A Wrinkle in Time

This week I decided to read a Wrinkle in Time. I remember having to read this book for seventh grade English. I have never had a problem reading it, for it really is a good book. I'm sure many of you have read it so you probably know the plot, but in case you forgot here it is. Basically it is a sciencey futuristic book about a girl named Meg who doesn't really fit in. However her troubles seem to be drowned out as she is taken on a journey along with her brother Charles and her friend Calvin. They attempt to rescue their father by traveling through a wrinkle in time in order to get to the planet he is held captive on. I won't spoil the end if you haven't read it, but I do want to discuss the planet they travel to called, Camazotz. It is like the perfect town, with everything synchronized and in order. I personally think that it would drive me crazy to be there or have to live like that. I would be frightened if I was Meg. The place gives me a Stepford Wives feel to it. Everything is blunt, cut and dry. There is no creativity, art, or imagination. I am a very artsy kind of person and to live in a world without it, I just don't see how anything could improve. I mean look at all the imagination in the world and the things that were innovated because of it. We would be no where near the advanced nature that we are now. Everything would have been at a standstill and we would probably all be in the periphery stage of world systems. I think that is what L'Engle is trying to say, in that you need art and creativity in order to prosper, and a world without that is no good.