Time Trouble

Alrite. so I finally finished The Time Traveller's wife, and its started to becomes really interesting near the end. When I first started reading it, it kinda dragged on, then everything started to happen. Henry actually tried to rid his diease of time travelling by asking a genelogist to inspect him, so he can control his destinations when he is travelling. Him and Clare have a child together, only then Henry finds out that he passes when his daughter is only 5. The younger version of Henry still sees his child and Clare, but throughout the whole book Clare is waiting for her husband. At the end of the book Clare sees him for the last time, he was 45 and she was 83.

A Strange Man

Things get more complicated by the fact that many, probably most, of Henry's ventures in time are more unexpected. Henry turns out to be known to the Chicago police as a odd man who likes to walk around in alleys with no clothing on. His co-workers in The Newberry Library think of him as a strange guy who occasionally disappears but usually leaves a pile of clothing behind. Henry learns to steal clothing form clothes lines, pick pockets, defend himself from attackers, and break into any sort of locked building. He gets pretty good at this, and actually ends up teaching his young self (whom he occasionally visits) how to do these things. That's how far I have gotten in the novel, but things seem to be getting more and more difficult.

An Untimely Encounter

Luckily for Henry, all this travelling in time takes him to a meadow in the woods just out of sight of the Michigan home of this cute, smart, little girl named Clare. This is a meadow in which Clare likes to play alone. The first time the strange 30 something year old naked man appears out of nowhere in the meadow, she is young enough to not be put off. These encounters had a bit of a relationship to develop. Eventually, they fall in love (actually, she falls in love with him, he is already married to her). Since he always travels around in time, he has figured out most of the times he will arrive in the meadow. Accordingly Clare has a list of dates and times, and makes sure there is a stash of clothing, food, and drink for her him.

Controlling Time?

Henry meets his wife Clare Abshire, when he is 28 years old, in 1991. She is a few years younger. They get married and are very much in love until one of them eventually dies. Now this may sound kind of boring, but there's more. He is from a humble background consisting of two artist parents, and she is of a very wealthy background with a father who is a lawyer and a neurotic mother. Her family lives in Michigan, in a big house in a wealthy space. The actual interesting part is that Henry has an unusual disorder that causes him to occasionally travel in time. It is hard for him to know when the time travel will happen, he cannot stop it or control it, though he learns that certain things make it less or more likely to happen. He gets a bit sick, dizzy, then suddenly he is somewhere else and, and at some other time with nothing, no clothing, no possessions, only his intelligence.