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 | | It's also the story of a family with a deep trouble who nonetheless stay together, the story of a young girl who is just coming into adolescence with all the awkwardness and confusing feelings, and the story of a special little boy who is thought to be retarded by townspeople. |
 | | Wrinkle in Time has a lot of fertile subjects for discussions between parents and children about good, evil, how we treat each other, and the choices we make. |
 | | Certainly the 1962 publication date places A WRINKLE IN TIME at the height of the Cold War, but L'Engle is not merely anti-totalitarian; she is also speaking against mindless conformity by choice, and against unthinking reliance on purely Utopian and religious visions, all of which are presented as equally destructive to the human condition. |
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