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.

Comparison Between Movie & Book

The Time Traveler's Wife the movie is very different from the book. I had watched the movie before reading the book and i fell in love with the love story between the two main characters. When I started reading the book i was mesmerized by how different the love between the characters was. Clare played by Rachel McAdams did an outstanding job at portraying the emotions of Clare, but the story did not feel complete due to the lack of detail being left out. Simple things were left out for example the number of children Charisse and Gomez have. In the movie it shows two but in the book they have three children. The book portrays so much more detail than the movie but the majority of movies are like that. This book would have been a huge challenge to create into a movie due to the two perspectives of the two protagonists. It would be difficult to get both sides of the story of the entire story in two hours. Besides the fact that some of the important information was left out of the movie I think that the movie was a pretty good version of the book. With Rachel McAdam's as the lead female role it really brought character to the entire movie based around her character.

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. 

Time

Time is the main theme that is portrayed in the book The Time Traveler's Wife. Henry's genetic disorder causes him to time travel when ever and where ever without him knowing when it is going to happen. The time apart from his wife Clare puts issues in the relationship but only because they long to be with one another. Time is shown in a positive way in the book. Clare is an artist and gets a lot of alone time to work on her art while Henry is gone. This book focuses on the things that happen when they are together more than they are apart. Although many people think that there is not a positive aspect to time Niffenegger has shown that there is.

Lucille and Phillip Abshire

Clare and Henry's Wedding Party:

Gomez, Richard, Lucille, Phillip, Mark

Alicia, Charisse, Clare and Henry 

Lucille and Phillip Abshire are Clare's parents. They have three children Mark, Clare and Alicia. Lucille suffers from depression and anxiety and has a hard time not speaking her mind about things that both her. When Henry goes and meets Clare's family for the first time he is shown how dysfunctional side of the family. Lucille goes into a break down because she is told before Clare and Henry get there for Christmas that Mark and Sharon are now getting married because Mark and Sharon are expecting a child. Lucille will not have it, she thinks that Mark is throwing his life away but in reality Mark is just following in his father's footsteps by taking responsibility. Henry gets to witness everything that Clare did not want him to have to see the first time he met her family. They bond over how their families embarrass them sometimes and help each other through what ever they need to face during the period that they are at Clare's parent's house.

Charisse and Gomez

Clare and Gomez 

Charisse and Gomez are Clare's best friends and roommates. They are in love and end up getting married before Clare and Henry do. Gomez has a hopeless crush on Clare and always will. He always looks at Clare different than he looks at Charisse and it kills her. Charisse is the mother of Gomez's three children but that does not seem to be enough for Gomez he still wants what he cannot have which is Clare. When Gomez found out about Henry's condition he tried to convince Clare to get away from him and not have anything to do with him anymore. That was the first time of many that he would try and tell Clare to leave Henry but it would never work. Charisse is Clare's best friend from college. She moved in with Charisse and Gomez once she finished college and once she met Henry in her present she moved out of their house soon after.

Richard DeTamble

Richard DeTamble is Henry's father. Mr. DeTamble is an amazing violinist who played for a huge orchestra. His wife whom passed away was a beautiful singer who Mr. DeTamble loved very much. Mr.Detamble resents Henry for his wife's death because he lived and she did not. When his wife died he turned to alcohol and it ended up hurting him in the long run by him not being able to play violin anymore. Mr.DeTamble was very depressed until a special surprise came along and stole his heart again. Alba who is his granddaughter was brought into this world and he was mesmerized by her. He wanted to pass on everything he knew about music and she became a great violist too. He finally had meaning in his life again and got to have the bond with Alba that he did not have with Henry.

