How old is Mrs. Who?

In the original manuscript of A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs. Whatsit calculates her age to be exactly 625,379,152,497 years, 8 months, and 3 days old. After editing, the number changes to 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months, and 3 days old due to L'Engle's research into the possible age of the universe.
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Is Mrs. Whatsit the oldest?

Mrs. Whatsit is the youngest of the three celestial beings guiding Meg, Charles, and Calvin on their journey. In the novel, she's the first of the three Mrs. W's introduced as she stumbles across the Murry house during a storm disguised as an old “tramp,” revealing the existence of the tesseract.
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How old is Calvin in A Wrinkle in Time?

Calvin is the third oldest of Paddy and Branwen O'Keefe's eleven children: a tall, thin, red-haired 14-year-old high school junior.
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How do you describe Mrs who in A Wrinkle in Time?

Mrs Who is described as being a plump woman with giant spectacles. She is seen quoting in Latin, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Greek. She also quotes William Shakespeare repeatedly. Mrs Whatsit explains that Mrs Who finds it "difficult to verbalize" in her own words.
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What does Mrs who look like in the book?

Mrs. Who is described as a plump woman who wears spectacles.
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Does Mrs. Who Wear glasses?

Mrs. Who's other major characteristic is her glasses, which she gives to Meg as a gift on Camazotz. This gift perhaps suggests Meg's ability to see what the others cannot...or perhaps reinforces the idea that Meg's faults (like Mrs. Who, she wears glasses) are actually sources of power.
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What is Meg nickname in A Wrinkle in Time?

Margaret Murry (most often referred to by her nickname "Meg") is one of the main protagonists of the Time Quintet, and the main character of A Wrinkle in Time.
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Does Calvin like Meg?

Thanks to the other four novels in the Time Quintet and the O'Keefe novels, we know that Calvin and Meg eventually get married towards the end of the former series.
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How long was Mr Murry gone in A Wrinkle in Time?

Mr. 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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What does Mrs. Whatsit look like?

First appearing to Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin as an old, funnily dressed woman, Mrs. Whatsit is nothing close to what she appears to be. She was a star who gave her life to fight the darkness—now she is a beautiful winged centaur-like creature, when she's not taken on the form of an eccentrically dressed tramp.
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Does Calvin kiss Meg?

Calvin kisses Meg goodbye before Meg leaves to go Cazumutz to rescue her brother Charles Wallace.
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What does Calvin O'Keefe look like?

A Man of Many Hats

Well, this pretty much describes the life of Calvin O'Keefe in A Wrinkle in Time. You might say he wears a different hat at home, at school, and when he is with the Murry family. On the surface, he is a tall, thin teenage boy with freckles and blue eyes.
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Will There Be A Wrinkle in Time 2 movie?

Based on early reviews, it seems unlikely that a sequel will happen. Still, maybe audiences will feel differently. After all, the weirdness of this film is directly related to the weirdness of the book. A Wrinkle in Time is out in wide release now.
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Is Charles Wallace adopted in A Wrinkle in Time?

But for those keeping track, in the book, Charles Wallace is the biological son of Murrys, while in the very first scene of the film, we learn Charles Wallace is adopted. DuVernay said she made that change to honor McCabe's Filipino descent.
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Is Mrs. Whatsit an angel?

Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit can be seen as guardian angels. They help, protect, and provide information to help get the kids to save Mr.
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What did the black thing look like?

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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How old is Mr. Murry?

Charles Wallace Murry

Meg's extraordinarily intelligent five-year-old younger brother who is capable of reading minds and understanding other creatures in a way that none of the other Murry children can.
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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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What did Mrs. Who give to Charles?

Mrs. Who gives Meg her thick funny spectacles, Calvin an excerpt from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and Charles a quotation from Goethe.
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Who is the dad in A Wrinkle in Time?

Chris Pine plays Dr. Alex Murry, father to Meg and Charles Wallace and the scientist who went missing while discovering a new form of space travel.
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Who is the villain in A Wrinkle in Time?

Type of Villain

IT, also known as Red while possessing him, is the main antagonist of the novel A Wrinkle in Time (the first installment to the Time Quintet series), and its 2003 and 2018 film adaptations. He is a powerful entity taking the form of a brain, and he is the ruler of planet Camazotz.
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Why does Calvin Call Charles a moron?

Why does Calvin Call Charles a moron? Calvin heard that Charles couldn't talk and assumed he was a moron.
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What does Mrs. Whatsit turn into?

With Mrs. Who's permission, Mrs. Whatsit transforms herself into a beautiful creature with a horse's body and a human torso.
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