Similarities Between A Wrinkle In Time

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A Wrinkle in Time has a lot of differences and similarities in it. There’s a book that is written by Madeleine L’Engle that was published in 1962 and movie that was by Susan Silliday and was released in 2003. It will be talking about how Meg and Charles Wallace will be saving their Father, Mr.Murray who was captured by IT. IT is a big brain that lives on Cammozots who controls everyone there. Meg and Charles Wallace are now going to save their father and bring him back to earth. The first thing that will be compared is the similarities between the book and the movie. One, similarity is how Meg things if herself. She thinks of herself has a girl that is dumb but is actually intelligent and as an odd ball. Another similarity is the characters

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