Analysis Of Madeleine L Engle's A Wrinkle In Time

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One may argue that a straight line is the fastest way to go from one point to another, but only after reading the book, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, readers can truly understand the fifth dimension of our universe, Tesseract. A dimension where you can fold time and space to get to a location faster. When reading the book, you can explore the way to use the Tesseract with our protagonist Meg Murry. Although it did bring her scars and painful memories as it caused her to lose her father. Without a doubt, the Tesseract is a sign of hope, courage, and a lesson in Meg's life. First, it kept Meg going when she is experiencing trouble as she knows that if she can master the Tesseract, she still has a chance to find her long lost father. …show more content…

By accident, he activated the power of the Tesseract during an experiment, causing him to "teleport" to another planet instantly, but since he did not fully master the power, he was stuck there and couldn't get back to Earth. Due to this, Meg was made fun of in school, and became very unconfident. However, one night, a wise lady who claimed to be Charles Wallace's (her brother's) friend told her that: "There is such a thing as a Tesseract" (L'Engle 18). Which gave her hope because Tesseract was the uncontrolable power her father used before he vanished and using the powers of it after mastered could lead her into finding he beloved father. Later, the three Mrs.Ws (Charles Wallace's friends) also showed her how tessering is performed by taking them to another planet in less than a minute, and then bring them back without having anyone else know that they just left. When Meg asks them about how it was done, they also showed her how tessering works by demonstrating how an ant could travel from one side of the rope quicker when the line is folded than when walking in a straight line. "'You see,' Mrs. Whatsit said, '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

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