Meg respects her father and his work. Why do you believe she is initially angry with him? How does this change the more Meg understands her father’s choices and her role in the mission? Meg states, “It has to be me. It can’t be anyone else.” How does she come to accept or “choose” the task at hand? What does this mean about Meg’s understanding of what must be done to save Charles Wallace? Why must Meg go alone to Camazotz? How is her relationship with Charles Wallace important to her ability to free him?

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)