◼︎ Chapter 9 / pages 159 - 169

— Questions —

  1. How does Charles Wallace usually respond when Meg gets hurt?

  2. Meg tries to tackle Charles Wallace a second time.

    • What happens this time?

  3. As Meg looks at her father, she sees changes in his appearance.

    • Note three or more changes she observed.

  4. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the fairy spirit Ariel is trapped in a “cloven pine.”

    • Look at the illustration of Ariel below.

    • What do you think a “cloven pine” is?

  5. Who put Ariel in the cloven pine?

    • Hint: Look at the top of page 163.

  6. Calvin says Charles Wallace is like Ariel (in the cloven pine).

    • How so?

  7. How is Meg’s father (Mr. Murry) like Ariel (in the cloven pine)?

  8. How did Meg get through the wall and into the column holding her father?

  9. How do we learn that Meg’s father cannot see?

  10. How does Mr. Murry get Meg out of the column?

— Vocabulary —

Google: word definition kids — then write the definition.

  1. imprisoned in a column

  2. “Why?” Charles asked placidly

  3. Mrs. Who’s spectacles

  4. a harsh command

  5. Charles Wallace’s menacing voice

  6. the feeling of complete reassurance

  7. She moved her hand brusquely

  8. the translucent column

  9. she felt the same awful clamminess

  10. an insolent voice

— A+ BONUS—

Meg has freed her father from his prison in the column.

Is Chapter 9, title “IT,” the Big Climax, after which the children will return home?

Explain why or why not.

• Ariel imprisoned in the cloven pine.