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A Wrinkle in Time begins in the Murry home. It is at the edge of town near a wood. It is a shabby and average size house. Mrs. Murry has a lab in the back of the house. However, other than this I can infer it is an average house because the author did not describe this setting into detail. An important action that happens here is the beginning of the adventure of finding Mr. Murry. A strange looking woman comes to the house. She is wearing a big heavy raincoat, a large scarf, a drooping hat, and black rainboots. She stops by the house, empties her rainboots, and says something about a tesseract. At this remark Mrs. Murry goes pale in the face. This woman, known to them as Mrs. Whatsit by introduction, walks out of the house. She leaves the children, Meg and Charles, wondering why the word tesseract could get their mom so upset. The second setting is Uriel. This is a planet far from earth. It smells like spring and there are fields of flowers everywhere. There are also soaring mountains that you can not see the tops of no matter how far away you stand. It is a planet of beauty in a sort of dream land way. There is a pink aura …show more content…
This is a planet of perfection. The town Meg, Charles, and Calvin visit has a main road. This road leads to the center of town. Every house is the same color and shape, nothing is different. The office buildings are all uniform as well. Everyone in the town is consistent, doing the same thing at the same time everyday. There is a perfect rhythm throughout the town. Meg, Charles, Calvin, and Mr. Murry meet IT for the first time here. IT is a giant brain pulsing in rhythm. IT has control over everyone in the town. Charles has already been taken over by IT. Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Murry are there to get Charles back. As they try to fight IT they are getting pulled into IT’s mind control. Since this is happening Mr. Murry tessers them out of there leaving the brainwashed Charles

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