I'm back with more from A Wrinkle In Time! I left off with Camazotz, didn't I? Well, after that the children and Mr. Murry (Meg's father) have to leave and go to Ixchel and leave Charles Wallace behind because they cannot overcome and fight IT. When Meg goes through the Black Thing, she gets frozen and everyone thinks that she is dead. She is then taken care of by creatures that are fuzzy and have tentacles, but cannot hear or see or smell because they have no faces.
They were the same dull gray color as the flowers. If they hadn't walked upright they would have seemed like animals. They moved directly toward the three human beings. They had four arms and far more than five fingers to each hand, and the fingers were not fingers, but long waving tentacles. They had heads, and they had faces. but where the faces of the creatures on Uriel had seemed far more than human faces, these seemed far less. Where the features would normally be there were several indentations, and in place of ears and hair there were more tentacles. They were tall, meg realized as they came closer, far taller than any man. They had no eyes, just soft indentations.
After reading this section about the creatures and the pain Meg is in from being frozen and going through the Black Thing, and Meg's father's disappearance, the trauma lens could also be applied. Meg is really impacted by the disappearance of her father, and that could be considered as trauma because she is picked on and beat up by the kids at school. She forms a closer relationship with Charles Wallace for support and also because she cares for him, but when they have to leave him behind on Camazotz when they escape from IT, she freaks out and is really unreasonable, taking it out on her father, even though she has missed him and loves him. Meg feels like her father doesn't care for her, but when Charles Wallace was with her on Camazotz, and has become a part of IT, she feels so helpless and stressed because she cannot bring Charles Wallace back to her. Charles Wallace is being mean to her newly found father and to Calvin and Meg. It seems hopeless, but then Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which come to tesser the children back to Camazotz to finish their mission: to destroy IT and bring back the variation and differences in the people who live there. Mrs. Which gives her the gift of her faults, and Meg goes back alone.
Yyou hhave ssomethhinngg thatt ITT hhass nnott.
But Meg doesn't understand what she means, and to know what she has that IT does not is the way she will triumph.
"You have nothing that IT hasn't got," Charles Wallace said coldly. "How nice to have you back, dear sister. We have been waiting for you. We knew that Mrs. Whatsit would send you. She is our friend, you know." For an appalling moment Meg believed, and in that moment she felt her brain being gathered into IT.
"No!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "No! You lie!" For a moment she was free from ITs clutches again. As long as I stay angry enough IT can't get me. Is that what I have that IT doesn't have?
"Nonsense," Charles Wallace said. "You have nothing that it doesn't have."
"You're lying," she replied, and she felt only anger toward this boy who was not Charles Wallace at all. No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT. The red miasma swam before her eyes; her stomach churned in ITs rhythm. Her body trembled with the strength of her hatred and the strength of IT. With the last vestige of consciousness she jerked her mind and body. Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.
"You are lying about that, and you were lying about Mrs. Whatsit!" she screamed.
"Mrs. Whatsit hates you," Charles Wallace said. And that was where IT made ITs fatal mistake, for as Meg said, automatically, "Mrs. Whatsit loves me; that's what she told me, that she loves me," suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what IT did not have.
Meg saves her brother and destroys IT in the process. She is brought back home, along with Calvin, Charles Wallace, and her father by Mrs. Whatsit. What a feeling of relief Meg probably felt after she was home and safe, after saving a planet, her brother AND her father. She also must have been happy, now that everyone is safe and her father is home again. They show a unique kind of family love, one where no one is afraid to show their emotions for another family member, and they demonstrate that by the greetings and the hugging that progresses from the time that Meg and Charles Wallace touch down in the twins' vegetable garden. Then, when Mrs. Whatsit, Who and Which turn up, and Meg feels even happier.
"Meg knew all at once that Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which must be near, because all through her she felt a flooding of joy and of love that was even greater and deeper than the joy and love which were already there.
The family, though, never gets to learn what it was that Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which had to do, because a gust of wind blows them away, and the three disappear.
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