A Wrinkle In Time

Madeleine L'engle tells the story of Meg Murray, protagonist, as she embarks on a quest to find her father after he went missing a long time ago.  Meg struggles with the fact that she is different from everyone else.  She sees that there is a definite solution to everything and when no one gives her a thorough answer, she struggles to accept.  For example, when she meets with Calvin, she asks her mother for an opinion of him, instead she does not get an answer that answers her question but and it upsets her.  Reading her like this, reminded me of Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart.  This is because both Meg and Okonkwo both share a desire that they expect from people.  For Meg it is a direct answer when she asks one.  For Okonkwo, it is a demonstration of strength and doing what is meant to be done.  While Okonkwo gets himself into more trouble when he does not get what he wants than Meg but both are not pleased when they don't get what is right.

Meg eventually learns though that not all knowledge can be known or learned and she finds a way to accept this.  Like me, I thought that there was a way to know everything, but then I learned that nobody likes a know it all.  It might not have gotten me sent to the principal's office like Meg but, I've taken to learning rather than to soak in information all at once.  Overall, Meg is a person in that she is unique her own ways and different from everybody else and while she may not have liked it at first, it is useful when she needs it the most.