Madeleine L Engle's Many Waters
In the book, Many Waters, Madeleine L’Engle, the author, uses words of advice from Aariel to Yalith to develop the theme of love. In the book, the main characters, Sandy and Dennys, were messing around in their parents’ lab when they are suddenly sent back to an oasis thousands of years ago. One character on the oasis named Yalith falls in love with the twins. Later on in the book, the god that they call El tells them that a deadly flood is coming to the oasis. Sandy and Dennys will have to leave and go back to their own time so they can survive the disaster. Yalith’s father, Noah, is building an ark for people to survive, but she and her siblings are not allowed on. In the text it says, “‘Aariel---my father is going to build a boat, an enormous