![]() As they continue to walk through the neighborhood, Charles Wallace sees one little boy drop his ball. All their movements are coordinated and the same. Meg notices that there is something strange about the way the children are playing, and then realizes that they are all jumping rope and playing with balls in an exact rhythm. All the houses are the same and all the children playing outside are wearing similar clothes. Everything in the town looks very similar. When they disappear the children begin to walk into the nearby town. They tell Charles Wallace that things will be especially dangerous for him, that they should never separate and that he should not think that he knows everything. Who gives Meg her spectacles and tells her to only use them as a last resort. As they leave, they give them gifts: Calvin the gift of communicating with others, Meg the gift of her faults, and Charles Wallace the gift of his childhood. The three women tell the children that they have to leave them now and that they will no longer contact them. The planet is very similar to earth with the same kind of trees and weather. The three women transport the children off their current planet to the planet of Camazotz. Whatsit tells her that she will need that anger to fuel her search. ![]() This angers Meg and she stamps her foot and is determined to find her father. Calvin’s mother is disheveled and yelling at the other O’Keefe children while Meg’s mother is writing a sad letter to Meg’s father. ![]() The Medium begins falling asleep, worn out by the work, but shows Calvin and Meg their mothers in the crystal ball before they go. Whatsit then informs them that she herself had once been a star and had done battle with the Dark Thing, which is why she has fallen into her current form. The star won, but lost its life in the process. Whatsit tells them that it was a star doing battle with the Dark Thing. When it touched the darkness, the light disappeared, and the Medium assures them that “it can be overcome.” When Charles Wallace asks what is happening, Mrs. ![]() The Happy Medium implores the children to look into her crystal ball again, and this time they again see the Dark Thing, but also a bright light that touched the darkness. ![]()
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