Midway Review for A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is about a girl named Meg Murray, a high school aged girl who's father has been missing for over a year. The story starts with Mrs. Whatsit arriving at Meg's house on a stormy evening. Mrs. Whatsit looks like an old lady but is actually a celestial creature that is able to read the thoughts of others. Mrs. Whatsit introduces Meg to the tesseract, a "wrinkle in space and time". Using the tesseract Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and friend Calvin O'Keefe are able to travel through the fifth dimension in search of Meg's father. So far I have some what enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time but it has been extremely hard for me to visualize the story. Although the author uses effective description techniques some of the ideas presented in the book seem outlandish, making it very hard to picture. Despite this difficulty, I really think the plot is unique and is something that I am extremely interested.

One of the main themes in this book is accepting how things are and not trying to comprehend everything. This can be seen in the text when the author says, "But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist," (p. 46) I found that this theme was present throughout the book. Meg at first attempts to find out the explanation for everything that is unknown to her, but later on realizes that things like family and love are more important to her.