7/7/2023 0 Comments Cloud atlas book explained![]() ![]() Frobisher mounts a production from music that Ayrs gives him, returns to his own composing, and takes Ayrs’s wife, Jocasta, as a lover. The next part, “Letters from Zedelghem” takes place near Belgium in 1931 and is in the form of letters sent from young English musician Robert Frobisher to his lover Rufus Sixsmith while Frobisher is visiting a one-time well-known composer Vyvyan Ayrs who is dying of syphilis. ![]() Autua has hidden in Ewing’s cabin and is put to work by the captain to pay his way. Goose diagnoses him with a deadly parasite and begins treating him. He manages to escape to his ship where his friend, Dr. Ewing later falls into a crater on Conical Tor hill where he sees trees carved with faces. He sees a Moriori slave being whipped by an overseer, and while he is feeling sorry watching the incident, he is being watched by Autua. He is a notary from San Francisco during the Gold Rush. ![]() Ewing is waiting for his ship to be repaired. The opening segment, “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing,” is set in 1850 in the Chatham Islands. The stories are related by documents or other references to a previous chapter. ![]() The book opens with five stories of varying styles each stopping at a significant moment, then there is a sixth story followed by a return to the initial five, but in reverse order. Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel consisting of interconnected stories that stretch from the nineteenth century to a futuristic dystopian society. ![]()
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