The Murry Family
Meg feels like a "misfit" because her father is missing and she is struggling at this place.
What is School?
This is the first "Mrs." the family meets; she wears layers of colorful clothes and scarves.
Who is Mrs. Whatsit?
Mrs. Who uses this piece of clothing to show that the shortest distance is a "fold," not a line.
What is her skirt
This is the cold, scary shadow that is trying to take over the universe.
What is the Black Thing?
This is the planet where everyone does everything at the exact same time.
What is Camazotz?
Charles Wallace is "different" because he can often tell what Meg is thinking and feeling by...
Reading her mind
Mrs. Who speaks mostly by using these from famous books because she finds her own words hard to use.
What are quotes?
Tesser is another word for "wrinkling" time; the book says this is the "fifth" one of these.
What is a dimension?
The Mrs. Ws say that Earth is "shadowed," meaning it is currently doing this against the darkness.
What is fighting (or resisting)?
The children see a mother pull her son inside because he accidentally did this with his ball.
What is dropped it?
Meg is very good at this subject, but she gets in trouble because she does it "her own way."
What is Math?
This "Mrs." is the leader and the oldest; she often looks like a shimmering light because she is hard to see.
Who is Mrs. Which?
Mrs. Whatsit explains that she used to be one of these before she gave up her life to fight the dark.
What is a star?
To fight the shadow, the Mrs. Ws say the world needs people who...
Bring "light," like artists and people who are working for positive change
Mrs. Who gives Meg these to use only in an "absolute emergency."
Her glasses
Before they leave, Mrs. Whatsit gives Meg this
Mrs. Whatsit transforms into a beautiful creature with wings on this colorful planet.
What is Uriel?
On Uriel, the centaur-creatures give the children these so they can breathe in the thin air.
What are flowers?
The Happy Medium shows the children a vision of this person to remind them why they are fighting.
Who is their mother (Mrs. Murry)?
Mrs. Which gives the children one final command: they must stay together and do this.
Stay together
Meg's father disappeared while he was working on a secret project for this organization.
The government
When they land on a two-dimensional planet, what happens to the children?
They become completely flat and almost die
The 4th dimension is time; the "tesseract" is the 5th dimension, which is the "square" of this shape.
What is a cube?
Time is the 4th dimension. What is the 5th?
Tessering
The children realize the people on Camazotz aren't robots, but their minds are doing this.
Pulsing