Conclusion

Overall, The Time Traveler's Wife is a phenomenal book that shows a true love story that could concur anything including time. Clare and Henry may sometimes look like a fairy tale but they had ordinary problem and ordinary arguments that created a true relationship that everyone who read the book could relate to. Henry may have a genetic disorder but dealt with his problem very well by accommodating his life to work around it. He got married and had a child and continued his life to the fullest. Clare loved Henry from the moment she saw him when she was six years old. Nothing could compare to how she felt about him. Clare was use to begin left by henry because she had been left by him since she was a little girl. As years went on it got harder but she had her beautiful daughter Alba and her created family to help her miss him less when he was gone. This book is an amazing love story that shows the positive side to Time when in reality we do not think there is a positive. Niffenegger has shown a positive side and created a book that is amazing.

Alicia Abshire

Alicia is Clare's younger sister. She plays as a small character in the book but her little part is very important. Alicia had recognized Henry before the first time she met him. She had a few encounters with Henry when he would time travel and stay in the house but she was too young to actually come up with facts. When Alicia met Henry she was very put off because she thought she knew him from somewhere. Clare played it off to make her seem crazy when in reality Henry and Alicia have had conversations before she had introduced them that one Christmas. Alicia bonded really well with Henry and she had a very close relationship with Clare. Alicia was the baby and wanted to go out and have fun when Clare was the one who kept the family running functionally. Alicia was an amazing Violist and loved Henry's father's ability to bring music to life.

Annette DeTamble

Henry and his mother

Talking about being in love and

 wanting to purpose to Clare

Annette is Henry's mother and she affected a lot of lives. Annette was a beautiful opera singer and her and Richard fell in love when they were really young. She only cried twice in her life, once when Richard gave her the engagement ring and asked her to marry him, which now Clare has the pleasure of wearing and when Henry was born. Henry was the love of Annette's life from the moment he was born. She loved him fully for everything he did. She was not disappointed that he was not musically inclined like her and her husband she loved him for him. Richard also loved Henry for who he was while Annette was alive but when he lost her he lost a big part of his happiness. Annette had a big role in how Henry and Richard lived the rest of their lives. Annette gave Henry the strength to move on and find love. When he found Clare they had an encounter about how he wanted to purpose to Clare and she told him to follow his heart. He was a complete stranger to her, but she was his mother and that meant the world to him. Mr. DeTamble turned to drinking and not wanting to go on with his life. His drinking turned into a problem by him not being able to play Violin anymore. Mr. DeTamble ends up teaching Alba everything that he knows about the Violin and how to play. I think that Alba reminds him of Annette.

Kimmy

Kimmy is Mr. DeTamble's landlord. Kimmy is an older woman who helped raise Henry. Kimmy was the mother figure in Henry's life when his mother passed away at a young age. Mr. DeTamble lives with Kimmy after Henry moves out and she takes care of him when he gets fired and starts to drink heavier. Kimmy meets Clare and right away adores her. Clare and Kimmy become very close to one another through out the book. Henry gives Kimmy his dads rent so that she does not have the burden of his father when he is going through a rut. Kimmy had been married and had a little girl years ago. Her daughter died before Henry was born but Henry has traveled back to see her. Mr. Kim passed away after Henry's mother died. Kimmy is a very strong character in the book and deals with loss way better than any character in the book has. Kimmy is strong willed and this book shows a great strong woman that helps lift up people when they are down when she was having a hard time pulling herself together she rose above it all.

Mark & Sharon

Mark and Sharon are a couple in The Time Traveler's Wife That struggle through out the entire book. Mark is Clare's older brother and when Henry meets him and his girlfriend it was very devastating for Clare's family. Mark had gotten his girlfriend Sharon pregnant and wanted to get married to create a family. Mark felt obligated and his mother did not like that. Clare's mother Lucille and her father Phillip had gotten pregnant with Mark when they were both young. Lucille does not approve of the marriage because she feels as if history is repeating itself. Mark and Sharon end up getting married and having more than one child but Sharon still does not get the approval of Mark's mother.

Dr. Kendrick

Doctor Kendrick is the genetic doctor that helps Henry figure out more information about his genetic disorder. Dr. Kendrick did not believe that Henry was a time traveler until he saw it before his own eyes. it happened when Henry got frustrated because Dr. Kendrick would not even give him the time of day and he ended up time traveling in the middle of an interception. Dr. Kendrick was getting more interested in Henry when he didn't even have an idea of what he was when Henry gave him a note that said that his son was going to have down syndrome. Dr.Kendrick helped Alba tame her time traveling by doing testing on her too.

Clare & Henry

Henry: When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspapers in question is a week old; that I am not the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each others musical excesses. (How can Clare listen to Cheap Trick? Why does she like The Eagles? Ill never know, because she gets all defensive when I ask her. How can it be that the woman I love doesn't want to listen to Musique du Garrot et la Farraille?) The hardest lesson is Clare's solitude. Sometimes i come home and Clare seems kinda irritated; I've interrupted some train f thought, broken into the dreamy silence of her day. (Niffenegger, 275-276).

This quote is Henry talking about his new life married to Clare. It sounds much different than their relationship before because of the habits and different information comes out when you spend more time with someone. Henry finds out that it becomes a problem when Clare does not like the fact that they eat the same thing three days in a row and also their musical differences. This quote shows that their relationship is a normal relationship and not a fantasy.