kryptonitemonkey | Return to old Brazil I will

I reread A Wrinkle in Time last night. It was still a decent read, but a few things definitely grated on me in ways they didn't used to. It's so funny how I look at the vocabularies of these very young children and think it's really not realistic. The irony is that I was a rather intelligent child and had an extensive vocabulary at their ages too. Though maybe not quite so much as they do, especially not the 5 year old... One of my favorite books growing up was Ender's Game, and part of that was that it treated children, at least the bright ones, as intelligent and able to make rational decisions. Even knowing how bright I was, I go, really? Which is just foolish of me. Still, the vocabulary these kids possess is a bit of a stretch. Hell, half the people I know still don't know some of the words...

Also, I don't recall how I reacted back then, but Meg's constant mood swings and complete lack of restraint or patience bugs me now. I'm like, chill, girl. And of course, the way that L'Engle makes all the darkness infecting the universe seem like this great battle between celestial beings, including quite a lot of scripture quoted, only to turn out to be just an evil, hypnotic brain? The hell? Also, that she lumped Jesus in with the likes of like, mathematicians and artists and junk as light-bearers, that was a bit odd to me. Especially when she quotes the Bible so often. Odd that.