THE ANALYSIS OF PROTAGONIST FOUND IN “CLOUD
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ABSTRACT
The paper entitled “The Analysis of Protagonist Found in Cloud Atlas by
David Mitchell” is about protagonist characters that found in Cloud Atlas novel.
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “The Analysis of Protagonist Found in Cloud
Atlas by David Mitchell” ini membahas tentang karakter-karakter protagonist
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God Allah SWT for blessing and giving me opportunity, health, and ability to accomplish this paper. Afterwards, invocations and greetings I deliver to the last Prophet
Muhammad SAW who has brought us into the time of humanities.
I would like to thank to Dr. Syahron Lubis, M. A. as the Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies. Then, I would like to thank to Dr. Matius C. A. Sembiring, M. A., the Head of Diploma III English Study Program, who has shared his time to guide me in the process of my study. I would like to dedicate a deep gratitude to my supervisor, Drs. Syahyar Hanum, DPFE. and my reader, Mahmud Arief Albar, S.S., M.A. for the valuable time to give the correct and give constructive criticisms in completing this paper. Then, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for their valuable guidance and knowledge that they have gave to me during my study.
The most special thank is dedicated to my beloved parents, my father,
culture for your cares, advices, and supports. Also thanks to my friends at English Diploma III 2010 thank you very much for all of you, for your attention and support to me.
Finally, I realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome any constructive criticisms and suggestions towards to this paper.
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Table of Contents in Paper 1.1Background of the Study ………1
1.2Problem of the Study………...4
1.3Purpose of the Study………...4
1.4Scope of the Study………..4
1.5Reason for choosing the topic……….4
1.6The Method of Research……….5
3. THE ANALYSIS OF PROTAGONIST 3.1 The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing………...11
3.2 Letters from Zedelghem………..13
3.3 Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery………...15
3.4The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish………...19
3.5An Orison of Sonmi~451………...20
3.6Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After………..22
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1CONCLUSIONS………...25
4.2SUGGESTIONS………...25
REFERENCES……….26
ABSTRACT
The paper entitled “The Analysis of Protagonist Found in Cloud Atlas by
David Mitchell” is about protagonist characters that found in Cloud Atlas novel.
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “The Analysis of Protagonist Found in Cloud
Atlas by David Mitchell” ini membahas tentang karakter-karakter protagonist
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1Background of the Study
Literature is writing or studying of books, valued as works of art. Roberts et al (1995:1) say, “Literature refers to composition that tell stories, dramatize situation, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas”. Taylor (1981; 1) says that literature is like other arts, it’s essentially an imaginative act, that is an act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience. Literature helps us grow, both personally and intellectually. It provides an objective base for knowledge and understanding. It links us with the broader cultural, philosophic, and religious world of which we are a part. It enables us to recognize human dreams and struggles in difference places and times that we would never otherwise to know. It exercises our emotions through interest, concern, tension, excitement, hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy. It encourages us to assist creative, talented people who need recognition and support.
Drama may focus on a single character or small number characters, and it enacts fictional events as if they were happening in the present, to be witnessed by audience. Roberts et al (1995:2) say that drama is literature designed to be performed by actors. Peck et al (1984:75) say that Drama is all plays employ the same basic structure of exposition, complication and resolution.
Siswanto (2008:127) says that prose is story carried by certain actors, with a role, setting along with and series and combination of specific stories that started from the results of the author's imagination (and reality) to establish a story. Prose divided in fiction prose and nonfiction prose. Nonfiction prose is the literary genre that consist of news reports, feature articles, essays, editorials, textbooks, historical and biographical works, and all of the describe or interpret facts and present judgments and opinions. Prose fiction or narrative fiction, includes myths, parables, romance, novels and short story.
Novel has two elements; they are extrinsic element and intrinsic element. The intrinsic element consists of theme, plot, setting, and character. The extrinsic element consists of social value of the novel and psychology history. All the elements are important, but character is very important element, because characters make the novel runs. Characterization is the people in the novel that can be played by human. But some novels have animal and plant as the character that have human nature or we called Fable. Characterization is very important in the novel and Aziez et al 2010:60) say that the characters in a good novel are interesting, intriguing, consistent, convincing, complex, and realistic. If the author has created a particularly vivid or individualistic character, then we, as readers, will find that character interesting regardless of whether or not we sympathize with him or her. So, the writer would like to analysis the protagonist characters in Cloud Atlas novel by David Mitchell.
