Comment on the perspective from which the book is told and how the author's choice affects your relationship with the book's content.

I finished An Unspoken Hunger by Terry Tempest Williams and am now reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

The Time Traveler's Wife is the story of Henry DeTamble, a time traveler, and his wife Clare Abshire. The story follows their relationship from the time they met until the present. While in reality the two were born only eight years apart, due to the fact that Henry can time travel, or rather, he randomly and uncontrollably time travels, they sometimes are in each other's presence when there are around thirty years between them. When they first met, Clare was six and Henry was around 35. Throughout Clare's life, Henry time travels to her era and the two become friends and later on lovers. The story is told from both Clare and Henry's perspectives throughout. Thee story begins and is told from Clare's six year old self, and as she ages the perspective changes. Henry sometimes time travels back to when he was a young boy, so in the same chapter we get the same scene being told by both 30 year old Henry and 9 year old Henry. This change of perspectives and ages and times is confusing at first; it is hard to grasp what has already happened to the characters and what the reader knows will happen but has not in actuality happened yet. However, the perspective does provide the reader with the differences between the same character as an adult and as a child. Niffenegger successfully creates these differences in character to strengthen their personalities.