The Black Thing

Meg suddenly finds herself alone in complete darkness. She has no idea what is happening to her. She seems to have vanished into nothingness. She is lost in a void. Then she hears Charles Wallace saying that they have had quite a trip. Calvin reappears too. Meg finds herself in a sunlit field, where everything is golden with light. There is an atmosphere of peace and joy. Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which arrive. Mrs. Who tells them they are on Uriel, the third planet of the star Malak in the spiral nebula Messier 101. Mrs. Whatsit says that they "tessered," or "wrinkled" to get there. They are on the way to helping Meg's father, but they have ... Showed first 120 words of 552 Size (words) ...

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They travel down again, in silence. When they return to the field, Meg asks Mrs. Which whether the dark Thing is what her father is fighting.

Analysis

This chapter develops the cosmology that underlies the novel, in which the entire universe is a battleground for good versus evil. The good is represented in this chapter by the creatures on Uriel. The Christian references are hard to miss. Uriel is the name of one of the archangels, and the music created by the great winged creatures is equivalent in meaning to the words from the Old Testament prophet Isaiah in praise of God's creation. The Black Thing is the equivalent ...Essay still continues 100 more words...