78 pages • 2 hours read
Madeleine L'EngleA Wrinkle In Time
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 7-9Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 7 Summary: “The Man with Red Eyes”
Inside CENTRAL Central Intelligence, the children find a sickly green room full of waiting people. They ask one man how they see whoever’s in charge. The man gets fearful and suspicious that they don’t know. The man reports them with the advice not to resist so things “will all be much easier for you” (118).
A wall disappears, revealing an enormous room full of machines. Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace cross the room and come face-to-face with a red-eyed man. Charles Wallace feels the man trying to get into his mind and struggles to resist. Atop his head, the man wears a light, “pulsing, throbbing, in steady rhythm” (120).
When the man speaks, his words go straight into their minds, and Charles Wallace realizes the man is not speaking—rather, being spoken through by IT. Mr. Murry is indeed on Camazotz, but if the children want any hope of finding him, Charles Wallace must turn himself over to IT. Feeling like there’s no other way, Charles Wallace complies and becomes a loyal servant of IT. Meg ends the chapter with the fearful realization that “Charles is gone” (132).
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