From the day I was big enough to hold a book in my hands I’ve been drawn to the seemingly magical qualities they possess, from the suspenseful plotlines to the loveable characters. The ability to travel out of my normal life into the amazing world of whatever novel I am reading is especially wonderful when real life seems stressful or bleak, which happens often enough in these fabulous teenage years. During the summer I go to the library or the bookstore and scour the shelves for books I haven’t read yet, then leave with stacks at a time. While my dad and sister enjoy the great outdoors, I sit alone on the couch, or on the deck, or on a tube in the pool, engrossed in the adventures and romances unfolding before my eyes. Sometimes I immerse
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Audrey Niffenegger is a renowned author who has written many novels with varying genres, all subcategories of fiction, who has been referred to as taking influence from the gothic era and compared Edward Gorey and Edvard Munch in style. She centered the plotline of her international bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife, in two areas from her past; a small town in Michigan where she was born and Chicago, Illinois where she grew up. Taking from her experiences in these environments, she creates stable backdrops for the science fiction aspect of the novel that takes prevalence, that of course being time travel. Her use of time travel in the novel causes the distinct lines between past, present, and future to blur, and makes readers question the importance of certain actions both in the characters and in their daily …show more content…
For Care, and readers, “‘That’s how your life is. [...Y]ou put in a tape and you play it from beginning to the end[...] You get up in the morning and you eat breakfast and you brush your teeth and you go to school’” (Niffenegger, 45). Clare represents the normal time track that readers expect, and like readers, she finds it hard to believe anything other than a list of events in that order. Henry’s tape, however, plays in a different way, and he explains this by telling Clare, “‘Now for me, it’s different. Because I am a time traveler, I jump around a lot from one time to another. So it’s like if you started the tape and played it for a while but then you say Oh I want to hear that song again, so you played that song then you went back to where you left off but you wound the tape too far ahead so you rewound it again but you still got it too far ahead’” (Niffenegger, 45-45). While the concept of time travel would never be found in a non-fiction book, fiction allows it to be considered realistically, with seemingly real people that can relate it to common objects or ideas, like a tape
Audrey Niffenegger is a renowned author who has written many novels with varying genres, all subcategories of fiction, who has been referred to as taking influence from the gothic era and compared Edward Gorey and Edvard Munch in style. She centered the plotline of her international bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife, in two areas from her past; a small town in Michigan where she was born and Chicago, Illinois where she grew up. Taking from her experiences in these environments, she creates stable backdrops for the science fiction aspect of the novel that takes prevalence, that of course being time travel. Her use of time travel in the novel causes the distinct lines between past, present, and future to blur, and makes readers question the importance of certain actions both in the characters and in their daily …show more content…
For Care, and readers, “‘That’s how your life is. [...Y]ou put in a tape and you play it from beginning to the end[...] You get up in the morning and you eat breakfast and you brush your teeth and you go to school’” (Niffenegger, 45). Clare represents the normal time track that readers expect, and like readers, she finds it hard to believe anything other than a list of events in that order. Henry’s tape, however, plays in a different way, and he explains this by telling Clare, “‘Now for me, it’s different. Because I am a time traveler, I jump around a lot from one time to another. So it’s like if you started the tape and played it for a while but then you say Oh I want to hear that song again, so you played that song then you went back to where you left off but you wound the tape too far ahead so you rewound it again but you still got it too far ahead’” (Niffenegger, 45-45). While the concept of time travel would never be found in a non-fiction book, fiction allows it to be considered realistically, with seemingly real people that can relate it to common objects or ideas, like a tape