individuality

If a person were to simply read the passage given to us there would be no doubt in anybodies mind that love is a common element that keeps this family together. No matter the distance Mr. Murray was his family never gave up on him, never once did they lose faith that he would come home. They knew he would never up and leave them like all the rumors had said he did. It was because of this love that helped bring him back in the first place.

This book focuses on good vs. evil. There are many different things that make up what is good and what is evil. It is obvious that love is a key element in what makes up good, another element is individuality. Although love is incredibly important element individuality is just as important. Each person is entitled to their own beliefs and ways of going about life. One of the many evils we have today is the fear of being different and being our own person. Throughout the story Meg struggles with being different, in the beginning when she says “I hate being the oddball…It’s hard on Sandy and Dennys too. I don’t know if they’re really like everyone else or if they’re just able to pretend they are. I try to pretend, but it isn’t any help.” (14) She later on finds out that conformity is far from a good thing when looking at Camazotz. This is an evil that we still have today being that everybody wants to be cool and wear the right clothes and talk a certain way. Somewhere along the lines we are going to lose out on what is important about our own personalities and traits. This is something that is worth fighting for because if you lose everything that makes you an individual you are going to find yourself having no feelings to yourself. The love that you at one point had for a person or thing is no longer there, because you are too busy conforming to what everyone else loves and thinks. When dealing with individuality and love I fully support L’Engle’s conception of the good and the evils. There are many things in the book that make such a great point of things that are good and bad in the lives of not only the characters in the book, but that can be applied to our lives.