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hannhann
hannhann
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What kind of scientist was Meg's father?

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Posted by hannhann on Friday February 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM and tagged with a wrinkle in time, chapter 2, characters, madeleine lengle, meg, megs father, mr jenkins, mr murry, mrs whatsit, mrs who, principal, scientist, tesseract.

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  1. ms-charleston-yawp
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    Meg's father is a physicist by trade.  Meg reveals this information in the second chapter of the novel as she struggles through the school day after the midnight visit from Mrs. Whatsit.    Mr. Jenkins, the school principal, has asked Meg if everything is okay at home and whether she had heard from her father lately (after his absence for more than a year).  Meg admits that "behind Mr. Jenkins' surface concern was a gleam of avid curiosity" (26).  Finally, Mr. Jenkins asks, "Just what was your father's line of business? . . . Some kind of scientist, wasn't he?"  Meg then bares her teeth as she replies, "He is a physicist" (26).  This shows that Meg believes her father to still be alive and foreshadows the later revelation about what a "tesseract" truly is.  It is only a physicist who would deal in that kind of time anomaly.

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    Posted by ms-charleston-yawp on Friday February 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM