43 pages 1 hour read

Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler's Wife

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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Essay Topics

1.

What genres does the novel embody? How does it subvert these genres? Explain your reasoning with examples from the text.

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How does the split first-person perspective between Clare and Henry affect how readers extract meaning from the novel? How would the novel differ if it were narrated exclusively by one or the other?

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Henry has given Clare much information as to how her future plays out while she is young. How does knowing the future affect Clare?