1.2The Problem of the study
The problem of the study is how the protagonist can be described in David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas.
1.3Purpose of the Study
The purpose of writing this paper is to give the description of the protagonist found in the novel “Cloud Atlas” which is written by David Mitchell.
1.4Scope of the Study
The scope is useful to avoid confusion of reader in understanding the analysis and acquire good result. The writer is sure that there are many important aspects of the novel can be discussed. In writing this paper, the writer only focuses on one element of intrinsic. Nurgiyantoro (2003:23) say that intrinsic element of a novel is the all elements that directly build a story. They are theme, plot, character, setting, and point of view that is characterization, especially protagonist characters. Theme is the main idea of the story. Plot is a series of stories. Character is the people in a novel. Setting is background of story. Point of view is the way of author seeing the story line. Therefore the writer discusses only the protagonist element.
1.5 Reasons for Choosing The Topic
1.6Method of the Study
2.REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Theme
Theme is the idea of the author that is presented in his / her work. It is the basic story that dominated the subject matter of a literary work. Hamalian et al (1967:323) say that theme is a kind of composite statement which requires our comprehension of numerous other elements. Goodman (2003: 167) says that theme is the main idea of the story, the theme of story is different from the plot. The author tries to understand the whole problem internally by studying a number of issues in relation to the existence of an individual as well as the relationship between the individual and society.
2.2 Plot
Plot is a series of stories. Abrams in Siswanto (2008:159) say that the plot is a series of stories that formed by the stages of events that weave a story presented by the actors in a story. Goodman (2003: 19) says that plot tells the important events that occur in a story, and plot is the series of incidents in the order in which they take place. Most of the story, the narrator makes the plot. Narrator is the person who tells the story. Usually, the narrator is the writer or a character in the story.
be defined as the way the author to establish the events in a row by taking into account the law of cause and effect so it is a unitary piece, round, and intact. Plot consists of several stages: introduction, conflict, complication, climax, denouement, and resolution.
The introduction is the stage of events in a fictional story that introduces the character or background of the story, such as the character's name, the character's origins, physical characteristics, and properties. Conflict is the tension between the two forces in a story. Goodman (2003: 59) says that conflict occurs when there is a struggle, a fight, or a strong difference of opinion between characters. As you might expect, conflict in a story generally leads to action. Conflict also occurs when a character clashes, or struggles, with a force of nature. Conflict with nature also plays an important part in the story. Sometimes, a character experiences inner conflict. Inner conflict is a struggle that takes place in the mind of a character.
2.3 Character
The people in a novel are referred to as characters. Character is person who carries the events in fiction that it establishes a narrative of events. If we examined it in term problem, character can be divided in to flat character and round character. Flat character is characters that are simple and static. Round character is character that has the complexity and dynamic character. The round character usually plays as the main figure in a story. If we examined the characterization in terms of characters personality, can be distinguished on the protagonist and antagonist. Protagonist is a character with good personality and positive, most readers preferred this character. Antagonist is a character with a bad personality and negative, most of the readers hate this character.
like. The author can tell what a character thinks about and say. The author can also describe a character’s action. All of these characterize the people in a story. Sometimes, during the course of a story, the character change. This is known as character development. Character introduced at the beginning of a novel will usually come into collision with society. The opening chapter will expand the picture of the characters and the society they live in. The novel will bring various characters into confrontation and put characters into problematic situation.
2.4 Setting
Setting is background of story that describes place, time, and atmosphere in a novel. Abrams in Siswanto (2008:173) say, “Setting is general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in every episode or part of place. But Hamalian et al in Siswanto (2008:149) say that setting in fiction not just place, time, event, the atmosphere and objects in a particular environment, but also can be the atmosphere related attitudes, way of thinking, prejudice, and lifestyle of a community in response to a particular problem. Goodman (2003: 105) says that setting is the time and place of the action of the story, when and where the action takes place.
