A wrinkle in timeMadeleine L’Engle
My brother has been telling me to read this book for years, I finally got around it. I expected a sci-fi story for young people and I found it very philosophical – well, make that spiritual. It was a classic story of good vs. evil but there was a spiritual element on it. The kids were fighting an on coming darkness that controls lives – it deprives people of freedom, forcing them to be the “same” to the extreme – same thoughts, body rhythm, and activities. The controllers (or IT) saw the arrangement as a nirvana – no crime, no sickness, no poverty. One of the children, Meg, fought the darkness with love with the support of beings from other planets/dimensions who believe in good – in the light and in God.
A Wrinkle in Time reminded me of Sci-Fi books where religion and belief in God were central such as Orson Scott Card in his Memory of Earth series and Stephen King’s the Stand. It was amazing that L’Engle wrote the philosophical conflict for young people. The book also implied that “conformity” is an instrument of evil – the Borg of Star Trek also embodied this point of view. We can see this idea in a lot of books and films but isn’t it funny that our society encourages individuals to conform and frowns upon anyone different?
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