Kairos, the framework in which the stories of the Murry and O'Keefe families take place, was defined as "real time, pure numbers with no measurement", and often includes such elements as time travel, fantasy and religious content in a struggle between good and evil. These are presented in a primarily realistic framework, though occasionally with elements that might be regarded as science fiction. The stories of the Austin family take place in a chronos environment, which L'Engle defined as "ordinary, wrist-watch, alarm-clock time.". In a family tree chart first published inside the front cover of Many Waters (1986, ISBN: 6-4), L'Engle divided her major characters into categories she called " chronos" and "kairos", two Greek terms for different concepts of time. This article provides information about L'Engle's most notable characters. Other major characters are the protagonists of a single title. Many of her fictional characters appeared in more than one novel, sometimes in more than one series of novels. Madeleine L'Engle, an American novelist, diarist and poet, produced over twenty novels, beginning with The Small Rain (1945), and continuing into the 1990s with A Live Coal in the Sea (1996).
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