Saturday, April 21, 2018

Week 25- You know you're lucky when you get home 5 minutes before you left

I didn't really get talk about the ending of The Diabolic. Basically, it was about rights and a person's purpose. Kinda weird. Also, I don't like romance books, so... meh. Anyways, this week I started re-reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. I read this in 6th grade, but I don't remember much about it, so when I saw the movie a few weeks ago I wanted to revisit it. There's definitely some stuff that was changed in the movie, but I like both versions so far. One thing I really love is Mrs Which, because of the way she speaks. Everything is written wwithh doubblee letttterss, and it has a really neat effect. At first it seemed a little annoying, but it kind of helps show that she's not as solid or corporeal as the others, along with how she's never fully visible. It helps you remember that she's something very clearly not only human but not a physical creature as much as a voice and sense of being. Overall, it's a weird book, but it's on purpose, and it works. Also, I'm not sure if maybe the book was written in French and translated into English, or maybe written in English by a frenchwoman, but I think part of the "off" feeling I get is because of the language barrier, or maybe even because of how old the book is. Sometimes things aren't fully explained, and they seem almost like they're not real or not happening, and I think that's partially because Meg is an unreliable narrator who is very purposely out of the loop, and is the only character who doesn't understand the Mrs like Calvin and Charles Wallace, along with everything happening. This is also linked to her inabiloty to properly tesser, although this is better shown in the movie than it is in the book. One scene that stuck with me from the first time I read it, and wasn't in the movie, is when they tesser to a 2d planet. I'm not sure why, but that scene was really cool to me, and was something I remembered a lot, even though I forgot about most of the book's plot.
That's enough rambling from me, though. I'll let you know what happens next week.

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