Death

Death is another theme that comes up in The Time Traveler's Wife. There are many deaths that create different personalities of the characters that are affected by it. Clare loses her mother to ovarian cancer and does not think that her mother loved her at all, when she finds the poem that her mother wrote her and she finally had closure with it. Henry loses his mother when he is six in a car accident that he was also in. Henry's father got depressed when he lost his wife and Henry tried to make himself noticed by being the best he could be to impress his father. Henry travels back in time and sees his parents love for one another. Henry takes that and puts it into the relationship that he has with Clare. Death is shown in different ways and different situations in the book The Time Traveler's Wife.