Teresa
A very entertaining book for the young adult audience, or even adults who want a good little adventure. The characters Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins team up with some cosmic entities to help save Meg’s young brother Charles Wallace.
Charles Wallace is sick. How is this connected to cosmic entities that are fighting a war? The battle of good versus evil on a cosmic scale is touched on. This is combined with the theme of perception of reality is and how it impacts our relationships and understanding. The scale and the journey the characters make encompasses the macro-cosmos as well as the micro-cosmos. Many times this scale gets in our way of understanding what is happening and how circumstances and incidents affect us and those around us. The characters learn that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing and sometimes only focusing on having one, can lean toward some biases that can harm others.
This transitions into the theme of empathy and compassion. How can we feel empathy with others when the scale is so large or small that we cannot comprehend it? The characters find that empathy is important, especially when that empathy needs to be focused on one who is not related to yourself or even is not known to you at all. Sacrifice is brought up in connection with this. When and how does one make the decision that you need to let go in order to help another? When is someone else’s welfare more important that what you want out of life.
Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins, as well as their other companions, learn these lessons in A Wind in the Door. Readers can learn these lessons too.
A very entertaining book for the young adult audience, or even adults who want a good little adventure. The characters Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins team up with some cosmic entities to help save Meg’s young brother Charles Wallace.
Charles Wallace is sick. How is this connected to cosmic entities that are fighting a war? The battle of good versus evil on a cosmic scale is touched on. This is combined with the theme of perception of reality is and how it impacts our relationships and understanding. The scale and the journey the characters make encompasses the macro-cosmos as well as the micro-cosmos. Many times this scale gets in our way of understanding what is happening and how circumstances and incidents affect us and those around us. The characters learn that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing and sometimes only focusing on having one, can lean toward some biases that can harm others.
This transitions into the theme of empathy and compassion. How can we feel empathy with others when the scale is so large or small that we cannot comprehend it? The characters find that empathy is important, especially when that empathy needs to be focused on one who is not related to yourself or even is not known to you at all. Sacrifice is brought up in connection with this. When and how does one make the decision that you need to let go in order to help another? When is someone else’s welfare more important that what you want out of life.
Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins, as well as their other companions, learn these lessons in A Wind in the Door. Readers can learn these lessons too.