This is about the nature of being. This is what life is all about. I try to read as widely as I possibly can." (L'Engle)

Nancy-Lou Patterson notices that A Wrinkle in Time is, in its structure and meaning, a Christian fantasy:

In LEngle's works, as in the works of other Christian fantasists, the narrative gains its dynamism from the creative and attractive powers of the good characters. There is a dialectic in Christian literature in which the meeting of good and evil results in more and better good. The plot is always precisely this, that the corruption of the good created world by the forces of antibeing proves to be a felix culpa, a happy fault, whereby the action of God brings a new good, a new creation, even out of evil." (Bloom, 73)

This was the most powerful reason that led to the banishing of the book, because...
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