Alba DeTamble

Henry and Alba 

Alba is Henry and Clare's daughter. Alba is a loving child who is always the life of the party no matter what she is doing she is always making people smile. She has the same genetic disorder and Henry but she has much more control over when she wants to go or where she wants to go. Alba is a very strong young girl and also like Clare had to mature at a young age. When Alba is five years old Henry is shot while he is time travelling and passes away. It puts a lot of strain on Clare and she becomes depressed until Alba pulls her out of it. Alba is very intelligent and loves to learn about the past and history which is why she loves time traveling so much. She spends a lot of one on one time with Henry's father as he teaches her all she needs to know to be a phenomenal violinist.

[Clare:] My body wanted a baby. […] I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always. (Niffenegger, 233)


This quote is from Clare talking about how badly she wanted a child. After six miscarriages she finally got the daughter that she wanted, Alba. 

Henry DeTamble

Henry DeTamble is the first protagonist in The Time Traveler's Wife.  Henry has a genetic disorder where he is able to time travel at any point in time.  During his time traveling he travels to a meadow and meet six year old Clare Abshire. When he meets Clare he is forty and she is six years old. Henry goes back and visit's young Clare when he gets drawn back to the meadow which is the back yard of her house. Henry does not tell young Clare but when he time travel's back home he is spending time with her older self and their daughter Alba. Audrey Niffenegger uses foreshadowing through out this entire book to show what is going to happen in the future for Henry and Clare.



[Henry:] This is why I love to be drawn by Clare: when she looks at me with that kind of attention, I feel that I am everything to her. (Niffenegger,280)


This quote is in Henry's perspective and it shows how connected he feels to Clare even after being together for so long. He feels as if she can just give him 100 percent attention and it makes him feel very loved when they are together. 

Clare Abshire

• Clare Abshire is the second protagonist in the book The Time Traveler's Wife. Clare meets Henry DeTamble who is the first protagonist in the field of her house when she was six years old. Clare falls in love with Henry right away and becomes attached to him even though he is a time traveler and she does not get to see him as often as she would like. Clare goes on living her life when Henry is not around but when he time travel's to her, her whole world stops. She tries to live her life normally when he is gone but the more that she sees him and the more that they spend time together she has a hard time living without him. She's loved Henry since she was six years old and he is the only man that she has ever loved. She waited for him and was very patient with his condition. Henry and Clare end up getting married in Clare's future, and having a beautiful daughter named Alba after 6 miscarriages. Henry's dad takes part in Alba's life along with their close friends Charisse and Gomez and their three children. Henry and Clare are a perfect example of a couple that can fight time with enough love. 

[Clare:] "Do you love her?" [Henry:] "Very much" […] I'm astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face […] [Clare:] "It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me." (Niffenegger,214-215)

This quote was shared between Clare and Henry when Clare was six and getting to know Henry. She was asking about his wife that he always talks about which she later finds out is her. She is upset because she is in love with him and he does not have any idea, so she thinks. 

Love

There are many types of love and relationships that are complicated and unbelievable in the book TheTime Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Niffenegger's book is through the eyes of two main characters Henry and Clare. Henry and Clare are what most romantic's consider "soul mates". They are not the only love that has been shown through out The Time Traveler's Wife. Here are some relationships.


Henry&Clare:

Henry and Clare are the main characters in The Time Traveler's Wife. Henry and Clare meet when Clare is six years old and Henry is forty. Henry is a time traveler and he travels to places in the future and the past of his life that are meaningful to him. He travel's to Clare when she is six years old and they become good friends, Henry becomes her childhood crush, which leads into her boyfriend, fiancé and her husband through out her life. They struggle with his time traveling because sometimes it puts a strain on their relationship as he is leaving and away for weeks at a time sometimes. Clare deals with seeing Henry in different phases of his life. Until she is able to have him in the present where they are both around the same age to be able to date. Clare is the strongest of the two main characters when it comes to love because through out everything, of him leaving and coming back at random times, random ages.. she stands by him and walks through life with him with barley any complaints. She is hopelessly in love with him and you can see that she will love him for eternity. Henry is strong also.. he tries to pull himself from where he traveled back to Clare as fast as possible but with him not being able to control it, thats is not the case. Henry knows how to wow her every time they are together and things are never dull when they get to spend periods of time together. 


