In Time Traveller's Wife, there are many examples that show the theme innocence to experience throughout the novel in both, Henry and Clare’s …show more content…
An example is when Clare asks “Henry, what are you afraid of?” […] “I am afraid of losing you” […] “I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me” Clare reply’s “I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me” […] “Do you ever find that you go back to your present and something has changed? I mean, what if I wrote the date on this drawing right now? What would happen? Henry says “I don’t know. Try It” (Niffenegger 104-105). This example shows the theme Innocence to experience because Henry is afraid of losing Clare and how he is afraid of losing her to his undependable behaviour towards a relationship, that one day he thinks that Clare would leave him. He is still an little kid in a forty-year-old man who never wants to lose his precious toy, even after constantly using it and playing around it from time to time. Henry is innocent to experience a life with Clare that at the same time it scares him