In Mr.Dejong’s language arts class, we were reading Wrinkle in time. In this essay, I will tell you why Madeleine L'Engle wrote this book and also what Wrinkle in Time taught me about science. Madeleine L’Engle wrote this book with her father lost for a greater amount of time in the book by the cause of her own father died when she was 17 from serving in the military and being exposed to mustard gas so he had health problems his whole life from him being exposed to mustard gas. That’s why she had Meg lose her father for most of the book. I assume she wrote wrinkle in time because she hated science, but then she decided to pick up a book about Albert Einstein and once she read the book she started looking progressively more into science.
After this she went to Fisk University to major in medicine not math, but later her opinion changed because of a student she met at the university whom later became her husband, James Jeffries Mayes, a woman named Evelyn Boyd Granville who was, “one of the first African-American women to receive the Ph.D. in mathematics”, and Lee Lorch who was a chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Fisk University, and she applauded his teaching. (Robertson) To put it differently, Vivienne didn’t go to Fisk University with the idea of becoming the fifth African American to get her PhD she went in looking for medical opportunities, but influence changed her opinion putting mathematics as her full focus, which was a good move for her since she made history. As a matter of fact, “she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis A Structure Problem in Asymptotic Analysis by the University of Texas at Austin” because of her conclusion that if you, “Let F(x) and G(x) be two functions defined for 0 ≤ x (-- removed HTML --) 0 there is a T > 0 such that | F(x) - G(x) | (-- removed HTML --) T.” (Robertson)
This is was a major event in her life that influenced her to write
Madeleine L 'Engle a French author created a blend of science and fairy tale magic for developing the story line in her book A Wrinkle in Time. The book is one big journey with three main characters. From the beginning Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin go on multiple adventures filled with fun, crazy, exciting moments. This book is completed with many obstacles in the way of the trio. A sure perspective that is extremely predominant in this book is love.
Anne was a member of the Puritan community which frowned on literature of any type other than the Bible. This was another reason that, although she was a prolific writer, she never published any of her work. Despite her education and her many success, Anne had to overcome several hardships during her life. The ocean voyage and the move to the new world was one of these. She suffered from poor health for much of her life.
Starting with the Great Depression: The Great Depression was a major stock market crash that began in 1929 and went on for several years. People were left with no money and they were forced to sell everything they had, which meant they didn’t have a place to stay and sometimes families would have to separate due to the Great Depression. Afterwards became World War II. WWII may have had an impact on her life and art because it was a hard time for everybody, even for years after. It was a hard time in America, but it created a major change within our country.
She wrote a book called “Mules and Men” which told what it was like to be an African American women living in the south and what it was like in the southern black culture in general. She also wrote a book called “Their Eyes Were Watching God” which is probably one of her most famous books. It shows just what an African American women had to go through living in Florida. It shows not only what she had to go through from white people but, also from the men in her life (Digital Scholarship
There was a lot of stress put on her, especially at her young age. But it only motivated her to keep pushing and to write more and this was around the time of World War II. Going through grief was a rollercoaster of emotions for her. She had to live the rest of her life without her father.
To this day, people are reading and studying her novels. However, there was a long period of time in which people had stopped reading/listening to her material because she had been accused of a crime. She had been charged with molesting a boy in the 1940’s, yet there was no definitive proof. This accusation caused “...no publisher [to be] willing to publish her work.
By writing it down and sharing it with a large audience, she was able to transmit her stories and the events that happened in those years, as well as her own personal status to create herself an identity and to define her state of
Her father was a lawyer and exposed her to an education. From this opportunity she was able to learn how to read and write, a privilege not all women had. At a young age she also gained the knowledge of gender discrimination, which was a big thing in this century. She despised the fact that people were being treated differently because of race or gender. Then
She first wrote about Abraham Lincoln, and Napoleon Bonaparte(Biography.com). After that she began to write about the corruption of the Standard Oil Company, from then John D. Rockefeller lived in fear. On top of her writing articles she went and got all the information, she invented investigative journalism. This means she investigated her topics rather than read books about it. Her most famous article was called History of Standard Oil Company this was later turned into a book.
In order to advance her research, she admitted to withdrawing from society in order to spend every possible moment studying insects (Doc 5). This is another example of how some of the women in science fields, worked as hard as they could. Because they knew if they did not, then they may not be able to continue their research in their respective fields. She even learned how to draw so that she might better record her findings. While men have always been able to study science, it was new to women.
However, when she notice students and teachers in her university notice her writing, she became a freelance reporter. After and during this time, she began to write many books of history. One of the books Fever 1793, was inspired when she read a newspaper
The letters she would often write to her husband became very popular, it showed how he supported her ideas and gave him some advice on what he can do with handling his political
Another point mentioned would be her loss of her first child. Around the time she lost her child you could imagine she was writing Frankenstein's monster trying to fit in but being shunned; turning to murder while she grieved her dead