Log 5

Hello everyone, this is Iris. My log 4 has introduced that Meg, her brother, and her friend were going on a journey to find her disappeared father. So, in this log, I am gonna share what they encounter and how they rescue him. First, let’s start with Camazotz (the planet that holds her father as a prisoner). Everything is identical here. When a boy on Camazotz tossed papers into the entrance, the paper flew in identically the same arc at each doorway, landed in identically the same spot. People who live on Camazotz also do not own their own thoughts, they are doing all the same things at the exact same time. This is because this place is controlled by a disembodied brain called IT  who is evil in this story, and he called that “equal”. 

After they arrived at Camazotz, they saw an embodied brain IT and Meg's father(in a large, round, transparent column). They can see him but cannot go into that column and save him. In order to save their father, Charles goes somewhere with IT but when he comes back he is not Charles anymore, IT got him. So even after Meg took her father out of that column with the help of Mrs.Who’s spectacles, they are facing a new problem, they lost Charles. What's worse Meg got an attack from a black thing and almost die when they escape from Camazotz.

In this story, Meg’s greatest faults are her anger, impatience, and lack of confidence. These all appear when Charles has gone. After Charles gone Meg got desperate and she made me feel very annoyed because instead of figuring out a way to save her brother she started to blame everyone, even her father, and wait for someone else to do something. Later on, it makes me think of myself. I am just the same as her, when things didn’t happen as I expected I will get angry and blame someone that is not responsible for that, now I saw this kind of action from another perspective and know that it is unacceptable.

In the last chapter of the story, they decided that Meg should be the one who goes back to Camazotz to save Charles because she is the one who is closest to him. Before she goes Mr's Which strengthens that she can beat evil with one thing that she has and IT has not. Meg was very scared but she go for her little brother and finally figure out “love” is the key to save her brother, so she tell Charles she loves him again and again until she got him back. At the end of the story, they all went back to home, and everyone is immersed in happiness. Although Meg always gets angry and impatience, in order to save her brother she became braver and overcomes all those "faults". I think this story is trying to tell us that we can do everything with "love".