A WRINKLE IN TIME Flashcards
who is the author of the novel a wrinkle in time
Madeleine L’Engle
give 1 award of A Wrinkle In Time
newberry medal (1963)
when was a wrinkle in time published
january 1, 1962
who is the illustrator of a wrinkle in time
ellen raskin
A beautiful, sweet-smelling planet thatradiates peace andjoy
uriel
A planet with a surfacethat resembles earthbut is troubled by asense of unease.
camazotz
A foggy, grey, androcky planet
a planet in orion’s belt
A planet without light;home to sightless,kind, helpful beastswho restore Meg’s health.
ixchel
a character that experiences a lot of change throughout the course of the book. She is a scared, lonely girl struggling to find your voice at the beginning, and at the end of the book she is a brave young woman ready to stand up for herself.
Margaret “Meg” Murry
the younger brother of Meg Murry and the youngest child in the Murry Family.
often considered a freak by his peers, because he rarely ever speaks. As a result of this, most people think he never learned to talk at all.
Charles Wallace Murry
a microbiologist, wife of Dr. Alexander Murry, and mother of the four Murry children.
Mrs. Murry (Kate 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.
Mr. Murry (Alex Murry)
the twin middle children in the Murry family
Sandy and Dennys Murry
Meg’s love interest
Calvin O’Keefe
a portal through space and time
a ‘wrinkle’ in time
tesseract
is described as having many layers of clothes on.
she was one of the individuals who accompanied meg, charles, and calvin in their journey
Mrs. Whatsit
communicates in English, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese and Greek, notably quoting William Shakespeare, Pascal, Dante, Seneca, A. Perez, Horace, Cervantes, Delille, Euripides, the Bible and Goethe.
one of the individuals who accompanied meg, charles, and calvin in their journey
Mrs. Who
She is the wisest of the three women and upon appearing, immediately demonstrates her vast knowledge of understanding in the tesseract.
one of the individuals who accompanied meg, charles, and calvin in their journey
Mrs. Which
shows them the evil that is happening, but also the good that is being done to fight the evil, so that the children can achieve a happy medium in their outlook going in to fight the Black Thing.
Happy Medium
the man they saw in camazotz that is controlled by IT. he brought them to the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building and managed to make charles be under control of IT
The Man with the Red Eyes
a cosmic force as well as the incarnation of evil, and is insinuated to be It ‘s master.
the black thing
the main antagonist of the novel
He is a powerful entity taking the form of a brain, and he is the ruler of planet Camazotz.
IT
