hypnotize them by reciting the multiplication tables, but he failed. • Charles then hits the man, and realizes this wasn’t really him, something was talking throughhim. So he lets the man hypnotize him (to find what he really is), but Meg can’t take it, so she tackles him and returns him to normal. • Then the man serves them dinner, and they sit down. To Charles Wallace everything tastes like sand, but it tastes real to Meg and Calvin, which means that the Man with the Red Eyes can get to them, but not Charles Wallace. • Charles goes into the man again, but he makes sure Meg doesn’t stop him.

11. Chapter  - The Transparent Column • Setting- CENTRAL Central Intelligence • Calvin and Meg try to get Charles Wallace back, but the black-smocked men stop them. • The Man with the Red Eyes tells Charles to take them. Charles starts off, and Meg and Calvin follow him. They appear at a room. • Calvin tries get Charles Wallace back verbally, but fails. • They go up an elevator, and they step into a room, where there were cells. In one cell, there was the boy that caused the “Aberration”. Every time he bounced his ball, he got hurt. • Then Charles makes a wall disappear (by rearranging the atoms) and there is another cell. In there was a column. And in the column was… • FATHER!!!!!!!!

12. Chapter  - IT • Setting-CENTRAL Central Intelligence, “IT’s house” • Meg tries to get into the column, but she bounces back like a beach ball. • She tries to tackle Charles Wallace (like Calvin did when they were at the Man with the Red Eyes), but he punches her in the stomach. • Calvin tries to get him out again, but he almost did it. • Then Meg remembers Mrs.Who's glasses (one of the things that the Mrs.W’s gave them in Chapter ) and takes them out of her pocket and puts them on. • Charles Wallace (Reminder: the HYPNOTIZED Charles Wallace) chases her for the glasses. Meg flung herself into the cell with the column, when Charles joins her, with Calvin trying to get in. • Finally, Meg joins her dad in the column. • Mr.Murry and Meg get out together. • Father meets Calvin outside and Charles Wallace, who tells them it’s time to go to IT. • They exit CENTRAL Central Intelligence and turn the corner to a domelike building. • They enter the building and step into a room. And there was a dais. And on that dais was a brain. Then Father tessers them because IT was too strong.

13. Chapter  - Absolute Zero • Setting- Ixchel • The chapter starts where Meg is cold, and Calvin and Mr.Murry are trying to find a heartbeat. • Mr.Murry explains how he got trapped on Camazotz. • Meg starts feeling. • Three beasts come to them. • The smallest beast takes Meg. Chapter - Aunt Beast • Setting- Ixchel • At first Mr.Murry didn’t agree, but eventually he collapsed. • Meg goes to sleep, and when she wakes up she is in the arms of the beast she called “Aunt Beast”. • Aunt Beast takes her to Father and Calvin. • Suddenly a loud voice came: • “WWWEEE AAARRREEE HHHEEERRREEE!!!”

14. Chapter  • Setting- Ixchel, Camazotz, Murry property. • Out comes Mrs.Whatsit & Co. • Meg gives in to go to Camazotz and rescue Charles after Mrs.Whatsit asked. • Mrs.Whatsit told them that life is like a sonnet; it has strict ends and beginnings, but in the middle the poet has freedom to write whatever he wants. • Then Mrs.Which tessers Meg to Camazotz. Meg goes to the Domelike building that IT rests. • Inside she sees the familiar dais that IT lays on, and Charles Wallace sat under it. Then IT made it’s mistake. When Charles said that Mrs.Whatsit hates her, Meg had the answer: LOVE. That is how she got Charles Wallace back. • As soon as she hugged him, they appeared at the Twin’s vegetable garden, with Calvin and Mr.Murry. • As the family embraced, the Mrs.W’s appeared, only said a few words, not even completing a sentence, then left.

15. Theme One important theme of A Wrinkle in Time is to ignore what other people think and carry your own uniqueness. One example is at the beginning, when Meg used to get in fights, gets sent to the principal’s office, and wishes she was like everybody else. Other themes are to never give-up, and never be afraid to face your fears. When Meg confronted IT, it was almost impossible to resist, but she never gave up and held out until her father tessered her to Ixchel. And in the last chapter, Meg faced her fears and battled against IT, this time succeeding in getting her brother back to her.

16. How Charles changes. At first, Charles is a boy who is smart, but seldom speaks in front of other people; therefore they consider him dumb. But he is nice to other family members. Ex: “It was true that Charles Wallace seldom spoke when people were around…” (Pg.10) As the story progresses Charles Wallace likes to go to places secretly. Ex:”’Okay, hold it you two’, came a voice out of the shadows. Charles Wallace stepped into the moonlight”(Charles Wallace is supposed to be sleeping)(Pg.53). At the middle-end (75%) Charles Wallace becomes a little arrogant, believing he could go into IT and get out again. In the last chapter, Meg rescues him from IT. Then at their house, where there is almost no trouble, he becomes his old self again .

17. Camazotz When Camazotz was introduced, it was said to be one of the planets that have given into IT and has become a dark planet. It Has. Every person there is the same to the next person. This is because IT is controlling them, to stop wars, and to keep harmony. EX:”’But please don’t distress yourself on our behalf. You know you don’t like looking at dark planets…’” (Pg.93). EX 2: ”’But that’s exactly what we have on Camazotz. Complete equality. Everybody exactly alike.‘“ (Pg.154) But Camazotz is also the most industrialized planets in the galaxy. It’s CENTRAL Central Intelligence Center is taller than the tallest building. EX 3: ‘“Our production level are the highest. Our factories never close; our machines never stop rolling.’” (Pg.103)

18. SOURCES • A WRINKLE IN TIME • http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm