Thursday, November 17, 2005
Time Traveler's Wife
As I think about this book, I find myself coming back to the idea of the possibility of time travel after death. Actually, it's not really after death, since the travel to the future occurs while Henry is alive -- it's just that he arrives in Clare's future more than 40 years after he has died. What must Clare be feeling? She's known that this moment was coming (thanks to Henry's list of dates) ... and what's it like for Henry.. he sees a woman of 80+ For once, she's the one who knows what his future will bring. The irony of Clare holding the truth rather than Henry is an intersting twist to end with. Imagine if this were possible - death wouldn't really be the end....
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I thought that this book was interesting because of the way it made you think about the aspects of time travel. Why did he always arrive naked? If his clothes were on him, wouldn't they travel with him? Or do clothes not make it through the "time travel barrier"? Did his time travel affect the outcome of different events, or were their lives based on fate and therefore not able to be changed by his traveling?
This book was beautiful. Clare was quite lucky to be so sure of the future, even though the eventual outcome was sad. She knew Henry all her life -- maybe she first saw him as a father figure... but I'll leave the Freudian stuff for now.
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