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Running head : Wrinkle in Time

Meg Murry in A Wrinkle in Time

Does She Have a Mental Health Dis ? In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L 'Engle (1962 , 14-year-old Margaret (Meg ) Murry finds herself in trouble and miserable . Her beloved father has disappeared , her five-year-old brother , Charles Wallace , is the object of ridicule , and she 's having enormous problems at school . Then , one dark and stormy night , she meets a woman ' with the odd name of Mrs . Whatsit , who seems to know more than she lets on and who

leads Meg , Charles Wallace , and a popular boy from Meg 's school Calvin , 14 , on a quest to find Meg 's father . This quest takes them to other planets and into great danger as they pass behind an evil presence called the Black Thing . The children and their extraterrestrial helpers , Mrs . Whatsit , Mrs . Who , and Mrs . Which , manage to rescue Mr Murry from a prison planet , but leave Charles Wallace behind during the attempt . Mr . Murry uses a technique called a tesseract ' in to jump from one planet to another to make their escape once the children free him from his prison cell . But because Mr . Murry is greatly inexperienced at tessering , which is how he ended up on a prison planet in the first place , Meg is almost killed . Once she recovers , she understands that only she can return to the prison planet by herself to rescue Charles Wallace because the two of them are very close . In...