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I really like the book A Wrinkle in Time because it begins with a really interesting kind of suspense. The suspense is that Meg is trying to find out or figure out what happened to her dad. At first her dad and her mom would send cards or messages through the mail all the timem, but then her dad stopped sending mail and her mom went to Washington to try and figure out what happened to her dad. when she gets to Washigton all they told her was that they would tell her about her dad as soon as they had information about him.
On the very begining Charles Wallace, Meg's smaller brother, Meg and her mom meet a lady called Mrs Whatsit. Later on the book when Meg and a boy named Calvin are sitting outdoors by a wall on the woods when all of a sudden Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, Mrs Which and Charles Wallace appear. Then Charles Wallace says we need to go now.
I really liked this book! It is very interesting, and without noticing, I am already in page 80. I felt really angry when Mrs Whatsit came and treated the Murry's family like servants, and messing their house. I feel sorry for Meg and Charles Wallace, because they are underestimated by everyone except their mother and father. Meg's teacher makes jokes about her, and that's innapropriate for a teacher to do. Now I wonder if Meg will be able to turn her life around?
I agree with Juhn because Mrs Whatsit really messed up their house when she came in and I bet that she didn't even notice or didn't care about it at all.
Responding to Thales. Yes, it will be surely suspense. It maybe will envolve them trying to find clues about the missing of their father. Maybe, Meg's father was so important that someone raptated him. Or he is being used as someone to work for the person that abducted him. I think he didn't leave home on purpose, if not, it would be kind of boring.
Responding to Max. Well, it is actually rising the action. It is telling the story of the family, and how Margaret's social/scholar life is not one of the best in the world. Keep reading and you will understand how everything fits together.
Also, I got annoyed when the twins didn't thank Meg after she fought with someone that said bad things about them. I would have surely thanked her even if I didn't want it. I would because she was trying to protect me, got hurt and then I would say that was stupid! If I were her I would NEVER do anything else for them because they are un-grateful. Un-grateful of someone caring for them enough to get into trouble.
At the beggining of this book, there was a lack of action, it was pretty slow, i didn't enjoy it a lot, it was quite boring but right now, i'm on page 87 and the book is becoming even more interesting then i thought, just when Charles Wallace, Meg Calvin changed planet, i'm like "here comes the action". Meg has discovered in what here father is trapped in and she knows what the evil force is. So right now the book is becoming very interesting and it might become suspensful.
Responding to thales's comment I think there will definitely be clues to find out where the dad is but to make the book even cooler, i think there should be some fights against evil creatures
I don't know why but i have a sensation that Mrs. Which is going to die at the end of the book. It just came up to my mind but i think that she will have to fight the Black thing to save the father and then she kills it and sends the dad free but then she dies. I don't know why but it just came up to my mind. We'll just have to find out.
P.S: This was just a guess so please Mrs kuhn, don't give me an F.
I am really liking the book A Wrinkle in Time. I love reading fantasies about the unknown, and this is perfect for my preferences. I am very curious to what happened to Margaret's and Charles Wallace's father. Their trips are very meaningful to the plot, and it is getting interesting about the stories of people and planets. I am also very fond of happy endings, but right now I'm in doubt if it will really be.
Responding to Max's comment: I also had that sensation! In fact, I had that sensation for Mrs Who and Mrs Whatsit too. I htink they will live in eternal happiness somewhere or die bravely helping someone. I can imagine them getting in the way of a bullet, for example, so they can protect Meg/Calvin/Charles Wallace. I've also got the feeling that they will somehow hide secrets that are very important for Meg/Charles Wallace.
Responding to Thales's response to me: I know that there is going to be suspense. I am predicting that they are going to fight against evil creatures (I agree with Max, too!). Also, I think they will go to these different planets and find different pieces to the "puzzle". I bet that Calvin is going to be someone useful at sometime, if not he is a additional, good-for-nothing character.
I am really curious about the red eyed man. Firstly, he is one of the commanders in that planet and seems like a robot like everyone. Secondly, he knows a lot about Meg and Charles Wallace. In Literature Circles, we discussed about him probably being their father. I think that he was watching them from afar all that time that he was gone. Those are reasons why I'm curious about the red eyed man.