2.5 POINT OF VIEW
3.THE ANALYSIS OF PROTAGONIST CHARACTERS
3.1 The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
1. Adam Ewing
Adam Ewing is a notary from San Francisco, California living in the nineteenth century. He is sent to the South Pacific, charged with finding the beneficiary of a will under probate in California. On his return voyage from Australia, Ewing is delayed on one of the Chatham Islands as the ship he is on - the Prophetess - makes repairs. It is on this island that he meets the English "doctor," Henry Goose, whom the ship's captain invites aboard once the ship is seaworthy. Also in the island, he encounters a member of the native Moriori people named Autua. Ewing observes the native being flogged by Maori, no doubt a driving factor in Autua's later appearance in Ewing's cabin as a stowaway. Ewing and Goose become friends and the "good" "doctor" treats him for a mysterious "ailment". Goose turns out to be poisoning Ewing, plotting to rob him blind (if not dead), but the notary is pulled back from the brink of death by the native stowaway, Autua.
Quote:
The explanation of quote:
After seeing the slavery that occurs in Chatham Island, Adam Ewing makes a petition to abolish the slavery and free the Moriori people from slavery. Ewing also helps a native Moriori (Autua) to exit from Chatham Island and goes with him to California.
2. Autua
Autua is a member of the native Moriori people of the Chatham Islands The native's next appearance is on the ship Prophetess, where he has escaped and is hiding as a stowaway hiding in Adam Ewing's cabin. Autua pleads with the captain, who is bent on tossing the stowaway overboard, and after Ewing's intervention on his behalf he is allowed to demonstrate his skill as a seaman and to work for his passage on the ship. With some outside perspective on the situation, Autua is intuitive enough to see through the ruse of the so-called forces him to drink enough water to dilute the poison, which saves Ewing's life. Autua jumps ship with Ewing on his shoulder and takes the sick man to a hospital run by nuns. A humble Autua insists that Ewing's decision to prevent him from being thrown overboard is the reason he was there to save Ewing's life - and thus Ewing actually saved himself.
Quote:
far from Chatham Isle was a puzzle I could not begin to solve, but I entrusted myself to his care. (P. 505)
The explanation of quote:
With a strange accent and pronunciation of English haltingly, Autua trying to find a hospital to treat Ewing. He asked the locals but he was expelled, because he is a black slave and considered contemptible. Finally he took Ewing to the church, because he has a sister who became a nun in the church.
3.2 Letters from Zedelghem
1. Robert Frobishera
Robert Frobisher, a young Englishman in 1931,has been disowned by his father, kicked out of the University, and has an army of creditors eager to find him. He "escapes" to Belgium and presents himself as a musical aide to an aging and ailing composer, Chateau Zedelghem, where he writes long letters to his friend (understood to be his lover), Ayrs' wife, Vyvyan Ayrs, and the young man is asked to leave the Chateau. In despair, he writes one final letter to Sixsmith before he fatally shoots himself with Ayrs' pistol.
Quote:
it?” and stuff it into a drawer; but it’s an incomparable creation. Echoes of Scriabin’s White Mass, Stravinsky’s lost footprints, chromatics of the more lunar Debussy, but truth is I don’t know where it came from. Waking dream. Will never write anything one-hundredth as good. Wish I were being immodest, but I’m not. Cloud Atlas Sextet holds my life, is my life, now I’m a spent firework; but at least I’ve been a firework. (P. 470)
The explanation of quote:
In his next letter, Frobisher obsesses about two things: his sextet and meeting Eva. The entire world is music to him. He has stopped taking care of himself, no longer cares about anything but finishing his music and reconnect with his love, Eva. He sees himself as one bright, short life, who whose musical genius is coming to him all at once and will burn him out, rather than someone like Ayrs, who had little bits of genius spread across along life.
2. Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck
Quote:
Because all my life, sophisticated, idiotic women have taken it upon themselves to understand me, to cure me, but Eva knows I’m terra incognita and explorers me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she’s lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table.
Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines" (P. 454) The explanation of quote:
Frobisher loves her so much. She makes him found his love desire and music back. For Frobisher, Eva is everything and his true love.
3.3Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
1. Luisa Rey
able to expose the company, leading to the indictment of Lloyd Hooks and several other Seaboard executives.