Gomez&Charisse:
Gomez and Charisse are Clare's roommates. Clare and Charisse are best friends and live together in 1991. Charisse and Gomez date, and end up getting married although Gomez has a really huge crush on Clare which sometimes gets the best of him Charisse stands by Gomez and does not leave him. She acts as if she does not see the way that Gomez looks at her best friend. Gomez and Charisse have three children tougher and remain married until their death. 


Sharon&Mark:
Mark is Clare's older brother. He is dating Sharon his girlfriend whom he has been with for two years. Sharon had become pregnant and Mark had asked her to marry him due to pure pressure of their Christian faith,Which did not impress his parents. They did not approve of the engagement due to the fact that Sharon was pregnant. 


Philip&Lucille Abshire: 

Philip and Lucille are Clare's parents. They were married very young and have three children together. Mark, Clare and Alicia. They are not in love nor do they even show it. Lucille suffers from depression and anxiety which gets the best of her and has for as long as Clare could remember. You can tell that they are only still remaining married due to their Christian faith. They got married young because Lucille had become pregnant at a young age and it became a repeat in the family with Mark and Sharon and Lucille and Philip did not like that. 


There are many other love relationships in the book but not many of them are as focused as these relationships here. one of the main theme's in The Time Traveler's Wife  is love and it is shown differently in all of the relationships. Love concurs all and it is also shown differently in al of the relationships. You live through the love and the sacrifice of Henry and Clare and see the people around them that they care about struggle on different level's of love with one another. 

Critical Article Summaries

Summary 1: 
Michelle Lee
Literary Newsmakers for Students Volume 1

Michelle Lee's Criticism on The Time Traveler's Wife is discussing the different kinds of Literature that the book uses inside itself. Henry who is one of the two main characters works in the Newberry Library where he reads a lot of books and recites quotes of them through out the entire book. "Audrey Niffenegger successfully grounds the fantastic premise of the Time Traveler's Wife. From quotations, excerpts and poetry that structure the novel to passing remarks about Henry's and Clare's preferred reading material"(Lee,348). She goes through the critical article bringing out the literature that is shown in The Time Traveler's Wife. In the first line of the book it is a quote from J.B Priestly's Man In Time. This quote shows the firm understanding of how Henry's time traveling works before it is even shown in the book. "Without reading the story, readers will know that time will be a major issue"(Lee,348). She is explaining how the different types of literature that has been used through out the novel has been a key theme in showing the understanding of the struggle between the two characters. Through out this article Lee is showing examples of the different kinds of Literature that is being used to create The Time Traveler's Wife and helping it reach its full understanding. 


Summary 2:
Stephanie Merritt
Literary Newsmakers for Students Volume 2



Stephanie Merritt gives comparisons with The Time Traveler's Wife and The Lovely Bones she also critiques the idea of a "Time Traveler" and the entire concept of the book all together. The Time Traveler's Wife and The Lovely Bones she says have unforeseeable commercial success."Henry and Clare, and the fantasy element that Henry suffers from "chronic-dispalcement disorder," a genetic flaw similar to epilepsy, which means that at moments of stress he disappears from the present and patches up naked in his own past or future.This doesn't displace the present self of whatever year he is thrown into, so frequently he finds himself face to face with a younger or older double with whom he can communicate"(Merritt,351). She explains the plot summary of the Time Traveler's Wife  and makes her readers gain an understanding before she goes into detail about her opinion relating to the book. Merritt then goes on explaining how a lot of the paragraphs are "padded" out with details of what they are wearing or eating. " As if the author is over-anxious about rooting her fantasy idea in a convincing recognizable way"(Merritt, 351). She explains here how the author uses random extra details on what the character in the chapter is wearing or what they are eating to fill in voids of the book. "But while the yoking together of scientific principle and fantasy is as science, there seems something distasteful about transferring the experiences of infertile couples afflicted with genetic disorders to the realm of time travel"(Merritt,351). This quote from Merritt's article shows her full opinion on how she things the "time traveling" aspect is in the book that Niffenegger has written. 