I also really like this book until now, a lot of suspense is being showed up. I think that the man with red eyes is completely under the contro of IT. IT is kind of the controler of the whole planet. Actually, I think that everybody is inslaved by IT. But the book reserves a lot of surprises, and like Juliana said, I beleive in happy endings but right now I'm nopt quite sure it's going to end with a happy ending. But until now, I really like this book.
I've been reading a little of the book today, and I was pretty impressed, because when someone mensioned the IT, I thought it would be some kind of big guy that had could control the planet Camazotz by himself because he is so strong or something like that. But actually, I just read through that part and guess what, IT has nothing to do with a regular person It is actually an it because it is undescribable, IT is a brain. A bodiless brain. Nothing more than a brain, nothing less than a brain. Iwas pretty shocked when I read through this part because it was nothing I imagined.
Responding to juliana, I also predict a lot of suspense and puzzeles to solve, and i think that you are right about Calvin, a good-for-nothing character, completely useless, like he has nothing to do in the story. He is only acompanying Meg and Charles through the odyssey but he is the only friend of Meg. But also another thing that I forgot to mention and that shocked me, the great, the powerful Charles Wallace is possessed by the mighty IT. Without Charles Wallace, it's like, the story has no point of being made, I'm pretty sad right now. He is the brain of the story. The actual good person of the story. But now, he is kind of evil, just like the man with red eyes.
You know what, I read until page 170 and it's pretty weird. First of all, the father of Meg with Calvin have left camzotz because they tessered to a bizzar place. Second, the father left Charles Wallace on Camazotz. well of course there was a reason. The reason is theat is Charles tessered, he would have probably died because he is still under ITs control. But I wouldn't have left my son alone on a random planet. I mean how cruel is that, I would of at least tried to find a way to unpossessed Charles from IT. The third weird thing is that Meg Calvin and father have seen weird creatures with tentacule and no eyes. They said that they were going to take Meg. I went as far as that, the chapter ended just when they said that.
I did not like the last few chapters of the book because they sort of keep on saying the same thing throughout the last 4 chapters. For example when they meet this creature that is like an octopus they keep on saying that is was scary and they had no light.
In response to max's comment. I also think that it was weird that her father left the planet without charles wallace. I also think that he shouuldn't have left the planet without him.
I personaly didn't likie the end of the book because i found it boring but overall i found A Wrinkle in Time a great book and i certainly think that Mrs. Kuhn should give this book to her nexts 7 graders.
In reponse to max's comment. I think that the author of this book really knows what she is doing and how to make suspense in this book because it surely has a lot of suspense in it.
Responding to Max. I was also impressed that IT was a brain. When I read about it's features and how it acted it really made me disgusted. Imagine this huge clump of goo with pink, worm-like huge pile! I was also impressed that it could control everything and wanted everyone to keep his rhythm in sync. Also, IT was huge so it was all Camazotz citizens with one brain. I was really shocked at that part.
Responding to Max. I liked that part of the book! I agree with you that it was strange a father to leave their child behind in such wierd place like Camazotz with IT. But I really liked the part with Aunt Beast! I really liked the descriptions of this book, I could just feel like Meg in Aunt Beast's arms, and her motherly figure towards her. I wished I could feel what Meg felt when she was there. That's why I liked that part of the book.
I would totally recommend A Wrinkle in Time for the 7th graders to come! It is a book of mystery and suspense, with very juicy, descpritive parts and parts that you just want to know what is going to happen next. I loved the plot, the idea, in general. I think that the author could have complimented in the end because the climax just suddenly stops, and I was really shocked that it just ended there. This is why I would recommend this book!
I really thought that the part where Meg discovers that IT doesn't feel love connects to The Giver. I thought that because in Jonas's community they didn't think love was a feeling. There, love was a complex word that wasn't understood. Both Camazotz and the community share that because people have the same routine and never change it, if not, they will be killed/punished. That is why I think A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver connect to eachother.
