How is Camazotz similar to Earth?

How is Camazotz similar to earth? It has the same kind of trees and weather patterns.
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How is Camazotz different from Earth in a wrinkle in time?

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This is a dark planet, meaning that it is controlled by evil. Those who live on Camazotz do not own their own thoughts; they are controlled by one central brain known as IT.
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Which 2 things exist on Earth but not on Camazotz?

Answers 2. The two things that exist on Earth and do not exist in Camazotz are individuality and love.
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What is the planet of Camazotz?

Camazotz is a planet of extreme, enforced conformity, ruled by a disembodied brain called IT.
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What does Camazotz feel like?

camazotz feels like earth, with the trees, flowers, and the atmosphere.
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What does Camazotz represent in A Wrinkle in Time?

Camazotz is the planet that IT is located on. The capital city of Camazotz is CENTRAL Central Intelligence. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin traveled to Camazotz to save Charles Wallace and Meg's father. While they were there, IT took control of Charles Wallace's brain.
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Do you think the dark thing surrounds Camazotz?

Yes, Camazotz is surrounded by the dark thing. The clues the author gave were they had to go through a cold clammy darkness to get to the planet, the witches couldn't come there, everyone on the planet acts strange, and Meg's father is a prisoner there.
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Why was Mr Murry on Camazotz?

Calvin asks why Mr. Murry went to Camazotz. Mr. Murry says it was a mistake: he was aiming for Mars and overshot.
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How does Meg get to Camazotz?

W's ultimately convince them that it is for the best. Meg says goodbye to her father, Calvin, and Aunt Beast, and also apologizes to her father for her accusatory outbursts. Mrs. Which tells Meg that she will tesser with her through the Black Thing so that Meg will arrive at Camazotz safely.
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What is the moral of the story A Wrinkle in Time?

A Wrinkle in Time combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with two of L'Engle's special themes—moral responsibility and the power of love, especially family love.
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What is the meaning behind A Wrinkle in Time?

Summary Overall Analysis and Themes. A Wrinkle in Time is a book about the battle between good and evil and the ultimate triumph of love. Every character is clearly identified with either good or evil: the "good" characters include Meg, her family, Calvin, the Mrs.
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What is the black thing in A Wrinkle in Time?

The Black Thing is Madeleine L'Engle's name for evil in A Wrinkle in Time. It appears as a dark shadow surrounding certain planets in the universe. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin must fight the Black Thing in order to rescue Mr.
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Why does Meg have to return to Camazotz?

Murry and Calvin both offer to return to Camazotz to save Charles Wallace, it is ultimately determined that Meg is the only one who could possibly succeed in saving Charles Wallace from IT's control. The Mrs.
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What is the world in Wrinkle in time called?

Camazotz. The lion's share of both the book and the movie take place in Camazotz, an Earth-like planet that has succumbed to the evil of the Black Thing. We learn in the book that the people of Camazotz have relinquished their free will to an entity called IT (the movie does not clearly explain this).
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What was the planet called in A Wrinkle in Time?

In a nutshell, Uriel is a fictional planet in Madeleine L'Engle's sci-fi/fantasy book A Wrinkle in Time. To quote the book exactly, it is ''the third planet of the star Malak in the spiral nebula Messier 101. '' It is a beautiful and peaceful planet, inhabited by beautiful and peaceful creatures.
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Who gets left behind on planet Camazotz?

At the end of the book the children have saved Mr. Murry from imprisonment on Camazotz, but Charles Wallace was taken over by IT, the one who had Mr. Murry, and was left behind. Meg is forced to go back to Camazotz alone to save her brother, using something that she has the IT can't fight.
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How long was Alex Murry missing?

In the book, Dr. Alex Murry is gone for a little more than a year before Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin go looking for him. In the movie, he is gone for four years. To be honest, this was one of the changes that was the hardest to swallow in the movie adaptation.
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What does Camazotz symbolize?

In Maya mythology, Camazotz (/kɑːməˈsɒts/ from Mayan /kämäˈsots/) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat god. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In Mesoamerica, the bat is associated with night, death, and sacrifice.
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Is Camazotz real?

No. The picture actually shows a piece of art created for an exhibit at the Mexican Museum of Design in 2014. Interestingly, there is a bat god named Camazotz in Mayan mythology. But it looks nothing like Batman.
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Is Camazotz a vampire?

In Mesoamerica the bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. Camazotz was known to drink the blood of his victims, and is thus often seen as a Mesoamerican vampire.
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What does the children's experience in a two dimensional planet tell you about Tesser travel?

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What does the children's experience in a two-dimensional planet tell you about tesser travel? During their journey, the children learn about the Dark Thing.
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What command did Mrs. Which give Meg Charles and Calvin on Camazotz?

What command did Mrs. Which give Meg, Charles, and Calvin on Camazotz? "Do not let them separate you."
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What does the planet Uriel look like?

In the 2018 film, Uriel is a bright, beautiful, planet located somewhere unknown on the universe. Uriel consists of many large, rolling green hills. It is filled with many flowers of multiple colors. There are also many crescent-shaped mountains in the distance.
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When was A Wrinkle in Time first banned?

In 1985, it was challenged by a parents' group at Polk City Elementary School in Florida. The parents charged that the book “opposes Christian beliefs and teaches occult practices,” but the school principle ruled against removing it from the fourth-grade curriculum.
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