Calvin O'Keefe

novel focuses on Meg Murry, an awkward and impatient high school student, who sets off on an adventure to rescue her missing father from a giant disembodied brain named IT. She is accompanied by her extraordinary younger brother Charles Wallace, Calvin O’Keefe, a popular and athletic boy that goes to her school, and three celestial beings named Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. Three important elements of the story are the characterization, setting, and theme. First, one of Calvin’s characteristics

Charles Wallace and Calvin O’Keefe. Meg and Charles are brother and sister.Calvin is Meg’s friend from school. They bring Calvin with them during the journey. Meg does not really like her brother. For example, the text states “Everybody was asleep. Everybody except Meg. Evan Charles Wallace the dumb baby brother…” Antagonist: The antagonist in the story is the Black Thing. It is a mysterious evil shadow that comes out of nowhere. The Black Thing stops Meg, Charles and Calvin from rescuing their father

still has flaws but more importantly courage. Above all, the novel “A Wrinkle in Time” correlates to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey and to the Christian framework. Meg is the hero in the novel and she goes through a journey with Charles Wallace, Calvin, Mrs.

Wrinkle in Time that became published in 1962. Following that, L’Engle wrote the sequels which included A Wind in Door, A Swift Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. In the novel, Margaret “Meg” Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe are given a task which leads them to save Meg’s father, Mr. Murry. Throughout their journey, they face many sources of evil. The evils that they face in the novel are The Black Thing, The Man with Red Eyes, and IT. Even though there are evil forces

When introduced to the concept of individualism, it is obvious by the name collectivism would be the polar opposite of such a philosophy. Collectivism is essentially the concept people should be viewed as a collective rather than individuals, hence the name. Collectivism is the root of what most citizens deem to be a corrupt government. The idea can be summed up in Black Sabbath’s song War Pigs, in which lead singer John “Ozzy” Osbourne exclaims in reference to the government, “ treating people just

On a dark and stormy night, Meg Murry tosses and turns in her attic bedroom. She is unable to fall asleep because she is preoccupied with all that seems wrong in her life: she doesn't fit in at school; her high school teachers have just threatened to drop her down a grade on account of her poor academic performance; and worst of all, her father has been missing for many years and no one has heard from him. Meg hears her family's big black dog Fortinbras barking downstairs, and she begins to worry

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, is about Meg Murry’s journey with her brother Charles, and friend Calvin to find Meg’s father. The story begins on a stormy evening when Meg and Charles, who are in bed, are awakened by the sound of thunder. Soon after, there is a knock on the door, and Mrs. Whatsit comes into Meg’s house. Mrs. Whatsit was a lady with magical powers. Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg, Charles, and their mother about something called tesserect, which is a tool used to travel through time

in effort to combat a greater evil with love. Now meet Meg Murry, a socially awkward but kind hearted high school student who is shuttled to space along with her little brother Charles who is an intelligent genius, and her romantic love interest, Calvin O’ Keefe, in attempt to rescue her father, Mr.Murry, from “The Dark Thing” who was taken hostage to the planet “Camazotz”. Now the story is centralized around three main events; the meeting of three celestial beings, Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs

are controlled on the planet of Comazotz. She notices the normality of everyone, "...there was also a sameness to them. Like the sameness of people riding in a subway," (L'Engle 110) and is upset with their exactness. She later is even talking to Calvin about how he masks how he really feels in school, in

By: Madeleine L'Engle Book Report By: Madeleine L'Engle a French author uses a creative mixture of science and fairy tale magic for building the story line in her book A Wrinkle in Time. From beginning to end Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin go through adventure after adventure bursting with animated fairy-tale characteristics. This book has a model preteen coming-of-age theme. The three are intertwined naturally, and work well within the science-fiction twist of this very unbelievable fantasy