I thought that the book itself was interesting. It was kind of weird in the middle because they went on different planets, and i never read books like that. In the book i mostly liked the middle, because they went on camazotz to find the father and Charles Wallace was captured by IT. There was alots of things happening. The beggining though had a lack of action because it was introducing all of the characters. And the end, I really wanted to talk about that. The thing is that the climax, i thought it was terrible, there was no actual fighting at the moment, the book itself ahd a lack of fighting which made me like it a bit less. The whole climax was based on love and only saying" I love you Charles, Oh yes, i love you so much," that was about what Meg said in the climax and nothing else happened. Also at the end of the book it does not talk about the Black Thing and IT. The book doesn't tell what happens to those two things. But this book, i would give it an 7.9/10. So it was all right.
Responding to Juliana, I would also definitely reccomend this book for the next seventh graders. The book has a lot of suspense and action. Also i can bet that any of the sixth graders have read a book about going on other planets and about these creatures like Aunt Beast which are like aliens. Also nobody would think about IT being a brain except Madeleine Lengle. The bad guy of thestory is a brain. So yeah, i would definitely reccomend that book for the next seventh graders.
I also agree with THales, because the author isn't any kind of novice for making books like that. She knows how to create the suspense. At the end of each chapters, the next chapter is still talking about the same thing as the preceeding chapter. For example: On one of the chapters there is these aliens that come because Meg and Calvin and the father are on another planet, the chapter ends with the beasts saying " We want the girl," and then talks directly about that on the next chapter because the father says "No way,". It's the first sentence of the chapter. So the author really knows how to create suspense.
My favorite part of the book was when charles Wallace was possessed by IT and Meg saw her father for the first time. THis scene is great, well i thought it was great, because there is a lot of suspense and action. When Meg first sees her father, she is so happy, but she would scream or knock on the glass and her father would not give a response, so she didn't know what to do. then she took the spectacles that Mrs. Who gave her and she could pass through the column. She didn't see that where her father was it was all dark because she had the spectacles. But actually her father was blind in there because it was so dark. THen Charles Wallace came and there was kind of a fight. But i really liked this part.
I really like the book A Wrinkle in Time because it begins with a really interesting kind of suspense. The suspense is that Meg is trying to find out or figure out what happened to her dad. At first her dad and her mom would send cards or messages through the mail all the timem, but then her dad stopped sending mail and her mom went to Washington to try and figure out what happened to her dad. when she gets to Washigton all they told her was that they would tell her about her dad as soon as they had information about him.
ReplyDeleteOn the very begining Charles Wallace, Meg's smaller brother, Meg and her mom meet a lady called Mrs Whatsit. Later on the book when Meg and a boy named Calvin are sitting outdoors by a wall on the woods when all of a sudden Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, Mrs Which and Charles Wallace appear. Then Charles Wallace says we need to go now.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this book! It is very interesting, and without noticing, I am already in page 80. I felt really angry when Mrs Whatsit came and treated the Murry's family like servants, and messing their house. I feel sorry for Meg and Charles Wallace, because they are underestimated by everyone except their mother and father. Meg's teacher makes jokes about her, and that's innapropriate for a teacher to do. Now I wonder if Meg will be able to turn her life around?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Juhn because Mrs Whatsit really messed up their house when she came in and I bet that she didn't even notice or didn't care about it at all.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Thales.
ReplyDeleteYes, it will be surely suspense. It maybe will envolve them trying to find clues about the missing of their father. Maybe, Meg's father was so important that someone raptated him. Or he is being used as someone to work for the person that abducted him. I think he didn't leave home on purpose, if not, it would be kind of boring.
Responding to Max.
ReplyDeleteWell, it is actually rising the action. It is telling the story of the family, and how Margaret's social/scholar life is not one of the best in the world. Keep reading and you will understand how everything fits together.
Also, I got annoyed when the twins didn't thank Meg after she fought with someone that said bad things about them. I would have surely thanked her even if I didn't want it. I would because she was trying to protect me, got hurt and then I would say that was stupid! If I were her I would NEVER do anything else for them because they are un-grateful. Un-grateful of someone caring for them enough to get into trouble.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Juhn's comment I think that the book has a lot of suspense to it and that it will involve to find clues to figure out where her dad is.
ReplyDeleteAt the beggining of this book, there was a lack of action, it was pretty slow, i didn't enjoy it a lot, it was quite boring but right now, i'm on page 87 and the book is becoming even more interesting then i thought, just when Charles Wallace, Meg Calvin changed planet, i'm like "here comes the action". Meg has discovered in what here father is trapped in and she knows what the evil force is. So right now the book is becoming very interesting and it might become suspensful.