Quote:
“So. The cops got it wrong, the ME got it wrong, everyone got it wrong except Luisa Rey, ace cub reporter, whose penetrating insight concludes the world-famous number report, a report nobody agrees exists. Am I right?” (P. 117) The explanation of quote:
Luisa was very disappointed with all the people who pretend not to know and do not care about Seaboard Project and what happened to Sixsmith. She tried to find the mystery behind Sixsmith’s death by herself although she’s chased by an assassin.
2. Joe Napier
and Megan Sixsmith at the local museum. When he and Luisa follow hunch to search Sixsmith's yacht for another copy of the expose, Napier and Bill Smoke kill each other in a shootout.
Quote:
Milly would have clucked over you, he thinks. Had you over
for dinner, fed you away too much, and nagged you on what
you need to be nagged about. He recalls Luisa as precocious
little six-year-old. Must be two decades since I saw you at the last Tenth Precinct Station reunion. Of all the professions that lippy little girl could have entered, of all the reporters who could caught the scent of Sixsmitth’s death, why Lester Rey’s daughter? Why so soon before I retire? Who dreamed
up this sick joke? The city? (P. 135)
The explanation of quote:
Joe is very sad to see his friend’s daughter face a big problem that is impossible for her to resisted, thought Joe. He had helped Luisa; because Luisa’s father had helped him while he was working in the Police Department and he knows that Seaboard Project can threaten the lives of many people.
3. Rufus Sixsmith
the HYDRA. Before he can act, he is murdered in his airport hotel room, where he is waiting for his flight out of the country. The murder is made to appear a suicide. Sixsmith meets is the daughter of renowned journalist, Lester Rey, on a whim he mails a safety deposit key to her, a key that will lead her to a copy of the HYDRA expose
Quote:
“I met an atomic engineer.” Luisa ignores the indifference chilling the room. “An inspector at Seaboard Incorporate.” Nancy O’Hagan is doing her fingernails, driving Luisa to present her suspicious as facts. “He believes the new HYDRA nuclear reactor at Swannekke Island isn’t as safe as the official line. Isn’t safe at all, in fact” (P. 100)
The explanation of quote:
In the previous story, Luisa met Rufus Sixsmith in elevator and they were stuck in there. Rufus told her about the project that he’s working on (although not described by the author) is not safe and can threaten the lives of people. Then Luisa asked to Naussbaum about the issue.
4. Isaac Sach
Quote:
“You hear me, Luisa? Garcia has a present for you. A more alert quarter of Luisa’s brain muscle in. Isaac Sach left the Sixsmith Report in your VW. You mentioned the trunk didn’t
lock. He assumes we are being eavesdropped” (P. 138)
The explanation of quote:
After Isaac left Luisa, he was hiding something in the trunk of Luisa’s VW. Fearing of the same fate as Sixsmith, he flew to Philadelphia and called Luisa that Garcia (Luisa’s VW) has a present for her.
3.4The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
1. Timothy Cavendish
Quote:
“I mean, it’s not ruddy Luxemburg we live in-but no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters” (P. 163)
The explanation of quote:
People think this world would be enough to hold all the happenings of many lifetimes, but according to Cavendish, we are crossing and re-crossing our old selves, our past lives, again and again.
3.5An Orison of Sonmi~451
1. Sonmi~451
"Bill of Rights." Within hours of handing over her document, she is seized by corporate operatives and imprisoned. She tells her story to an archivist (historian), who records in on an orison (a memory egg).In the primitive world of the "Sloosh'a'sCrossin'" chapter, Sonmi has become the society's god, the one to whom they pray for good crops, good fortune, and safety.
Quote:
“To generate the show trial of decade. To make every last pureblood in Nea So Copros mistrustful of every last fabricant. To manufacture down strata consent for the JUche’s new Fabrica Xpiry Act. To discredit Abolitionism. You can see, the whole conspiracy has been a resounding success” (P. 348)
The explanation of quote:
After figuring this injustice out, she still went along with it because her hope is that her declarations will somehow find a way to influence people. And she has succeeded: by banning adherence to her writings, by teaching them as “twelve blasphemies” the government has all but guaranteed their spread. That there will be a statewide “Vigilance Day” against fabricants who seem to be following the declarations proves there is a need for that level of security, so Somni has won.
