The novel begins on a "dark and stormy night." with Meg Murry sitting in her attic bedroom contemplating the events of the. Day. She is feeling sore because she was dropped to the lowest section in, her grade teased by other girls in, her class. And drawn into a fight when another boy made disparaging remarks about her youngest brother.As she sits in the attic she can 't help but think about her missing Father and the "smugly vicious gossip that surrounds." His disappearance. She looks at herself in the mirror takes in, her glasses and braces on, her teeth and feels very alone. On the stormy night of the hurricane.
Downstairs she hears her dog Fortinbras,,,Barking and worries that its the "Tramp." she had heard about that has been roaming, the town stealing from the townspeople.? She wanders around, the house suffers a bruise from bumping into a ping-pong table visits her, sleeping, twin brothers Dennys. And Sandy before finding, her youngest brother Charles Wallace, sitting at the kitchen table drinking milk and eating jam. And bread.Charles Wallace tells her that he had been expecting her and Meg wonders how he could "always know about her and how he." Could probe her and her mother 's mind with "frightening accuracy."
Meg relates how many people assume that Charles Wallace. Was dumb or, he, slow because hadn 't started speaking until he was four years old.Meg 's father had told her that both she and Charles Wallace were special and that, their development would proceed at a. Different pace than others. When Charles Wallace did begin to speak he used, full sentences and had a very extensive, vocabulary. Their mother joins the two children in the kitchen and Charles Wallace makes some cocoa and sandwiches for them.
, Murry Mrs.Who Meg describes as "a scientist and a beauty," looks at her bruised face from the fight and Meg tells her about how badly. She 'd hurt the boy she got in a fight with. Meg complains that "people." "' always think it s my fault." and that she was full. " Of bad feelings. "She wishes she could be more like her normal twin brothers and not such an" oddball. "Or so" repulsive-looking. "
.Charles Wallace tries to make her feel better and tells her that he is going to talk to Mrs. Whatsit about her. He tells. His mother and sister that she lives in an old house in the woods that the kids won 't go near because they think it' haunted, s. As the wind shakes, the house Fortinbras stands up and starts growling at the door to Mrs. Murry 's laboratory. Meg is sure. It 's the, "Tramp"But when Mrs. Murry checks who the intruder is she returns, with Mrs. Whatsit dressed in several scarves of assorted." Colors. "" 'and a man s felt hat. "On her head.
Mrs. Whatsit tells the family that she had gotten" blown off course and decided. " To stop by and rest before proceeding. She says she knew it was Charles Wallace 's house "by the smell." While fixing, Mrs. Whatsit, a sandwichMeg contemplates that Mrs. Whatsit is probably the tramp and that she isn 't somebody Charles Wallace ought to be friends. With.
Abruptly Charles Wallace, asks Mrs. Whatsit why she took the sheets (the crime the tramp had been charged with and.) She tells it was because she "needed them." and that she 's "used them." so they can' t be returned. Meg thinks to herself that. Mrs.Whatsit is, no good and Mrs. Whatsit then tells Charles Wallace to tell his sister that "I 'm all right and that her intentions." " Are good. "When Mrs. Whatsit asks for help getting her, boots off Mrs. Murry helps but they all take a tumble during the. Effort and water spills all over the floor. Mrs. Whatsit not physically, hurt says that, she has nonetheless sprained her. Dignity.
.After finishing, her sandwich Mrs. Whatsit gets up to leave. While she is putting on her boots she looks at Mrs. Murry. And tells here that "there is such a thing as a Tesseract." Mrs. Murry, is shocked since she hadn 't said anything. To, herself. Mrs. Murry wonders, "How could she have known?"
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