ReplyDeleteResponding to thales's comment
ReplyDeleteI think there will definitely be clues to find out where the dad is but to make the book even cooler, i think there should be some fights against evil creatures
I don't know why but i have a sensation that Mrs. Which is going to die at the end of the book. It just came up to my mind but i think that she will have to fight the Black thing to save the father and then she kills it and sends the dad free but then she dies. I don't know why but it just came up to my mind. We'll just have to find out.
ReplyDeleteP.S: This was just a guess so please Mrs kuhn, don't give me an F.
I am really liking the book A Wrinkle in Time. I love reading fantasies about the unknown, and this is perfect for my preferences. I am very curious to what happened to Margaret's and Charles Wallace's father. Their trips are very meaningful to the plot, and it is getting interesting about the stories of people and planets. I am also very fond of happy endings, but right now I'm in doubt if it will really be.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Max's comment:
ReplyDeleteI also had that sensation! In fact, I had that sensation for Mrs Who and Mrs Whatsit too. I htink they will live in eternal happiness somewhere or die bravely helping someone. I can imagine them getting in the way of a bullet, for example, so they can protect Meg/Calvin/Charles Wallace. I've also got the feeling that they will somehow hide secrets that are very important for Meg/Charles Wallace.
Responding to Thales's response to me:
ReplyDeleteI know that there is going to be suspense. I am predicting that they are going to fight against evil creatures (I agree with Max, too!). Also, I think they will go to these different planets and find different pieces to the "puzzle". I bet that Calvin is going to be someone useful at sometime, if not he is a additional, good-for-nothing character.
I am really curious about the red eyed man. Firstly, he is one of the commanders in that planet and seems like a robot like everyone. Secondly, he knows a lot about Meg and Charles Wallace. In Literature Circles, we discussed about him probably being their father. I think that he was watching them from afar all that time that he was gone. Those are reasons why I'm curious about the red eyed man.
ReplyDeleteI also really like this book until now,
ReplyDeletea lot of suspense is being showed up. I think that the man with red eyes is completely under the contro of IT. IT is kind of the controler of the whole planet. Actually, I think that everybody is inslaved by IT. But the book reserves a lot of surprises, and like Juliana said, I beleive in happy endings but right now I'm nopt quite sure it's going to end with a happy ending.
But until now, I really like this book.
I've been reading a little of the book today, and I was pretty impressed, because when someone mensioned the IT, I thought it would be some kind of big guy that had could control the planet Camazotz by himself because he is so strong or something like that. But actually, I just read through that part and guess what, IT has nothing to do with a regular person It is actually an it because it is undescribable, IT is a brain. A bodiless brain. Nothing more than a brain, nothing less than a brain. Iwas pretty shocked when I read through this part because it was nothing I imagined.
ReplyDeleteResponding to juliana,
ReplyDeleteI also predict a lot of suspense and puzzeles to solve, and i think that you are right about Calvin, a good-for-nothing character, completely useless, like he has nothing to do in the story. He is only acompanying Meg and Charles through the odyssey but he is the only friend of Meg. But also another thing that I forgot to mention and that shocked me, the great, the powerful Charles Wallace is possessed by the mighty IT. Without Charles Wallace, it's like, the story has no point of being made, I'm pretty sad right now. He is the brain of the story. The actual good person of the story. But now, he is kind of evil, just like the man with red eyes.
You know what, I read until page 170 and it's pretty weird. First of all, the father of Meg with Calvin have left camzotz because they tessered to a bizzar place. Second, the father left Charles Wallace on Camazotz. well of course there was a reason. The reason is theat is Charles tessered, he would have probably died because he is still under ITs control. But I wouldn't have left my son alone on a random planet. I mean how cruel is that, I would of at least tried to find a way to unpossessed Charles from IT. The third weird thing is that Meg Calvin and father have seen weird creatures with tentacule and no eyes. They said that they were going to take Meg. I went as far as that, the chapter ended just when they said that.
