History Main / AWrinkleInTime

* StepfordSuburbia

* ShesAManInJapan: The Happy Medium is played man who claims he's "beyond gender" in TheFilmOfTheBook, even though she's clearly a woman in the book.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: '''And how.''' The Man With Red Eyes is a soulless monster right at the bottom of the UncannyValley, as befitting IT'S enforcer.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: '''And how.''' The Man With the Red Eyes is a soulless monster, as befitting IT'S enforcer.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Camazotz comes across as a combination of the worst points of both ColdWar superpowers: one part 1950's America, one part Stalinist Russia, all parts bad.
* TheDragon: The Man with the Red Eyes.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: ''And how.''

* RedEyesTakeWarning

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Dr. Wallace has been missing since Charles Wallace was a baby; at least four years. However, being trapped on a crazy, ultra-controlling planet with no way to get home or communicate with your family is a totally plausible reason.

The first book in the Time Quartet series by MadeleineLEngle, ''A Wrinkle in Time'' opens with the well-honored line "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night]]" and the appearance of a stranger at the Murry household. The stranger, who calls herself Mrs Whatsit, turns out to be much more than the dotty old lady she initially comes across as. Soon, Meg Murry, her younger and precocious brother Charles Wallace, and her schoolmate Calvin find themselves on an interplanetary and interdimensional journey with Mrs Whatsit and her equally odd buddies Mrs Who and Mrs Which to rescue Meg's missing father. To tell more would spoil your enjoyment of this unusual and fantastic (in more than one way) book.

* [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Big Sister]]: Meg is very protective of Charles Wallace.

* NamesTheSame: Camazotz is the name of a real life bat-god. This name is also used in Kenneth Oppel's ''{{Silverwing}}'' series.

* StarfishAliens: The people of Ixchel. They also have {{Eyeless Face}}s. But are good.

The first book in the Time Quartet series by MadeleineLEngle, ''A Wrinkle in Time'' opens with the well-honored line "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night]]" and the appearance of a stranger at the Murray household. The stranger, who calls herself Mrs Whatsit, turns out to be much more than the dotty old lady she initially comes across as. Soon, Meg Murray, her younger and precocious brother Charles Wallace, and her schoolmate Calvin find themselves on an interplanetary and interdimensional journey with Mrs Whatsit and her equally odd buddies Mrs Who and Mrs Which to rescue Meg's missing father. To tell more would spoil your enjoyment of this unusual and fantastic (in more than one way) book.

The further adventures of the Murrays and, especially, Meg are detailed in the sequels: ''AWindInTheDoor'', ''ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet'' and ''ManyWaters,'' followed by a series of books centered around [[spoiler: Meg and Calvin's daughter Poly.]]

* BlackSheep: Calvin, in his family. The twins, Sandy and Dennys, in the Murray family, to a lesser extent. They're normal in a family of misfit intellectuals.

* PunctuationShaker: An odd inversion: Meg's mother is "Mrs. Murray" but the witches are "Mrs Whatsit" and so forth. I.e., the witches don't have a period at the end of their "Mrs". What this ''means'' is up in the air...

* PunctuationShaker: An odd inversion: Meg's mother is "Mrs. Murry" but the witches are "Mrs Whatsit" and so forth. I.e., the witches don't have a period at the end of their "Mrs". What this ''means'' is up in the air...

The first book in the Time Quartet series by MadeleineLEngle, ''A Wrinkle in Time'' opens with the well-honored line "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night]]" and the appearance of a stranger at the Murry household. The stranger, who calls herself Mrs Whatsit, turns out to be much more than the dotty old lady she initially comes across as. Soon, Meg Murry, her younger and precocious brother Charles Wallace, and her schoolmate Calvin find themselves on an interplanetary and interdimensional journey with Mrs Whatsit and her equally odd buddies Mrs Who and Mrs Which to rescue Meg's missing father. To tell more would spoil your enjoyment of this unusual and fantastic (in more than one way) book.

The further adventures of the Murrys and, especially, Meg are detailed in the sequels: ''AWindInTheDoor'', ''ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet'' and ''ManyWaters,'' followed by a series of books centered around [[spoiler: Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly.]]

* TheLinus: Charles Wallace.

* GeniusBreedingAct: Meg's parents are both doctors; her father is a physicist, while her mother is a microbiologist.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: "''And the light shineth forth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.''"
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi have a horrible stench, which only manifests when they aren't disguising themselves.

* FasterThanLightTravel: The tesseract.

* AnotherDimension: The fifth dimension, to be exact. And there's an amusing near-stop in the second dimension.

* NamesTheSame: Camazotz is the name of a real life bat-god. This name is also used in Kenneth Oppel's ''Silverwing'' series.