The novel begins on a “dark and stormy night” with Meg Murry sitting in her attic bedroom contemplating the events of the day. She is feeling sore because she was dropped to the lowest section in her grade, teased by other girls in her class, and drawn into a fight when another boy made disparaging remarks about her youngest brother. As she sits in the attic she can’t help but think about her missing Father and the “smugly vicious gossip” that surrounds his disappearance. She looks at herself in the mirror, takes in her glasses and braces on her teeth, and feels very alone on the stormy night of the hurricane.
Downstairs, she hears her dog, Fortinbras, barking and worries that its the “tramp” she had heard about that has been roaming the town, stealing from the townspeople. She wanders around the house, suffers a bruise from bumping into a ping-pong table, visits her sleeping twin brothers, Dennys and Sandy, before finding her youngest brother, Charles Wallace sitting at the kitchen table drinking milk and eating jam and bread. Charles Wallace tells her that he had been expecting her and Meg wonders how he could “always know about her” and how he could probe her and her mother’s mind with “frightening accuracy.”
The novel begins on a “dark and stormy night” with Meg Murry sitting in her attic bedroom contemplating the events of the day. She is feeling sore because she was dropped to the lowest section in her grade, teased by other girls in her class, and drawn into a fight when another boy made disparaging remarks about her youngest brother. As she sits in the attic she can’t help but think about her missing Father and the “smugly vicious gossip” that surrounds his disappearance. She looks at herself in the mirror, takes in her glasses and braces on her teeth, and feels very alone on the stormy night of the hurricane.Downstairs, she hears her dog, Fortinbras, barking and worries that its the “tramp” she had heard about that has been roaming the town, stealing from the townspeople. She wanders around the house, suffers a bruise from bumping into a ping-pong table, visits her sleeping twin brothers, Dennys and Sandy, before finding her youngest brother, Charles Wallace sitting at the kitchen table drinking milk and eating jam and bread. Charles Wallace tells her that he had been expecting her and Meg wonders how he could “always know about her” and how he could probe her and her mother’s mind with “frightening accuracy.”
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