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Characters: Meg- A high-school-er that appears peculiar and awkward to others.

Charles Wallace- Charles is a young first grader, who is a brilliant child and can comprehend more than anyone at his age, he can sense human emotions with pinpoint accuracy, and can read other people's thoughts. He is having trouble adapting to school, and all of the bullies.

Calvin- A bright senior that is very friendly towards meg and her family.

Dr.Louise- Dr.Louise is a colleague of Mrs.Murry who often visits her and converses on several topics with the children.

Blajeny- A teacher who is teaching Meg, Calvin, Charles and Proginoskes.

Progenoskes- Progenoskes is a cheribum that is a student of Blajeny.

Sandy- Sandy is Dennys identical twin, and both are younger siblings of Meg, and say they will become successful businessmen who will support the rest of the family in a way they are not accustomed. They plan on being the normal side of the family and have already identified themselves as the normal ones.

Dennys- Dennys is Sandy identical twin, and both are younger siblings of Meg, and say they will become successful businessmen who will support the rest of the family in a way they are not accustomed. They plan on being the normal side of the family and have already identified themselves as the normal ones.

Sporos- Sporos is an irritated farandola that is, like Proginoskes, offended and taken aback when he finds out that he is to be taught with earthlings, and thinks of himself superior to almost everyone in the group except Blajeny and Louise. This is obvious due to his complaining and constant pessimism.

Chapter Three

The Man in the Night

This chapter begins with a booming voice crying out that the dragons will not hurt Meg & co. Meg & co. soon realize that the "dragons" are just a cheribum, named Proginoskes. The man in the night is Blajeny, who will teach Meg & co., and Proginoskes. The reason they are being taught is to reinforce how they will save Charles Wallace. After a long conversation (holding much irrelevant but interesting content) Blajeny starts to give assignments to the pupils, telling them that they will face many challenges and will be doing a lot of traveling, Meg and Proginoskes are to pass three tests, which will happen over time, Charles is to adapt to his school-life, and Calvin is to wait patiently, as he is not ready to carry out his assignment quite yet.

Chapter Four

Proginoskes

This chapter begins with Meg waking up, wondering if her strange dream was a part of reality...or if it was a dream at all, which she discovers was not. She wakes up an hour early and visits Proginoskes, and they begin to ponder the possibilities of their first task. Meg discovers that just because Proginoskes is not human does not mean she is brilliant beyond limits. Then, Meg tells Proginoskes about the Mr.Jenkens episode, and Proginoskes says that the bird Mr.Jenkens was an Echthroi, and she shows Meg what Echthroi do. Echthroi cover up stars and destroy them into nothingness. Meg can't stand this, and imagines a dinner table conversation, and later must recall the equation her father is writing on the tablecloth, with complicated Greek characters and exponents. After this dream of the conversation, Meg begins to learn how to communicate with cherubims by kything. Using Father's equation Meg and Proginoskes figure out that inside the equation, Echthroi are invovled within the greek characters, and the echthroi are un-naming the planets. The chapter ends with a foreshadowing of Sandy wondering what will happen today, and dennys replying the usual "Nothing".

Chapter Five

The First Test

This chapter begins with Meg and Proginoskes talking about the task, and realize it is to name Mr.Jenkens... then three Mr.Jenkens walk out-two copies and one real one. Then the three of them argue and argue, and constantly retort and make comebacks on each other trying to convince Meg that they are the real ones, number two suggesting that Charles should get a special tutor, and number three interrupting and acting annoyed by Meg and Charles, with number one also acting annoyed. Meg is told by Proginoskes to imagine herself, and what one good quality of Mr.Jenkens was... Meg finds these difficult to answer...but soon later Charles and Louise the Larger walk out of the building... adding a unique twist...and cliffhanger to the end of the chapter!

Chapter Six

The Real Mr.Jenkens

This chapter picks up right where the other one left off. Charles Wallace confronts the Jenkins trio, and complains about them. Then meg asks for Louise, but then realizes that Louise couldn't help anyway. Meg interrogates each Mr.Jenkins and afterwords does not know what to do. Proginoskes calms her down, and they begin to kythe, which Meg finds extremely difficult. After a little bit, she recalls a story Calvin told her regarding his best pair of shoes that were given to him by Mr.jenkins because his family could not afford them. Comprehension suddenly flows over Meg and she eliminates Jenkens three and two, and names number one, and then he faints. There are several vocabulary terms from this chapter in the section below.

Chapter Seven

Metron Ariston

This chapter begins with Mr.Jenkens waking up and not believing what he is seeing. Then there is some irrelevant discussion, and the group travels to the star watching rock. Then they look at Metron Ariston in the sky and are told that Metron Ariston can manipulate sizes of objects, etc. Then, the group has a lesson and before are introduced to Sporos, the irritable farandola. They are asked to imagine humans as hosts to mitochondria, and planets as hosts to humans(is this a connection to Mrs.whatsit at all). They also have a lesson where they are to imagine it being daytime, though it is night, and Sporos talks of planets communicating to each other. At the end of the chapter, the class realizes that they will travel inside Charles Wallace. This chapter introduces a new character, Sporos, the farandola, and has featured quite a few new vocabulary words as well.