2. Hae-Joo Im
be a part of Union, a counter-corporate group hoping to overthrow the current regime and restore respect for human rights to the region. He leads Sonmi on a whirlwind escape throughout the Nea So Copros countryside, becomes her lover, and encourages her to write "Declarations," a fabricant "Bill of Rights." In the end, it turns out that he is just another corporate deceiver.
Quote:
Wangshimni Orchad: what an encyclopedia of consumables for hours, I pointed at times for Hae-Joo to identify: bronze masks, instant bird’s nest soup, fabricant toys, golden suzukis, air filters, acidproof skeins, oraculars of the Beloved Chairmain and statuettes of the Immanent Chairman, jewel-powder perfumes, pearlsilk scarves, realtime maps, deadland artifacts, programmable violins. (P. 227)
The explanation of quote:
Hae-Joo tried to teach Somni about everything that she saw. She doesn’t know all the things because Somni is a fabricant with low IQ.
3.6Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
1. Zachry
Quote:
One: Hands are burnin', let that rope not be cut. Two: Enemy's sleeping, let his throat be not slit.
Three: Bronze is burnin', let that bridge not be crossed. (P. 247)
The explanation of quote:
A night before he met Meronym, he was dreaming about three accidents that he couldn’t understand. He doesn’t know that he’s dreaming about the future to help Meronym.
2. Meronym
Meronym is a woman of the Valleymen for a year in order to learn about their society and customs. Meronym is a fifty-year-old prescient woman who comes to live with on the "Big I" for a year in order to learn more about their society and way of living. She has strange skills (called "Smarts" by the Valleymen), some of which she shares with the locals. She and Zachry become reluctant friends, and the pair explores the island together. She shows Zachry the truth about Sonmi to him. Meronym rescues Zachry when he is captured by the fierce Konas, and the pair escape the destruction on the "Big-I" together for Maui.
Quote:
I asked why Meronym’d never spoke this yarnin’ in the Valleys. Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’s b’liefs ain’t true, they think you’re sayin’ their life ain’t true an’ their truth ain’t true.
The explanation of quote:
Meronym tells a story to Zachry about modern civilization (Civ’lize) where Somni was still alive. There was a human named Old Uns who made a more modern civilization (Civ’lize) even exceeded our dreams now. He made a rule in Civ’lize. He created a fabricant as the slave for human. Somni, one of the fabricant, made a conspiracy to break the rule. There was a massive rebellion and made Civ;lize destroyed (they called The Fall Day). Old Uns tripped their own fall.
3. The Abbess
Abbess is the chief religious official and educator in Zachry's valley. She is seen by the village people as a highly respected source of knowledge and wisdom about both the past and future. She is able to have "visions", which she believes are sent by Somni. One such vision is described in the book where she receives three lines of advice for Zachary.
Quote:
“Civ’lize needs time, an’ if we let this clock die, time’ll die too, an’ then how can we bring back the Civ’lize Days as it was b’fore the Fall?” (P. 247)
The explanation of quote:
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1Conclusions
After analyzing the protagonist characters that found in Cloud Atlas novel, the writer get some conclusion as follow:
4. The difference that you make today will impact tomorrow.
5. All human have the same rights. Oppression and slavery are violation of morality.
6. Do not be afraid to express and defend the right thing even though risking lives.
7. It is never too late to change your ways and find real value or even joy.
4.2Suggestions
Having complete this paper, the writer has suggestion that the novel has morality message that slightest difference that you make today will have an impact in the future, although it’s good or bad deeds. If you are expecting a beautiful future then do the good things, but if you do all the bad things, a dark future will be waiting for you.
