When Mrs. Whatsit first told Meg that she needed her anger, I didn't really understand what she was saying. Now, I think Mrs. Whatsit was saying that if used for the right cause, anger can occasionally be a good emotion. Meg's anger towards "It" for taking her father, trying to destroy her planet, and hypnotizing her brother Charles Wallace is very strong.
When Meg faces "It," that anger helps her stay strong, and she uses her anger as a positive emotion. For example, Meg uses her anger on page 178, to help her stay strong against "It". She says that she thought, "that is only she had a dissecting knife she would slash at It, cutting ruthlessly through cerebrum, cerebellum." On page 159, Meg directly says that her anger helped her overcome "her pain and fear."
In the case of Meg versus "It," Meg's anger, (although sometimes very destructive and violent as shown in the quote from page 178,) is a positive emotion, but obviously, anger can be very, very negative. Anger can be used to motivate people and make them work hard for a cause they believe in. Anger can also be used in a catastrophic, damaging, and brutal way. Osama bin Laden would be an example of someone who lets their anger out using those methods.
In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg uses her anger in a good and motivating way, and although her anger helps her very much, I think that love is an even more powerful emotion, and more important in the book. Love is the emotion that Meg ends up using in the very end of the book to save Charles Wallace and defeat "It," the antagonist.
I totally agree with you sometimes we need anger to help us do things or get us to do better. But love always overcomes anger, love is what brings people together and makes the union that two people have between each other stronger. That's what in the end helped Meg she noticed that even though she didn't understand Charles Wallace he understood her and that all she needed was to feel love towards him. Great job!
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