Article 3: 
Mark Flanagan
Literary Newsmakers for Students Volume 2
Interview with Audrey Niffenegger 

Through out this interview Mark Flanagan sits and talks with Audrey Niffenegger about her first novel Time Traveler's Wife. He starts talking to her about her passion and how she is an artist in many different forms. Niffenegger is a painter, graphic novel writer, novelist and many more types of an artist. She shows stories through many different eyes and ways. Flanagan asks Niffenegger if she has always know that she wanted to be an artist.  She proceeds to make a joke and they continue their interview. "The premise for The Time Traveler's Wife is fascinating! How did you arrive at it? How did you then transform it into a novel? did you outline the plot, do character sketches, etc?"(Flanagan,352). He asks her all of these questions which many of the readers out there would have wanted to know and benefit from. she proceeded with her answer as followed. "I got the title first, and played around with it for quite  long time, slowly evolving the characters in my head. I wrote the end before anything else, then began to write scenes as the occurred to me.. TTW was written in a complete different order than the one it finally took. I understood early on that it would be organizers in three sections, and that the basic unit was the scene, not the chapter. It has a rather chaotic feel to it, especially at the beginning, and that is deliberate there is a slow piecing together, a gradual accumulation of store, that mimics the experience of the characters. I made a lot of notes about the characters. I hate two timeliness to help me stay organized, but no outline of the plot(Flanagan,352). Through out this interview the readers and Flanagan learn the inside scoop on how the book truly came together and her thoughts while she was writing The Time Traveler's Wife. 

About The Author

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger


I chose to read Audrey Niffenegger's book The Time Traveler's Wife because I had seenthemovie and I really wanted to see how the book was because books are much more descriptive. I have not read any of her olther graphic novels or novels, but once I saw it on the list, I knew that was the book I really wanted to read.

Audrey Niffenegger was born on June 13th 1963. As a child she was always writing. Niffenegger went to school in Chicago and got her master's in fine arts from Northwestern University. While she was writing TheTime Traveler's Wife she was teaching a writing class in Chicago. In Writing The Time Traveler's Wife she had recieved many fellowships including a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Niffeneger lives in Chicago and continues to write and create visual art (Literary Newsmakers For Students Volume 2 pg. 334).

Audrey Niffenegger has a whole bunch of different genres that she works with. She had a gallery of art work on top of being a novel writer and a graphic novel writer too. She is very artistic and can tell stories in many different forms whether it is a painting, graphic novel, or an actual novel. The Time Traveler's Wife was actually suppose to be a graphic novel until there was too much information to be shared so Niffenegger decided that she would take the route of a novel instead.

Niffenegger's book was based in Chicago. Which is also where she spent her life. She uses live historical or random things in Chicago to build the lives of Clare, Henry, Gomez and many more of the characters that surround the Chicago streets. (Literary Newsmakers For Students Volume 2 pg. 347).

Themes that Niffenegger has demonstrated in The Time Traveler's Wife are made very clear. Love conqures all, and the definition between right and wrong are a few of the main big themes that Niffenegger has showed in this book. Love conqures is shown through the lives of the two main characters Clare and Henry. They're always in one another's hearts because the majority of the time gravity pulls them away. It shows through many obstacles that their love grows stronger and they are able to bond together to be stronger than ever. Defining right and wrong is very diffrerent in this book because some things that normal people would think are wrong in reality in the book were reasonable. For instance when Henry is showing his daughter Alba survival skills for when she has time traveled, for her to be able to pick a lock to survive. That is something that we would consider wrong, but in the book in the situation it was right.  (Literary Newsmakers For Students Volume 2 pg. 345)

