Summary Of Madeleine L Engle's Writing Style

Each author has their own unique way of writing. They use different tools to express their point of view. Madeleine L’Engle, award winning author, uses imagery and tone, mainly to express her point view. She hooks her readers with adventure stories and characters that are brought to life with attention grabbing sentences. A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door is a sci-fi, adventurous story with 20 different universes and characters that you cannot even imagine! She uses her writing style to intrigue you and pulls you into the current adventure.
Imagery is the main thing that makes her stories pop out. Sometimes it is almost like you are in the story. Like you are on the adventure with the character. An example would be, “The trees were lashed into a violent frenzy. Meg screamed out and clutched at Calvin”...”Did a shadow fall across the moon, or did it simply go out?”(56). This specific quote was narrated by L’Engle herself. She uses this description to get you interested. To pull you into the book. It also sets the tone for the specific chapter, a dark tone. This leads us to her second unique way of writing, tone.
This makes the plot more appealing. An example of this would be when Charles Wallace, a main character of the book, says, “She’s like a little bird, twittering away, and all the time you know that sharp mind of hers is thinking on another level.“(7). This specific piece of evidence uses tone in a unique way, because this character sounds a tad bit irritated, but is amazed at the same time, it is a very explicit quote. As this quote is not as hard to notice the tone, “Mrs.Murry said in a low voice ‘My discoveries are not very pleasant“(97). As Mrs.Murry said this, another main character in the book, she sounded annoyed which was easier to spot, then the first quote. This is another one of the qualities of this book that makes it intriguing and makes it