A Wrinkle in Time
Why do you think Mrs. Which takes the children to visit the medium on the way to their destination?
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg that they have come to see the Happy Medium and that she will show them their own planet. In the Medium’s vision of the earth, the children see the Dark Thing they saw earlier. This Dark Thing provides an explanation for why the earth suffers under the burden of so much hardship and evil.
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