When they met, she was six and he was thirty-six; when they got married, she was twenty-three and he was thirty-one; when they reunited after parting, she was eighty At two years old, he was forty-three years old.
Henry is a time traveler, born with a chronic time dislocation disorder, which makes him unknowingly jump in time and space when he is emotional: back in the past, and occasionally into the future. It is not the kind of time travel similar to "Butterfly Effect" or "Lola Run" where only the protagonist is busy from beginning to end and the time and space are relatively limited. Henry can talk to another himself face-to-face during time travel. , he can't change the trajectory of his destiny at will; but the problem is that he can't control when and what time and space he can get to, so that when he comes to another world, he has to ask others what the year of the monkey is. What's worse, he can't take anything that doesn't belong to his body with each time travel. Therefore, after arriving at each other time and space, Henry is tired and hungry, naked, and the dentures that have been filled and filled have to be filled again, and there is a high possibility of being misunderstood as a fugitive, and has a long-term relationship with the police station. Therefore, when Henry started time travel since he was a child, he has learned how to pick locks, steal food and clothing, climb trees and other survival skills. As for the teacher who taught him these things, it happened to be the self who time traveled back to the past when he grew up.
Fortunately, his activities are always limited to those close to him, just like planets orbiting stars in cycles. For example, the singer's Jewish mother, the violinist's father, Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Kim, ex-girlfriend Ingrid, past and future self. The most important of them is his wife, Claire.
For Claire, she was six and he was thirty-six when they first met; but for Henry, she was twenty and he was twenty-eight.
When Claire was six years old, Henry time traveled to the lawn near her home. This is his future wife, and coming to her past fits perfectly with the logic of a time traveler. Since then, Claire has met Henry. The future husband played an elder role in Claire's childhood as both a teacher and a friend. Henry used his own memory to calculate the exact date and time of each time travel, so every time he arrived, Claire prepared food and clothes and waited on the lawn. The intermittent time travel continued until Claire was eighteen. Then Henry said that for two years, they would not see each other again. Henry asked Claire to wait, saying that in two years time, an irreversible opportunity would make them meet again.
When Claire was twenty years old, in the library where Henry worked, he finally met a young Henry he had never seen before. This is Henry's first acquaintance with Claire. Twenty-eight-year-old librarian, alcoholic, messed up, and just broke up with his ex-girlfriend. The beautiful and charming Claire suddenly appeared, he thought it was an affair that fell from the sky, but Claire said: "I have known you for a long time."
[Time is nothing special]
Of course, time travel is a good thing. If Henry came to the future, he would check the stock market or the lottery winning numbers, and then go back to the original time and space to buy potential stocks with Claire in advance, so he made a lot of money. That's how their luxurious villas came to be.
But time travel is uncontrollable and cannot be changed for the rest of your life. The pain for oneself and others far outweighs the benefits it brings.
Because of those involuntarily disappearing, Henry would witness his young self encounter those pasts over and over again, but he could only watch on the sidelines, re-savouring those joys, sorrows and pains. It's like the car accident in the ice and snow in childhood. The mother died, but he was safe because of the time travel that occurred because of the overly frightened. Since then, the father has been devastated and the relationship with his son is indifferent; it's like that winter night, he already knew his ex-girlfriend Ingrid. Henry, who committed suicide, went back to Ingrid's apartment, only to find that her own arrival contributed to her suicide (Ingrid is a character I like very much, cool and arrogant, and it is the core of Winter Chicago in the book Symbol, love is also dead and alive, and it is doomed to tragedy from the beginning. This episode is very depressing); time travel to a cold and empty place, back to reality again, and frostbite makes him lose his life. Feet...and the last parting.
What about Claire, who is walking on the normal journey of time? She was left far behind by her husband, anxiously longing for her lover to return to her side as soon as possible. Claire has normal time, but can only touch time by touching Henry. Time has given her everything, but without Henry's meeting with her, she has nothing. Waiting is her solo from beginning to end.
The child, Elba, is also a little time traveler. In fact, Claire had been pregnant six times before, but they all miscarried without any suspense. Because the child inherited Henry's gene of time and space disorder, time travel began in the embryonic period. The tragic result is that after the child moves out of the mother's body, it is unable to return to the mother's body and dies. The secret to Elba's success is that her father came from another time and space. At that time, Claire was twenty-nine years old, and Henry, her husband, was thirty-seven; but Henry, who was Elba's father, was thirty-three years old when time traveled to the future. Perhaps, fighting poison with poison is the only antidote. In short, Elba was born successfully.
