A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- This is a quick book summary and analysis of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly. New Minute Book Reports are posted every week.
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This is a story about a girl named Meg Murry who is struggling in her school life and home life. She is teased for her looks, but also because her family is different.
Rumor has it that her father has ran off and that her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, is slow. Meg also lives with her mom, a scientist, and twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys.
One day, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin, a boy from school, explore a local haunted house. They are greeted by three women, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, each a little odder than the next.
The three women seem to know about Mr. Murry and so the children follow them. However, as they are walking through the forest, something strange happens to them. They travel by tesseract, an advanced form of traveling through space and time, to a distant planet.
At first, Meg is overwhelmed by the experience, but she grows to like the new planet, as its very beautiful. The children are told that Mr. Murry has been fighting The Black Thing, a large shadow-like being, and that they too must join the fight. The children agree and are taken to Camazotz, the home of IT, a dark and mysterious entity that craves control and power.
After arriving in Camazotz, the children encounter a community that is centered around routine and schedule. Events happen at a certain time and there is general sameness amongst the people.
The children eventually meet IT, which turns out to be a grotesque brain. IT mind-controls Charles Wallace, using him as its voice. Meg rescues her father from a glass prison and just as IT attempts to mind-control Calvin and Meg, Mr. Murry teleports them by tesseract to a distant planet.
On this planet, the group encounters a tentacle creature named Aunt Beast. There, Meg gains the courage to face IT alone.
Meg returns to Camazotz to get Charles Wallace back. She tries to fight IT with anger, but discovers that love is its greatest weakness.
And in the end, after defeating IT, all of them return home where Meg's father is reunited with his family.
First, this story enters an interesting genre within children's literature. Technically, it's primarily science fiction, dealing with time and space travel and beings from different planets. And yet, at the same time, it's about children dealing with issues that are relatable to a younger audience.
One of these issues is maturity and the ability to identify the weaknesses within oneself. Each of the children is told their weakness, yet their weaknesses still manage to create problems. In fact, the reason Charles Wallace becomes mind-controlled by IT is because of his weakness, pride. Even Meg uses her weakness, anger, against IT, but fails.
From this fight between Meg and IT, the story presents the conflict of love, or emotion, versus intellect. IT is literally a giant brain that shuns emotions and calculates and schedules the behavior of the Camazotz people to create a totalitarian society.
Everyone is the same and, therefore, there are no worries because all of the decisions are already made for the people.
Yet, Meg recognizes the emptiness of the situation. So while everything is taken care of from the perspective of the society as a whole, the people, as individuals, are not given the opportunity to celebrate the differences amongst themselves.
And it's here that the message of the story is conveyed. All of the characters, whether from Earth or beyond, are unique and interesting. Their characteristics and personalities are celebrated, not scorned. And it's these differences that make life worth living. In fact, it's good to be different.
Through Minute Book Reports, hopefully you can get the plot and a few relevant discussion points in just a couple of minutes.
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Thank you so much you Helped me alot because i only had an hour to read and i Was not going to finish and i saw your video and it Helped me understand the book and write a book report
+Pro Hero101 Glad the video helped. Hope you get a chance to read the book when you have more time. It's a great book.
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thank you so much I have this book report on the book and I didn't feel like reading the book so I just searched for audio books and that didn't work so I looked for a wrinkle in time and I saw yours and now I feel so much better because if I hadn't clicked this video I would've been in BIG trouble so know I will not because now I know what to look for when I need a wrinkle in time summary or notes and things like that so thank you so much for posting this video it made my hw so much easier for me to do my report TA!
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NotNeeded20XX I have 11 days left and I have not even started lol
What a great job you did. Your little drawings were so cute and your concise review of the story without giving away the plot points was well done.
OMG THANK YOU I start school tomorrow and I haven’t done my summer reading, I have to do reports on the books and I don’t feel like reading them, this was so helpful
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I already made a video about The Giver. You can search through the old Minute Book Report videos. It will also be listed under the Children's Literature playlist.
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thanks, this book helped me get an a on my test [i didn't read the book]
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The connections Meg makes and has with her family and friends are strong because of love, not anger/hate - nor popularity nor pride in one's own abilities, such as intelligence. The things which bond, build and heal wounds in relationships cannot be what tears down but what builds others up. Meg fails throughout the novel to measure up, and even at the end almost fails because she's giving in to the number one thing that makes "IT" - "IT." Hate. Anger. Malice. Wanting to tear something apart because it's tearing you apart. Or just hating something because you're not that. The darkness is NOT the light...so it can never comprehend it. It can try to copy it, as with the similar houses and families and routines implanted in the inhabitants heads by IT, but that is only taking away individuality and life as we know it. Their is no desire in anyone to do good. Only robotic muscle movement that tells us nothing of the characters of the individual people.
