Plot
Why was Meg sent to the principal’s office?
She let her anger get the best of her by being rude to her social studies teacher.
She is a big help to the kids but is a little weird and steals sheets.
Who is Mrs. Whatsit
Where the three witches live.
What is Uriel?
Because he is gone, the children have to find and free him, setting the story in motion.
Who is Mr. Murry?
The author portrays the danger of this idea when Charles Wallace is taken over by It.
What is the danger of not thinking for yourself?
Meg and Charles Wallace think this is what their father is fighting.
What is the darkness in the sky?
She must learn to love and respect herself in order to save her family.
Who is Meg?
This phrase lets the reader know everything is not okay at the beginning of the novel.
What is "It was a dark and stormy night?"
Meg’s negative attitude creates this conflict for her at school.
What is being dropped down to the lowest section of her grade?
The author conveys this theme by including many allusions to artists and inventors and great thinkers in history.
What is creativity?
To make ghosts that will scare anyone away from the haunted house.
What is the reason Mrs. Whatsit steals the sheets?
He helps Meg learn to appreciate that she has a family who loves her and also helps her communicate.
Who is Calvin?
This place is judgment-free because all of the beasts there are blind.
What is Ixchel?
This is the main problem Meg has to overcome to save her family.
What is Charles Wallace becomes controlled by IT?
The author portrays this theme by having Meg start out believing that she is abnormal, but ending by realizing that it's good to be different.
What is the value of nonconformity?
When they were on the planet Uriel, she turned into the creature so the kids could ride on her back, landing on one of Uriel’s moons to see the Black Thing.
Who was Mrs.Whatsit?
Meg loves her but also feels envious and inadequate because she thinks she will never live up to her beauty and intelligence.
Who is Mom
It's a symbol for a journey into the unknown that is likely dangerous and mysterious.
What is the forest?
She is negative because she has no faith in the world or in herself, which is one of the major inner conflicts of the story.
Who is Meg?
The author demonstrates this theme when Meg uses this feeling to save Charles Wallace from It.
What is the importance of love?
On Camazotz, he let himself be hypnotized by It so he could figure out who was hypnotizing him but It took control and he turned into an evil robot like creature.
Who was Charles Wallace?
He must learn to understand his own limits because his fearlessness and overconfidence in his own abilities put him at risk and in danger.
Who is Charles Wallace?
The place where everyone is alike and were Mr. Murry is held prisoner. In Mayan mythology, it means “Death bat.”
What is Camazotz?
Because Meg feels different from everyone else, she comes to this negative belief about herself, which is the major inner conflict she must overcome.
What is Meg feels like she’s not good enough?
The author demonstrates this theme by creating him with an extraordinary intelligence and possible autism.
What is the value of diversity?