Chapter Eight

Journey Into the Interior

In this chapter, Meg realizes that the party will have to travel inside Charles Wallace (//hence the name Journey Into the Interior//). The class learns that they will travel to Yadah, one of Charles's mitochondria. This is were Sporos was born. Before traveling there they witness the birth of a star, but are quickly frightened by being brushed by an echthros. Then, they travel to Yadah and Meg finds it very frightening. Proginoskes must calm her down, and the two are to find out the second task which is to help Sporos deepen. First, Meg must kythe with Mr.Jenkens and the others. when Meg only begins to communicate with Calvin, she is starting to be xed, ending the chapter with suspense. The reader may wonder in this chapter why Proginoskes is even in the same class as Meg, because Progo hasn't been challenged and has only calmed Meg down, but soon we shall see what Progo will learn, and I think it has to do with something about the human spirit.

Chapter Nine

Farandolae and Mitochondria

This chapter was very short but held important information that is vital to the story. This chapter explained about Meg's recovery from being Xed, by having farandola sacrifice their lives for her, and Progo and Calvin send comforting thoughts. Meg is instructed to kythe with Mr.jenkens again, and reluctantly begins to do so. First, she sees a glimpse of what's going on outside Charles's body, and sees Sandy and Dennys talking about their concern for their brother. Then when Meg begins to kythe she holds out her hand to Mr.Jenkens. Another side of the theme of this book is added, it is that everyone is different and special in their own way.

Chapter Ten

Yadah

This chapter had little suspense and was mainly about Meg teaching Mr.Jenkens about kything and about farnadolae and mitochondria. Mr.Jenkens is a sceptic and does not believe that farae or trees can talk to each other. However, Calvin kyhtes to Meg a picture of the //Wall Street Journal//, because Calvin knows that Mr.Jenkens reads it as well. Then, Calvin kyhtes to Meg about one of his science projects, about plants, and how a scientist experimented and experimented and found that when he burned off one leaf from plant, it reacted. Calvin found that when he cared for one plant, comforting and loving it, it grew larger than others. Mr.Jenkens is then able to "loosen up" and become a little less skeptical. A plant also could hear a plane from miles away.. but it is a mystery how. Distance does not exist for plants. if the plants don't grow, the echthroi will get to them. Sporos and Progo have a skirmish, and Sporos still says that the humans are slow. Then the group is told that the second test is to name Sporos after he deepens. Then Mr.Jenkens wonders why one kid matters so much, and he is told that if Charles doesn't there could be a huge impact, and Meg says this with a large rhyme/saying at the end, then Mr.Jenkens freaks out.

Chapter Eleven

Sporos

Being the second last chapter of the book, and answers remaining elusive from the previous chapters, chapter eleven explains a lot about many story components of this book. This chapter begins with the Song of the Universe singing to the group, explaining what it is and what it does. The song of the Universe does not contribute to any further conversation but is an essential story element in this chapter, as readers can infer later on about what farandolae are and why Charles Wallace's farandolae are being attacked, creating a link from science to the naming, echthroi, etc. This is just like the Greek characters in the father's equation, three of the characters create echthroi, which are the evil beings of the universe. The reader may be confused how math and science can possibly connect with things that are //almost// in a way like religon. It is because the song of life is sung in harmony by fara and contribute to keeping people alive, named. Of course, the fara are housed inside the mitochondria, and that is how there is a connection. Next, the group realizes that Yadah is in grave danger, and the group begins to watch Sporos deepen with the other farandolae. However, soon the echthroi begin to start messing with the deepening and try to convince Sporos and the others to destroy the fara and join the echthroi. The echthtroi win sporos over and he begins to terrorize the fara. The group tries to kythe and communicate with him and convince him not to. Sporos is now undecided. Then soon later Sporos joins the wild farandolae and they dance quickly. Meg and Proginoskes enter the big "vacuum of anguish" where Meg begins to feel hopeless, and decides her destiny is to sacrifice herself for a dying fara... but luckilyMr.Jenkens saves her, and Sporos is meanwhile convinced to deepen. I think part of the reason is because Calvin went just to be with Sporos showing him he cared and he didn't want Sporos to become nothingness. Then Mr.Jenkens becomes trapped, revealing the third test, and a cliffhanger for the last chapter.

Chapter Twelve

A Wind in the Door

In this final chapter, Meg finds out what the third task is. There's not too much to summarize, but this chapter was action-packed and nicely tied up the book. Meg had to rescue Mr.Jenkens from the echthroi... however, he is stuck inside them. So, Meg decides to go inside them as well. she is stricken with the sharp pain by the echthroi and is saved by Proginoskes... xing himself. Meg is sad, but carries on the assignment and names the echthroi. Then the group remaining travel to Meg's house and go to the rock,

Vocabulary- Below is the glossary for any difficult words you may encounter while reading.

fissure- a split

theta- the rate of the decline of an option as time goes on, the eighth letter in the greek alphabet

epsilon- mathematically indicates that a quantity is near zero, the fifth letter of the greek alphabet

chi- the twenty-second letter in the greek alphabet

contumacious- disobedient,perverse, rebellious

farce- a foolish act of mockery

sinuous- winding, turning, curving motions, devious, or indirect

simultaneously- at the same time

schizophrenia- a severe mental disorder

postulatum- like postulate, something self evident needing no proof

Comments: //I will define vocabulary words that I have never seen before or larger words that definitions' I know.// -Joseph