Why does Murry allow the beast to help Meg?

Though Mr. Murry is at first against it, he consents to allowing these beasts to take Meg to heal her, since they reveal that they are also fighters against the Black Thing. They reveal that it is, in fact, tessering through the Black Thing that has caused Meg's injuries.
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Why are they letting the beasts take Meg?

The beasts seem surprised that Calvin and the Murrys are not used to meeting beings from other planets. They tell their guests that they must entrust Meg to their care because she is extremely vulnerable and weak.
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Why did Aunt Beast have to care for Meg?

Murry tessers himself, Calvin, and Meg away from Camazotz in a desperate attempt to save themselves from IT and Meg is subsequently injured, Aunt Beast is one of the tentacle beasts native to the planet they then land on who nurses Meg back to help. She is kind and loving, and helps to heal Meg's body and mind.
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How does Mr. Murry help Meg on the journey back?

Mr. Murray helps his daughter, Meg, on her journey back to Camazotz by telling her that he will be brave.
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How did the creature heal Meg?

If so, how? Meg was healed by Aunt Beast's tenderly love and care. Aunt Beast rubbed lotions and bathed Meg. Aunt Beast also provided warmth and food for Meg.
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Does Meg trust Aunt Beast?

Meg trusts the beasts more than she trusts Calvin and her father because she feels that her father and Calvin are not as concerned as they should be about Charles Wallace.
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What are the beasts a symbol of in a wrinkle in time?

Murry, and Calvin share a common goal with the beasts: They are all against evil, which they frequently refer to as darkness. This figurative view of darkness is in line with the way the beasts experience reality- through its essence rather than its appearance.
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What is the dark thing in A Wrinkle in Time?

Lesson Summary

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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What is the message of 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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When the creature picked up Meg How did she feel?

Murry explains how they came to be on their planet and what's wrong with Meg. One of the creatures reaches towards Meg with a tentacle; at first she's horrified, but then finds the touch soothing because it warms and comforts her.
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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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How old is Meg in wrinkle in time?

The main character is thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, who is regarded by her peers and teachers as a bad-tempered underachiever. Her family recognizes her problem as a lack of emotional maturity but also regards her as being capable of great things.
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How old is Mrs who in A Wrinkle in Time?

Changes to Mrs.

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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What does Meg identify as the one thing she possesses and it does 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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How Does 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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Is it defeated in a wrinkle in time?

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... See full answer below.
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Who is the most courageous character in A Wrinkle in Time?

Throughout the novel, A Wrinkle in Time, Meg proves to be a character who shows courage, learns leadership, and understands self-confidence. Meg is beginning to be brave and courageous when it matters most.
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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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When was A Wrinkle in Time banned?

For L'Engle's conservative critics, this passage suggests that Jesus Christ was just one special or gifted human among many, and that important religious figures from other faiths (such as Buddhism) were no more or less important. That passage alone garnered Wrinkle a 1990 ban from an Alabama school district.
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What creature did Mrs. Whatsit turn into?

Mrs Whatsit turns into a centaur like creature with wings made of rainbows.
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What does Uriel look like in A Wrinkle in Time?

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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What did Meg believe the black thing was?

Whatsit identifies as one of Uriel's moons, and watch a sunset and moonset. Then, above the clouds, they see a blackness that seems to envelop all the stars around it. Meg knows instinctively that the shadow is the most concentrated form of evil she has ever seen, for it is not cast by any object but is a Thing itself.
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Is Aunt Beast in Wrinkle in Time Movie?

In Madeleine L'Engle's original novel, Meg Murry is saved at one point by a creature identified as Aunt Beast, but that sequence didn't make it into the theatrical version of the movie.
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Do Meg and Calvin get married?

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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Who are the 3 witches in A Wrinkle in Time?

Plot summary

Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which turn out to be supernatural beings who transport Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe through the universe by means of a tesseract, a fifth-dimensional phenomenon explained as folding the fabric of space and time; this form of travel is called tessering.
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