Personal Narrative: The Time Travelors Wife

To me, reading books is somewhat like working on an assembly line in a factory and really loving my job. I love to read, and always have, though there has been no magical occurance as to why like one would hope. Like working in a factory where you do the same thing over and over again, I read a book and the story is always the same. I always really enjoy the books I read but nothing sets them apart from one another. I have read, and loved, books such as Ella Enchanted, The Time Travelors Wife, The Pact, and Please Stop Laughing at Me, but in the end, they are each just a book like all the rest. I have always loved to read and I have not been able to put books down since I can remember. I enjoy all sorts of books from romance to mystery, …show more content…
When a boy is in a tragic car accident with his mother he discovers for the first time that he can time travel. As he gets older and turns into a man, he returns in time on various occasions to a meadow where there is a young girl named Claire. As Claire grows older, she falls in love with the man until she finally catches up with him in time so that they could be together. The rest of the book is about her struggles being his wife when he can disappear for weeks, sometimes months, at a time until one day when he travels back in time and is shot in the woods by Claire 's father, who was hunting at the time. Before he is killed, they have a child who turns out to be just like her father. She keeps his story going by going to see her father through time …show more content…
She was bullied to no end but she never lost the 'good person ' she really was. This book really makes you think about how you live your life and how you talk to people. This is a book I have always felt I could relate to because I never really felt like I fit in throughout my school years. I was always the 'loner ' and really did not like to do things that would get me in trouble or would hurt others. That is not to say I have never slipped up. Being a human, I cannot say I have never done anything to hurt someone else, whether it was intentional or unintentional. This forced me relate to the bullies, even if I really wish I could say I couldn 't. Although this book inspires me to be a better person, it is still just an interesting book. The final book on the line is called The Pact. This is a story of a boy and a girl who grew up practically destined to be together but that changes when one is killed in a supposed suicide gone wrong. The story then launches into the trial where the boy is being persecuted for murder. The police were able to come up with a motive when it was discovered that the girl was pregnant when she died. The story of the boy was that the girl wanted to kill herself and he just wanted to make her happy so he held the gun while she pulled the