ReplyDeleteI did not like the last few chapters of the book because they sort of keep on saying the same thing throughout the last 4 chapters. For example when they meet this creature that is like an octopus they keep on saying that is was scary and they had no light.
ReplyDeleteIn response to max's comment. I also think that it was weird that her father left the planet without charles wallace. I also think that he shouuldn't have left the planet without him.
ReplyDeleteI personaly didn't likie the end of the book because i found it boring but overall i found A Wrinkle in Time a great book and i certainly think that Mrs. Kuhn should give this book to her nexts 7 graders.
ReplyDeleteIn reponse to max's comment. I think that the author of this book really knows what she is doing and how to make suspense in this book because it surely has a lot of suspense in it.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Max.
ReplyDeleteI was also impressed that IT was a brain. When I read about it's features and how it acted it really made me disgusted. Imagine this huge clump of goo with pink, worm-like huge pile! I was also impressed that it could control everything and wanted everyone to keep his rhythm in sync. Also, IT was huge so it was all Camazotz citizens with one brain. I was really shocked at that part.
Responding to Max.
ReplyDeleteI liked that part of the book! I agree with you that it was strange a father to leave their child behind in such wierd place like Camazotz with IT. But I really liked the part with Aunt Beast! I really liked the descriptions of this book, I could just feel like Meg in Aunt Beast's arms, and her motherly figure towards her. I wished I could feel what Meg felt when she was there. That's why I liked that part of the book.
I would totally recommend A Wrinkle in Time for the 7th graders to come! It is a book of mystery and suspense, with very juicy, descpritive parts and parts that you just want to know what is going to happen next. I loved the plot, the idea, in general. I think that the author could have complimented in the end because the climax just suddenly stops, and I was really shocked that it just ended there. This is why I would recommend this book!
ReplyDeleteI really thought that the part where Meg discovers that IT doesn't feel love connects to The Giver. I thought that because in Jonas's community they didn't think love was a feeling. There, love was a complex word that wasn't understood. Both Camazotz and the community share that because people have the same routine and never change it, if not, they will be killed/punished. That is why I think A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver connect to eachother.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the book itself was interesting. It was kind of weird in the middle because they went on different planets, and i never read books like that. In the book i mostly liked the middle, because they went on camazotz to find the father and Charles Wallace was captured by IT. There was alots of things happening. The beggining though had a lack of action because it was introducing all of the characters. And the end, I really wanted to talk about that. The thing is that the climax, i thought it was terrible, there was no actual fighting at the moment, the book itself ahd a lack of fighting which made me like it a bit less. The whole climax was based on love and only saying" I love you Charles, Oh yes, i love you so much," that was about what Meg said in the climax and nothing else happened. Also at the end of the book it does not talk about the Black Thing and IT. The book doesn't tell what happens to those two things. But this book, i would give it an 7.9/10. So it was all right.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Juliana,
ReplyDeleteI would also definitely reccomend this book for the next seventh graders. The book has a lot of suspense and action. Also i can bet that any of the sixth graders have read a book about going on other planets and about these creatures like Aunt Beast which are like aliens. Also nobody would think about IT being a brain except Madeleine Lengle. The bad guy of thestory is a brain. So yeah, i would definitely reccomend that book for the next seventh graders.
I also agree with THales,
ReplyDeletebecause the author isn't any kind of novice for making books like that. She knows how to create the suspense. At the end of each chapters, the next chapter is still talking about the same thing as the preceeding chapter. For example: On one of the chapters there is these aliens that come because Meg and Calvin and the father are on another planet, the chapter ends with the beasts saying " We want the girl," and then talks directly about that on the next chapter because the father says "No way,". It's the first sentence of the chapter. So the author really knows how to create suspense.
My favorite part of the book was when charles Wallace was possessed by IT and Meg saw her father for the first time. THis scene is great, well i thought it was great, because there is a lot of suspense and action. When Meg first sees her father, she is so happy, but she would scream or knock on the glass and her father would not give a response, so she didn't know what to do. then she took the spectacles that Mrs. Who gave her and she could pass through the column. She didn't see that where her father was it was all dark because she had the spectacles. But actually her father was blind in there because it was so dark. THen Charles Wallace came and there was kind of a fight. But i really liked this part.
ReplyDelete