What is Calvin's gift from Mrs. Whatsit?

In A Wrinkle in Time, before the children are about to enter Camazotz, Mrs. Whatsit grants each of the children with a gift. Calvin's gift is the ability to communicate.
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What gift did Mrs. Whatsit give Calvin?

Mrs. Whatsit tells Charles Wallace that she was very scared when she sacrificed herself. Then she gives each kid a talisman. Meg is given her own faults, Charles Wallace is given the ability to bounce back, and Calvin is given the gift of communication.
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What is Mrs. Whatsit parting gift to Meg?

The Mrs. W's each give Meg a gift to help her: Mrs. Who gives her a bible quote and Mrs. Whatsit gives Meg the gift of her love.
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What gift does Mrs. Whatsit give Meg at the end of the book to help her overcome it?

Meg struggles to embrace her faults until she is faced with hardships she must overcome to save her brother. Mrs. Whatsit gives Meg the gift of her faults to help save Charles Wallace. Assume you've been given the gift of your faults.
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Who received the talisman of faults from Mrs. Whatsit?

Whatsit channels the Wizard of Oz and gives each of the kids "a little talisman" (6.82): Meg gets her faults, saying that they'll be useful on Camazotz; Charles Wallace gets his childhood ability to bounce back; and Calvin gets a power boost on his natural gift of communication. Mrs.
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How does Calvin use this gift?

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Whatsit says to Calvin before the children go to Camazotz, "Your great gift is your ability to communicate, to communicate with all kinds of people." Calvin uses his gift to persuade Charles Wallace from the side of IT. Although he fails, Calvin almost had Charles out of IT's grasp.
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How does Calvin's gift from Mrs. Whatsit How does Calvin try to use this gift work?

Whatsit has informed Calvin that his greatest gift is his ability to communicate, Calvin's attempt to win back Charles Wallace through words is just as futile as his effort to reach him by physical touch. Words once again prove woefully inadequate, just as they did when Mrs.
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What is Mrs Witch's gift?

Mrs. Who gives Meg her thick funny spectacles, Calvin an excerpt from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and Charles a quotation from Goethe. Mrs. Which's "gift" to all three children is the command that they go down into the town and stay strong together.
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When they see Calvin's mother through the medium crystal ball what do they see?

Q. When they see Calvin's mother through the Medium's crystal ball, what do they see? Calvin's mother standing in front of a sink, very unkempt, and she is screaming at two small children. Calvin's mother standing in front of a mirror, very well groomed, and she is singing to two small children.
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Why did Mrs. Whatsit stop being a star?

Why did she stop being this? A star; She gave her life to help defeat evil.
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What are the gifts in wrinkle in time?

Whatsit tells the children that she cannot come with them in search of Mr. Murry; they are on their own here. However, she gives them three "gifts": to Calvin, his unusual ability to communicate, to Meg, her faults, and to Charles, his childhood.
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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 did Mrs. Whatsit reveal about herself?

Whatsit reveal about herself? Mrs. Whatsit reveals that she was once a star, and had fought/hit the black thing and is why she is in her current form. Describe the scene revealed about Calvin's family by the Happy Medium.
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What happens in chapter 7 of A Wrinkle in Time?

In chapter 7 of A Wrinkle in Time, the three kids have come face-to-face with the Black Thing, or the concentrated evil that is slowly overtaking the universe. The evil man is able to get into Meg and Calvin's minds and convince them that a synthetic substance is a lovely turkey dinner.
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How old is Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time?

Charles Wallace Murry

Charles Wallace is the youngest Murry child, at six years old. Charles Wallace speaks only to his family, but can empathically or telepathically read certain people's thoughts and feelings.
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What is Meg's greatest fault?

Meg's faults, in other words, are a response to a world that tries to push her into conformity. The world is an unjust place that viciously punishes any sort of difference, and Meg feels its unjustness with the full force of adolescence.
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What is the dark thing?

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.
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How is Calvin's home life different from Meg's how is his school life different from Meg's?

How is Calvin's school life different than Meg's? He knows what to do to fit in and hides his abilities so he will fit in. What does Mrs. Murry mean when she says,".. just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
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What happens to Mrs. Whatsit And how do the children respond?

What happens to Mrs. Whatsit, and how do the children respond? She transforms into a beautiful being similar to a horse with wings. They climb on her back and they go for a ride.
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What did Meg have that it did not?

Charles tells Meg that Mrs. Whatsit hates her, and at that moment, Meg realizes the one thing that she has that IT does not have: love. Though she cannot possibly love IT, she can love Charles Wallace, and she calls out to him with the force of her love.
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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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In what ways are Mrs Who's glasses are useful for Meg on Camazotz?

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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Why is there no illness on Camazotz?

In Camazotz there is no illness (but only because people who show any signs of being sick are executed), no murder (but only because CCI, through IT, controls the way people think and act), no wars and no accidents. Everyone shares IT's mind. Meg interrupts to ask him what IT is. Charles Wallace says IT is the boss.
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What happened in chapter 10 of A Wrinkle in Time?

In this chapter, L'Engle demonstrates that evil is not merely external, as Meg would like to believe. 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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What happened in Chapter 8 of A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg and Calvin try to hold Charles to get him to come out of his trance. It almost works, but then the man with red eyes brings in guards to hold Calvin and Meg away from Charles. The man with red eyes admits that he is being controlled by IT, and tells Charles to take Meg and Calvin to see Mr.
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