A Wrinkle In Time By Madeleine L Engle

Laura Hillenbrand is an America author of magazine articles and books. Hillenbrand was born in May 5, 1967, in Fairfax, Virginia. She has written only two books Seabiscuit a New York Times bestseller, and Unbroken, both non-fictions. She is considering one of the best American writers. Her New York Times Article, “A Sudden Illness” won the 2004 National magazine award, and she has also won twice the Eclipse Award, one of the highest journalist honor. Her most recent book Unbroken tells the inspiring story of Louie Zamperini, the son of Italian immigrants.

Kate the Great by Meg Cabot, teaches you to know that only true friends will always be by your side no matter what.

“I’m different, and I like being different. ”(L’Engle pg.10) This quote is said by CalvinO’Keefe from A Wrinkle In Time. Calvin is a lot things. He is outgoing, humble, and extraordinary.

In Maya mythology, Camazotz was a bat god (Miller & Taube 1997). The word means "death bat" in the K'iche' language. The bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice (Miller & Taube 1997). Since "Camazotz" is not a commonly used word, I found it interesting when I researched this information about Maya mythology and its origin. In "A Wrinkle in Time" written by Madeleine L'Engle, Camazotz is a planet ruled by IT. It is similar to Earth having familiar trees, a hill, and a town. It is in fact quite depressing due to the fact that everything is duplicated. For example, the houses are all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray (L'Engle 1962). Camazotz is also a planet known to be given in to the Black thing which shows that it

Claire Standish or “the princess” portrays the stereotypical popular teenage girl in The Breakfast Club. She is in detention with everyone else because she decided to skip class and go shopping, which also plays into the stereotypical teen girl image. It can also be assumed that she is spoiled and rich since her father tried to get her out of detention but failed, and she mentions to the group that her parents only use her to get back at the other one. She brings a fancy lunch of sushi while the other teens either have nothing or the standard lunch one’s parents might pack for them. There are a couple of times in the movie that she brings up her social standing and could even be considered as looking down on those who are not as popular as her. Even closer towards the end of the movie she informs the others that if they were to say hello to her in the hallway in front of her friends, she would have no choice but to ignore them. By the end of the movie, she has opened up to everyone else about her fears of letting her peers down and has formed a close relationship with Bender.

The famous leader Martin Luther King once said, “Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.” This quote pretty much summed up the way in which African Americans felt during the 1960’s. They had basically no meaning to life. They were irrelevant. Whites wanted no part in them. This was especially the case in the state of Mississippi. Anne Moody, writer of the autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi explains the importance of the civil rights movement in the state of Mississippi and the influence it had on her life and her viewpoint.

In the book “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle, there were many obstacles that Meg Murray (the protagonist) had to go through. She feels like she’s not normal versus the other kids in her class. Meg learns maturity during her adventure against IT (the antagonist). She uses her weakness (anger) against IT but realizes that it doesn’t work. She uses her love for Charles Wallace to defeat the brain, IT. During her adventure she and the rest of her crew go to Camazotz where IT lives, as a result, she notices that the community that lives there seems to be controlled and does everything on a certain schedule. This is where the theme of the story shows that it is better to be different rather than being like everyone else. I feel

“Life changes in the instant…” a quote by Joan Didion has never summed up my life before this incident. I remember my colorful childhood where I was always kept in a cocoon where real problems did not exist. My parents easily changed the news channel and sent me back to my bedroom whenever there were any distressing topics discussed. I was kept away from suffering, poverty, war and death. Coming to think about it now, all my parents wanted was to save me from the negative emotions and preserve my innocence and childhood. Hence, it made me ignorant and self-centered because I was a frog in a well.

“In a Dark time” by Theodore Roethke gives a retrospect into the inner turmoil’s of finding oneself through a haze of doubts in till reaching a moment of clarity. Each section of the poem describes a different emotion, or inner thought that spirals from fear of death, to emotions of desire. The use of imagery between nature and uncertainties of the narrator give a glimpse into Roethke’s own mind during the time he wrote this poem. Without hundreds of pages Roethke created a poem that connects readers to their own self-doubts and struggles of finding ones way again.

My favorite character is Josh McGuire and the three reasons why I like Josh is. He went back and got the bear after his dad shot him. Josh and his dad brought the Bear home so he would not die without his mom in the woods. Josh ran away with the bear and Otis went to talk to Governor Cecil to try and change the law for hunting bears.

Everyone who reads a story will interpret things slightly different than the person who reads it before or after him or her. This idea plays out with most every story, book, song, and movie. These interpretations create conflict and allow people to discuss different ideas and opinions. Without this conflict of thought there is no one devoting time to debate the true meaning of a text. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tells about a woman who is informed of her husbands death, processes the emotions, and becomes content with this new status as an individual person – losing all the expectations that society expected her to live by within a marriage. This story however is written in a way that the reader has the final interpretation of the text. There are many different interpretations on not only the reason for the main character’s death, but also on the overwhelming emotions that she faces.

“the mother” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945 who was born in topeka Kansas on June 7, 1917. “the mother” was published in her 1945 collection “A Street in Bronzeville”, in 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize.(bio) “the mother” is a great description of a mother going through a time of remembering her wrongs and pondering on what could have been. The poem “the mother” is a anti-abortion poem, it is a emotional outpour of the sense of guilt by a mother who has regrets, she speaks of mothers who have had abortions and how they will never forget. The title “the mother” is not capitalized so it makes it feel as if the writer is making the mother less important or not important at all.

Thesis Statement: In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, the main character, Meg Murry, develops into a independent, caring person. In the beginning of the novel, Meg is impatient and she’s full of doubt. Meg, Charles and Charles Wallace arrive on the three W’s home planet.

Kate Chopin provides her reader with an enormous amount of information in just a few short pages through her short story, “The Story of an Hour.” The protagonist, Louise Mallard, realizes the many faults in romantic relationships and marriages in her epiphany. “Great care [is] taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 168). Little do Josephine and Richards know, the news will have a profoundly positive effect on Louise rather than a negative one. “When she abandoned herself,” Mrs. Mallard opened her mind to a new way of life. The word usage shows that the protagonist experienced a significant change. This life wouldn’t be compromised by her partner’s will, which will enable her to live for

The book “A Wrinkle in Time” is about a girl named Meg Murry, high schooler who gets transported on an adventure through time in order to save her father who is a gifted scientist. She travels through time with her brother Charles Wallace and a school friend Calvin O’Keefe. Meg’s father is being held prisoner from the evil forces on another planet and Meg as well as Charles and Calvin need to find him.