Now when Meg comes up against IT, she is being dragged into that mindset...it would be better to stop fighting. It would be better to be controlled by IT, because when we become obsessive about controlling every detail because of anger, fear and hate, we only add to IT's cause. However, when you realize what is important to life, it is love. Meg thinks of how much she loves her quirky smart little brother, Charles. She reacted out of anger in school, before, when people made fun of him. Now she reacted out of love and tried to get him to remember all their treasured times together. How much she cared for him. How she would do anything for him. How Mrs. Whatsit loved her. The warm embrace of the beast. Calvin's kiss. Her mother's touch. Her father's hugs. Their hot cups of chocolate. Love. She reminded herself and Charles about love. And IT had no hold over that.
The ideas explored in this child fantasy novel are akin to ideas understood after WWI & II, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, Middle East, etc. More war will not end war. Fighting fire with fire will only build up to a raging fire. Fighting hatred with hatred will only increase the fighting. Love fills the gap. Love heals all wounds. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love is patient and kind. Love does not demand its own way.
When the whole world is filled with darkness, only a pin prick of light is needed to shine out and make a difference.
Thanks this helped me save on not having to read for my book report
Thank you so much, i have a book report due in a few hours, im just going to write down the main points as my note cards and try to recap this video...wish me luck
being honest this might be one of the best books i read in college.
Ms. Aline Luthanburg. In college!?! I’m reading this in 6th grafw
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I’m reading the book in class!!!
It's a good book. Glad classes are still reading it in schools.
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I have a book report and this helped
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Just read the graphic novel
This is great but you forgot the happy medium segment
This will sum for my independent reading book
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I hade to annotate everything but had no idea thanks
You kind of got things wrong in the summary. Some of the settings are different, and the order that things happened aren't the same as in the book. I feel bad for all the people that just used this instead of reading the book because it'll be pretty obvious they didn't read it.
***** Thanks for the comment. Please let me know how you would summarize the story in under a couple of minutes. Thanks.
Minute Book Reports Well, there are two main things missing/mistaken. First, that scene with Mrs. Whatsit in the kitchen at the beginning of the book is pretty important. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin don't just happen across the haunted house and bump into three magic ladies who know their father; Charles Wallace and Meg both have interactions with Mrs. Whatsit before that, and are traveling specifically to the house to see her. The second thing is that the children just don't follow Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which into the forest right after seeing them at the abandoned house. They go to the Murry house first, and Calvin meets the Murry family. This is also really important because it gives more exposition on Calvin. Calvin and Meg go out to the Murry's garden to talk, then Charles Wallace finds them, and then they leave. They don't leave from a forest at all. The rest of the review was mostly fine. I understand that these are supposed to be minute reviews, but that doesn't make it okay to change the way things happen in the book so it fits in the time frame :/
Just finished reading the book, it’s much better than the movie!
Thanks great! Congrats on finishing the book. I haven't seen the movie, but I heard it's confusing.
Thanks for this. I have a test tomorrow about this book and it a grade but thanks for letting me cheat at last...
This is like a book report cheat code
Thank you so much me and my group could not understand
Anyone else have this at school and not read it so watch this?
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I READ THE BOOK BUT I couldn't find the resolution, and climax
Excuse me I want to ask how can u make these matchmen videos
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Thanks for the 100
I've seen both versions of the movie and read the book in middle school.I just don't get the hype.
Cab you do Cheaper by The Dozen
Can
can't hear anything from the music
love tis book
There's this m word you say in the review and you say it after you talk about aunt beast. It's like two words after. Please reply.thx
1:38 meg?
my work is Done
Thanks for helping me, I hate reading.
Didn't the girls farther get kidnapped?
I’m watching the beginning of this and I’m hoping they mention how long it has been sense meg has seen her father.
(Edit) well...... this sucks
5 YEARS
Can you please do the giver
No more school reading for me!
Turn down the background music we can barely hear you
This is the worst book I had to read at school. For a sides grader that book was to confusing.
Dude I'm in 5th grade and read and I totally under stand it.
56483893 os I understood it in 6th grade - just didn't really like it :/
@@hotrodjmanofficial448 how do you not like it so good
'IT' sounds like the mind flayer from dungeons and dragons.
I had to do a book report and this didn't help at ALLLL!!!!!
I'm sorry this video didn't help at all. Maybe next time you can read the book, make a video, and post it on RUclips. When you finish the video, please let me know. Thanks.
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I'm seriously interested to know, how didn't this help at ALLLL!!!!? What information did you need for your report that wasn't provided here? Were you expecting a template on how to format your report as well?
i read it and COMPletely forgot everything
Thank you so much I can cheat now
is this an anime adaptation
Is IT from pennywise?
I've heard that theory, but I'm not sure.
Do the book IT
I had recommended the book to someone else, but it just isn't my type of genre. Maybe one day I'll read more Stephen King, although I really like his book, On Writing.
sounds like futurama
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Lower the music volume damn
Sven Valentic 😂😂😂
The themes described in the video were poorly executed in this adaptation.
I mean it didn't help at all
livilla812 you didn't have to say that :)
@@sophiar8597 but he needed to
Thanks a lot man! The book is extremely bring with inhuman amounts of bullshit prose
Are the three women creatures
so... this is Scientology?
rhnx
The movie sucks and wasn't like the book
This book sucks