The Time Traveler's Wife (Pgs.428-536) (**End of Book**)

Summary
     In the concluding sections of the book, a lot of drama and tragedy occurs. Picking up from the last page, Clare begins narrating the new chapter by being in her studio, and thinking about how she hasn't seen Henry in 24 hours. Then, as she's drinking coffee, he shows up, and judging by the good mood he's in, she knows from what year he is coming from. They stay close and start talking, and then Clare confesses to Henry that while waiting to see him again, she made the mistake in sleeping with Gomez. Henry wasn't exactly super upset, because he did tell her to try and do what she could until they saw each other again. At the same time, he was sorta jealous. Then, to add a twist to the confession, Henry asked Clare how it was, and in the end, all was forgiven. Afterwards, the book seems to go back into the day where Clare actually slept with Gomez. The events play out to when Clare wakes up in the morning and realizes what she has done, and almost instantly feels bad in doing it because she thinks of Henry. As she starts crying into Gomez's arms, he asks her who is Henry, because she was talking in her sleep about him. Clare explains that he is her lover, and knowing that Gomez won't believe her, she takes out a picture of him, to which Gomez recognizes. He tells her he isn't good for her, based on the reputation he's heard of Henry, but Clare doesn't care. Here readers learn that this bothers Gomez because he's in love with Clare, and that it hurts him that she prefers to be with Henry. The memory concludes with Gomez kissing Clare, and her not stopping him, and then she leaves.
    In the next flashback through time, Henry is with Ingrid, and he encounters Gomez. Of course, it's a younger Henry that hasn't met him, and when Gomez asks him about Clare, he has no idea who it is. The next thing that happens is that Charisse and Henry go to an opera, where she tells him that Gomez is in love with Clare, and that she's hoping he doesn't leave her, to which Henry responds that he won't. Following that, future Alba is with present Alba, and they are playing together. When future Alba sees Henry, she starts crying and runs to go hug him, while Henry whispers in her ear that Clare can't know that he dies. They then go out for ice cream and after that, future Alba disappears. When Clare tries figuring out what happened, Henry won't say anything.
   Throughout the rest of the book, everything happens chronologically for a while. One day, Henry calls Henry because he's in the freezing cold, but then he disappears. That leads to one Henry having his feet amputated due to hypothermia and left in a wheelchair. Following that, it's Henry's birthday, and Clare decided to buy him an album by his mother. Then, Clare finds out that Henry had Alba get some sort of test so Dr.Kendrick can get working on if she will time travel as well or not. A long period of time after that, Henry finally teaches Clare how to cook, and then Henry time travels back to when Ingrid commits suicide. Henry's time to dying is approaching, but he still won't tell Clare how or when. Henry's death comes on New Years, when in the past he gets shot by a rifle by Clare's dad, who must have thought Henry was an animal when he was hunting. He comes back and is bleeding, and he dies surrounded by Clare and Alba. After that, Clare becomes depressed, and then reads a letter Henry left her in which he tells her he time travelled into the future, and sees her as an old lady. However, there is still another Henry out there that visits his daughter, but not Clare. Clare ends up almost sleeping with Gomez again, if it weren't for Charisse coming home. She did this thinking it was Henry because she's still waiting or him. The book concludes with Henry seeing Clare again as an old lady, just like he had before.

Quote
     "Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself; as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you" (Niffenegger 519).

Reaction
    Through the conclusion of the book, a lot of things occured that kept the reader very interested. The book went in a better chronological order, with Henry's time traveling better understood. The change of narrators still occurs, and the suspense of readers knowing that Henry knows when he is going to die but Clare doesn't leaves readers wondering if she will ever find out, until the day of his death, where he tells her it's time. Although it's very upsetting that Henry dies, there is still some comfort that there's another Henry that Clare has to wait for.
   This quote came from the letter that Henry left Clare before his death, in which he expresses all his feelings. I liked this part of the letter because it's so sweet how much love existed between him and Clare. Although he later states in the letter that he has been an "uncertain husband", it's still sweet how even through all that, their relationship would be something they both could always treasure. It's also sweet that, just through venting thoughts and feelings, his love for her continues to grow. It proves that even if they get separated, their love will never end, because somewhere out in time exists another Henry, that loves Clare just as much as this Henry does. It's a love story that couldn't have been better told.