I've been going back to the Wrinkle in Time books, a bit of nostalgiacide there because I remembered them as deeper than they are. But that's not what I came here to tell you about.
The best thing about the books is that in each of them someone is humanized who was dehumanized before. In that sense the first book is the weakest because it is only the people we expect, and a few monsters. But in the second book it is the elementary school principal and in the third it is her mother in law. Unloveable characters who do not understand or like our protagonist, but they become loveable and important. I think that's a valuable and beautiful theme almost never seen in fiction and kind of provides the walking the walk proof of the larger themes of universal God like love.
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