Continuation of The Time Traveler's Wife

As of right now, I am almost finished with The Time Traveler's Wife. Henry and Clare are officially married but their married life has changed from when they were dating. All is more complicated and "boring" because they hardly talked like they used to. They both learn new things about each other that they have never noticed or asked before. Henry is time traveling in and out but never traveling from the past visiting from little Clare anymore. Clare is longing for a baby but with the current situation, Henry is afraid of the consequences. Henry seeks help from a Dr. Kendrick who he believes can help with this genetic disease. Dr. Kendrick is planning on injecting Henry's DNA into mice and making them time travel to figure out the cure.

It is amazing how this novel and can get better and better every time I turn the page. Niffenegger's technique of writing evokes our emotions and makes us picture ourselves as Clare and Henry, and understand their standing point of the situation. Henry goes back in time, revisiting the past, but returning to the present with nothing but sadness because the people in his life changed or gone. Clare is in the situation that she knows what her future is going to be like, based on what Henry tells her, but she can't do or say anything to change it because time decided for her.

In the past chapters, Niffenegger introduces the idea of escaping isolation through Henry. He talks about the "Cage" that is located in the middle staircase at the library, where he works. With no entrance or exit, Henry eventually time travels inside the Cage, behind bars, separated from the outside world, and not being able to find a way out of it. Henry is isolated from the world because he is the only one, to his knowledge, who can time travel and no one understands him. However, as time passes, Henry is in the position that he has to tell someone besides his wife and family because he is found naked or he disappeared out of the blue. Besides Dr. Kendrick, Henry's bosses/colleagues also know about his illness.