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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter's narrative arc, then identify the central tension L'Engle is developing and evaluate whether she handles it honestly and effectively.
Discussion Questions
- Meg experiences her own worth as contingent — steadier in her father's remembered faith, monstrous in the mirror, calmer in the kitchen. What does the chapter implicitly claim about the relationship between selfhood and the regard of others, and how far should we trust that claim? Defend your reading from the text.
- L'Engle binds us to Meg's frightened perceptions and lets her misjudgments — of Mrs Whatsit, of herself — stand uncorrected within the chapter. What is gained and what is risked when a novel asks adult readers to inhabit an unreliable young consciousness, and why does L'Engle accept that risk here? Defend your reading with details from the chapter.
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