The theme that is developed in the excerpt and repeated later in the story is A. Hiding one's true self to conform and to fit in often leads to unhappiness.
The detail from the text that supports the answer provided is "Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn’t me".
The theme of a story refers to the underlying meaning of a story. The theme is the message that the writer wants to convey in the story.
In the story "A wrinkle in Time", the theme developed was that hiding one's true self to conform and to fit in often leads to unhappiness. Calvin was explaining to Meg how he couldn't hold himself down and how this could lead him to <em>unhappiness.</em>
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