Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas, the novel by David Mitchell consisted six stories in different space time around the globe from nineteenth century to the future. The author used Cloud Atlas Six trios as the background music to link the interlocking six lives.
What caught my eyes first was the author's ingenious writing style providing readers with a broad and fabulous insight from three dimensions into the whole scale of the world we exist. In time, it ranges from 1849 to 2144, from the Slavery to the future time. In space, it ranges from Europe, America, England and Korea. Through different presenting ways including journal, letter, fiction and orison, the single book was made up by history thriller, comedy, science-fiction which makes up a exciting journey for readers.
Furthermore, the specific meanings and themes of each story was enlightening. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing talks about enslavement and the evil desire for money. Letters from Zedelghem explores the meaning of crimination, death and dream. Half-lives—The first Luisa Rey Mystery represents the loss of humanity under the protection of benefit. In The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish illustrates people’s rebellion to strive for freedom. An Orison of Sonmi~451 criticizes the devastating effect of clown technology. Finally, in Sloosha ’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After, the author predicts what human beings will face in front of the nature we will have destroy. These concluding and prophetic themes are representative and inspiring.
Finally, the writer implies insightful main moral behind six relating pieces woven together. The whole world, all the events and people are interlocking. The past is affecting us in every second and what happen and what we do at the present will influence the future. Death is not the ending, people reborn in ways that continue their lives forever. That is through rebellion. That no matter in what time, with the development of society and technology, the dangerous will to power that lies at the dark heart of man is always underlying. Therefore people who have longing for freedom should rebel against confinement.