Madeleine L'Engle, a French author, uses a creative blend of science and fairy tale magic to construct the plot of her book A Wrinkle in Time. From start to finish Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin go through one adventure after another filled with animated fairytale tropes. This book has a pre-adolescent education model theme. The three are intertwined naturally and work well with the sci-fi feel of this incredible fantasy tale. The main character Meg Murry is the perfect innocent little girl turned into a hero. The beginning of the story features a young and constantly self-pitying 13-year-old Meg. Meg enters the first chapter emotionally immature with a self-centered "why does everything have to happen to me" attitude. Although her five-year-old younger brother Charles Wallace is said to be "not entirely bright", he is actually extremely advanced for his age and is Meg's primary caretaker. "How did Charles Wallace always know about her? How could he always... probe (and understand) with frightening precision"? The two are extraordinarily close and whenever life becomes too much for Meg, Charles Wallace tries to console her. All three, Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend, fourteen-year-old Calvin O'Keefe, fit the misunderstood average characteristics. it is found in many fairy tales and stories for teenagers. Although both Calvin and Charles Wallace are misunderstood by most, Charles Wallace at least has the support of a loving family, with concerned parents. Calvino, on the contrary, has no one who understands and appreciates him. "The funny part," he says, "is that I love them all and they don't give a damn about me... I care, but no one else cares." All three children, each with their own special individual qualities, strive to get along in their world. The boys don't seem to care much what others think, only Meg, with her many imperfections, flounders from day to day. Mixed in with this is a sort of orphaned childhood theme. Although none of the children are true orphans, this thought first came to me through Mr. Murry's absence and Meg's constant wish of "if only father were here", and then through Calvin's horribly neglectful family . He is, simply put, emotionally abandoned by parents who are too overwhelmed by other things to notice anything else. These details suggest a touch of realism: that in real life good is not always given and that life is not always fair.