Kissed By An Angel by Elizabeth Chandler is a great comparrison with Audrey Niffengger's Time Traveler's Wife. Although they are both very different books they show a romance that has been through so much to still carry on. In Kissed By An Angel Ivy who is a "typical" highschool girl tries not to fall for the "typical" jock Tristian. What she comes to realize is that he is far from typical. He is  sweet and kind. After a few months of them dating they fall in love, they go to celebrate their anniversary and on the way they end up getting into a car accident and Tristian does not make it. He becomes her guardian angel who follows her and guides her to help her find out who killed him. They were seperated by something uncontrolable and battled it out by one anothers side. Very similar in The Time Traveler's Wife when Henry has no control over when he leaves Clare and when he comes home, or which version of him comes home for that matter. Both books show a great deal of obstacles that both the female and the male characters have to go through on their own and together.

Critical Article's
* Flanagan, Mark. Literary Newsmakers For Students. Vol. 02. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning,  2006. Print.
* Lee, Michelle. Literary Newsmakers For Students. Vol. 02. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2006. Print.

* Merritt, Stephanie. Literary Newsmakers For Students. Vol. 02. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2006. Print.

Bibliography:

* Hacht, Anne Marie. Literary Newsmakers for Students. Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Newsmaking Novels, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. Print.

Book Submission 1

Title: The Time Traveller's Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

Year Published: 2003

Number of pages: 525

I chose this book because when I was going through the list this was the book that I thought was going to be the most interesting. I am a big fan of romance and I had seen the movie when it came out. Rachel McAdam’s was the lead female in the movie; she is an amazing actor and I thought this book would be great because of how the two main characters in the movie brought the story to life on screen.

I really enjoy this book so far because of how it is laid out. The book is laid out in basic dialogue between the two characters and sometimes more characters get thrown it. It flips from the past and the present of where Clare is. 

I have only read the first 3 chapters but already I am really enjoying the story line and how the characters all tell the story in different perspectives.

In the beginning of the book it goes to where Clare is in her present and she sees Henry again. This is the first time that she has seen him other than when she was 18 and younger so she is over excited and shocked. He on the other hand does not remember her nor does he have any idea that she knows about his condition and that they have met over 100 times before this time. I can already in just the few chapters I have read I can tell that there is a lot of love and chemistry between these two lead characters.

There are a few themes that I see that are forming already and that is love, change and loneliness. The love theme that I can see already is between Clare and Henry I can really see them being a true love that can face anything and as their characters start to get to know each other and face things together it really shows. Change is a big theme in the book so far because they both need to deal with change. Henry needs to deal with having someone to come back to and to think about their feelings and Clare has to work on being okay with waiting around for him when he goes, because they both can not control when he does go but he needs to try and understand how hard it is going to be on her. Lastly loneliness, Clare is going to have to deal with being alone when Henry is gone and that is for long periods of time the majority of the time. I think the author is trying to show these themes because she wants the reader to really be able to relate to the characters and what they are going through. 

A secondary resource that I have currently looked into is the movie Time Traveller's Wife. The movie was amazing. It really showed the love and pain between the two main characters. The book is conversations between the two main characters; or even between the main characters and other loved ones or people they cross paths with in their time. The movie did an outstanding job on showing the time line and the conversations between all of the characters in the book. It is interesting to see how great of a job they did with bringing the story and situations to life.

“It’s hard to be the one left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, if he’s okay. Its hard to be the one who stays"(Niffenegger 1).

This line from the novel really speaks to me, not just because it is the first sentence, it’s because it takes my mind away to be put in her perspective and how she is feeling at that point in time. This sentence is not overly emotional but you can put your own emotions to how she is feeling as she is saying this. “ it’s hard to be the one who stays” is the thing that impacted the most, no one likes being left behind so I can really feel her emotions when she says that. 

My goal is to finish reading my book by the middle of October.

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