So, there are two time travelers in the family. Little Elba, like her father, began to travel in different time and space. She had seen Henry when he was young, who was still with Ingrid (don't underestimate Ingrid, she is a great woman, about Henry's time travel, about this little girl who appeared strangely, she has always been everything know); she played with her younger self; she also saw the future, lost her father, and lived alone with her mother. So, when Henry in normal time and space met Elba who came from the future, the little girl jumped up and hugged him and shouted, "Dad!" Because, like young Henry, she had been lost in normal time and space. Relatives, can only be fulfilled in the longing of midnight dreams in time travel again and again.
Henry knew how he would die: on a snowy day, he would land in the wilderness outside the eleven-year-old Claire's house. At this time, Claire will sleep obediently in her room, because she has no idea that Henry will come-because there is already Henry here from another time and space. He will encounter Claire's dad and brother who are hunting with a shotgun. So, with a gunshot, the shot Henry was seriously injured and time traveled back to reality again, and died because of massive bloodshed. In place, only Claire, Claire's father and brother, and another Henry were left with a confused look. It's just that they don't know yet that, somewhere in the future, this time-travel cyclic miracle has been permanently ended.
Before Henry travels through time and space to accept this helpless way of dying, he leaves a letter to Claire, telling her: "We'll meet again."
It's a long-lost agreement. Fortunately, waiting has been a skill that Claire has used all her life.
The moment of reunion took place on Thursday, July 24, 2053. Claire was eighty-two and Henry was forty-three.
Henry time traveled into a dark hallway. White light shone through the door at the end. He saw an old woman with white hair. The slight sound startled her, she turned around to see Henry, her face bursting with joy; Henry was suddenly stunned, this is the old Claire! Claire came towards Henry, walking so slowly that Henry took her into his arms.
Claire had been waiting for this moment all her life for the reunion Henry had mentioned in her letter. This day was no different from the past. Claire dressed, brushed her hair, made toast, made tea, sat and watched the lake, wondering if Henry would come today. This time, she knew that Henry would come, eventually. He is coming, and he is here.
【Time is everything, time is nothing.】
The first time I knew this novel was because I saw the introduction of the film of the same name adapted from this book on "Watching Movies". The film stars the very attractive Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. At that time, the pictures in the magazine were also very good-looking, and the plot was also correct, so I remembered it like this, thinking that I must go to see the movie when it comes out. But the movie has been waiting for a long time and there is no movement (involving reshoots, the actor's schedule is required to be free), so I can't stand it anymore, and I want to find a book and read it first. Originally I wanted to borrow it from the library, but I couldn't get it every time I went there, so I decided to pay more than 20 yuan to buy a copy myself. I thought to myself, if it looks good, it is considered a collection.
It was half a year after the book was released, and I read it off and on, and only read a few dozen pages. The main reason is that it is too impetuous and unable to hold back. After staying in Kunming for 20 days, I was very relaxed. Every night I had nothing to do but read a book before going to bed. I just took this book with me. So I finished it in four days.
I like time and space science fiction stories, such as Lola Running, Butterfly Effect; I also like literary stories, such as the English patient, dawn and sunset. "The Time Traveler's Wife" happens to be a strong alliance, so I like it very much.
When I watched Lola run fast, I saw a movie review: Time is everything, time is nothing. Anyway, after reading it, I just lay on the sofa for a long time and didn't want to move, so I started the second time after finishing the other two books. , haven't read it yet. When reading the book, there is a heat flow in my heart, and I can't say anything, I just remember this sentence.
The only thing I regret is that, based on the experience of watching Harry Potter, after reading the book and then watching the movie, the movie becomes quite boring; I don't know how the movie version of "The Time Traveler's Wife" will be adapted this time. Fear that the movie will disappoint. In the end, I came to the conclusion that the book is really better than the movie. But there's no denying that Rachel and Eric's cast is very charismatic. But what I'm really looking forward to is the film's portrayal of Chicago. The author himself is engaged in visual art, and the city where this story takes place is written in the book to make people fascinated. After all, my personal imagination is always a little empty, and I really want to see the real images of Chicago.
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