How does Meg save her father?

Finally, at wit's end, Meg remembers Mrs. Who's spectacles. By putting them over her eyes and throwing herself at the column, she successfully gets through to her father and stands by his side.
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How does Meg save her father in a wrinkle in time?

Meg, still wanting to get to her father, puts on the glasses Mrs. Who (a former celestial star and the one who brought the children to Camazotz to rescue Mr. Murry) gave her, which enables her to get through not only the wall, but also the column surrounding her father. Father and daughter are finally reunited.
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How does Meg bring Charles Wallace back to himself?

Meg pulls Charles Wallace back when he attacks the man with the red eyes. Meg tackles Charles Wallace when he gets hypnotized by the man, bringing him back to himself.
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How does Meg resolve the conflict with her father?

Meg resolves the conflict with her father when she realizes that he has human faults and he cannot always make things right. She realizes that it is up to her to rescue Charles Wallace from IT.
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How does Meg save Wallace?

How does Meg ultimately save Charles Wallace? Meg ultimately saves Charles Wallace by going by herself to Camazotz and faces IT and embraces her love for Charles Wallace. She thinks about how much she loves him.
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Why did Meg act mean to her father?

Meg unfairly blames her father for failing to rescue Charles Wallace; although she fails to realize it, her self-righteous accusation is characterized by the same evil exuded by IT and the Black Thing.
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How does Meg defeat it?

In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg defeats IT with love. She rescues her father from IT, but in the process, her brother Charles Wallace is left behind in IT's...
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What methods does Meg use to try to fight against it?

To try and fight it off, Meg yells the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. But when she says "that all men are created equal", IT, using Charles as mouthpiece, tells her that on Camazotz everyone is equal, everyone is alike.
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Why was Meg so disappointed in her father?

Her main disappointment is in her father: she was so sure once they found him that everything would be all right, that he would save them all. He responds that he is only a fallible man, and that "all things work together for the good to them that love God". Meg is not consoled.
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What happens to Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time?

Charles Wallace tries to fight IT with his exceptional intelligence but is overpowered by the evil and becomes a robot-like creature mouthing the words with which IT infuses him.
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How does Meg recover from her Tessering experience?

Very weak from tessering off Camazotz, Meg is healed physically by a mysterious race of creatures called Ixchelians.
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What does the food taste like to Charles Wallace?

Charles Wallace is unable to taste the food on Camazotz because it is tasteless and his mind resists the conditioning to make it taste like what it is.
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Does the father come back in A Wrinkle in Time?

Which (Oprah Winfrey). They tell Meg that her father is still alive and that his belief in tessering is real. The Misses declare that it is time to find Alex, and they transport the children across the universe. Everyone ends up on another planet called Uriel, which is beautiful and vibrant.
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How long was Meg's father missing in A Wrinkle in Time?

Murry, the children's long disappeared father, is a brilliant physicist who landed on a planet overtaken by the Black Thing when he tried to tesseract for the first time. He's been missing for over a year when his children rescue him from Camazotz.
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How does Meg feel about her father in Chapter 3?

Calvin tells Meg that she's very lucky to be loved – he loves his family, but they barely notice him. Calvin and Meg look at a picture of Meg's father. Calvin says that Mr. Murry looks kind of like him, all tall and gangly and not handsome, but Meg says she thinks they're both handsome.
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What are Meg's faults?

Meg's greatest faults are her anger, impatience, and lack of self-confidence, but she channels and overcomes them, ultimately emerging victorious.
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What power does Meg possess that it does not?

Meg realizes what this is: her ability to love. Thus, by concentrating on her love for Charles Wallace, she is able to restore him to his true identity.
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How does Meg change in A Wrinkle in Time?

Whatsit offers Meg a new way of perceiving herself: as someone who just needs a face-off with a giant brain to show her mettle. The very things that got Meg in trouble at home – her stubbornness, her rudeness, her tendency to be unmanageable and headstrong – turn out to be great weapons for brain-poking.
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HOW DID A Wrinkle in Time End?

Mr. Murry and Calvin Wallace both escaped from IT, but the giant brain dude is still pulsating out there on Camazotz, and most of the people of that planet probably didn't even know that the Murrys were poking at their collective brain. The ending of the novel is definitely happy.
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Why is Meg so sick after escaping from it?

Meg is sick because she is frightened for her brother and angry at her father and Calvin.
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Why is love so powerful in A Wrinkle in Time?

Love is the only thing she has that IT doesn't have—love is something that can only exist between different people, while IT destroys all difference. While Meg may think love a paltry thing at the beginning of the book, by the end she realizes she could possess nothing more empowering or valuable.
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How do Meg's faults help her?

Meg's faults do indeed come in handy on Camazotz: They save her life, and ultimately, they allow her to save the world. A Wrinkle in Time is one of the great classics of children's literature, a joyous science fictional rhapsody to the strength of free will and the power of love.
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Is Wrinkle in time banned?

Since its publication in 1962, A Wrinkle in Time has become one of the mostfrequently banned or challenged books, for multiple reasons. People have argued that it's too complicated for children, and earlier critics disapproved of its plucky female protagonist.
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Is A Wrinkle in Time connected to Marvel?

The powerful Tesseract isn't only central to the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also to the worlds of A Wrinkle in Time. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for A Wrinkle In Time, in theaters now.
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