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APPENDICE
The Biography of David Mitchell
Mitchell was born in in the in to technical students for eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife.
kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in
Mitchell has the
film
it's like to be a stammerer: "I’d probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green, narrated by a stammering 13 year old." Mitchell is also a patron of the
Mitchell's first novel,
from tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the shortlisted for the
novels
the British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Influential People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist
libretti. Wake, based on the 2000 currently working on another opera, Sunken Garden, with the Dutch composer
I'm with
the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet. In 2012 his novel
The Summary of Cloud Atlas
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 1)
Letters from Zedelghem (Part 1)
about a "nightmarish cafe" deep underground where the waitresses all had the same face and ate soap. When he is done humming his tune, he asks if Jocasta ever made advances to Frobisher, who answers, after some embarrassment, "emphatically, no." As the summer comes to an end, Jocasta thanks Robert for "giving Vyvyan his music back." Robert agrees to stay on until next summer at least, as Ayrs asked, time enough to turn his dream music into a major symphony called Eternal Recurrence.
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 1)
assassin has been following her and pushes her car - along with Sixsmith's incriminating report - off a bridge, at which point the story breaks off.
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 1)
The fourth story is comic in tone, and set in Timothy Cavendish, a 65-year-ol gangster client. Cavendish's brother, exasperated by Timothy's endless pleas for financial aid, books him into a remote hotel, which in fact turns out to be a nursing home from which Timothy cannot escape. In the course of his adventures, Timothy briefly mentions that he is reading a manuscript from a prospective author entitled Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery, which does not impress him.
An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 1)
Cavendish and being utterly captivated by how it immersed her in a far earlier time. But at precisely the point where the protagonist suffered some sort of seizure, a student interrupts her and Hae-Joo, one of her mentors. He tells them Professor Mephi has been arrested, and that forty or fifty enforcers are looking for them with orders to interrogate Hae-Joo and kill Sonmi on sight. Hae-Joo exudes a sudden grim authority and reveals to Sonmi, while the image of Timothy Cavendish is projected upon him, that he is not who he said he was.
Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
Catkin steps on, and is poisoned by a scorpion fish; Meronym reluctantly gives her medicine. When Meronym later requests a guide to take her to the top of temples on its summit, Zachry reluctantly guides her. It is revealed that the 'temples' are in fact the ruins of the Zachry by telling him that their god Sonmi was in fact a human being, and explains the workings of the orison. It can replay Sonmi telling her story to the people. Upon their return, they go with the most of the valleysfolk to trade at Honokaa. But first Honokaa, then the valley, is invaded by Kona tribesmen who enslave the villagers. Zachry and Meronym eventually escape, and she takes him to a safer island. The story ends with Zachry's child recalling that his father told many unbelievable tales. The child admits that part of this one may be true because he has inherited Zachry's copy of Sonmi's orison, which he often watches, even though he doesn't speak her language.
An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
inspirational nonetheless. Her last wish before being executed is to finish watching the film she began before.
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
showing her pillows propped under Cavendish's blankets. Cavendish locks her in his room. Domino four has Veronica (one of the dissidents) sending Johns Hotchkiss on a wild goose chase looking for his mother. The dissidents get into Hotchkiss' big Range Rover and ram the gates. They are free of Aurora House, and are surprised that old Mr. Meeks, who hardly ever says a word, somehow found a way to join them. While Cavendish was away, the Hoggins brothers ransacked his office, but Cavendish's secretary Mrs. Latham captured the vandalism on video. She told them to steer clear of Cavendish, or that the footage would end up on the Internet, causing their probations to become prison sentences. The Hoggins brothers were forced to accept a cut on future royalties
on Knuckle Sandwich, the Movie. Cavendish has his secretary send an email to the
author expressing his interest in publishing the manuscript whose first half he has already read, and a few days later the postman delivers.
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 2)
Luisa Rey escapes from the sinking car and by detective work successfully locates a copy of Sixsmith's report about the Swanekke power plant, exposing the corrupt corporate leaders. She picks up her copy of Robert Frobisher's obscure Cloud Atlas Sextet and is astonished to find that she recognizes it, even though it is a very rare piece. At the end of the story, she receives a package from Rufus Sixsmith's niece, which contains eight more...
Letters from Zedelghem (Part 2)
daughter, and tries to end the affair with his employer's wife. While packing his things to finally leave the composer, who had begun to steal the young composer's musical ideas, he discovers the second half of The Pacific Diaries of Adam
Ewing propping up the bed. Frobisher secludes himself in a hotel to finish
the Sextet, and ultimately decides to kill himself. He is content with this decision
as he believes he has completed his best work, but mourns the loss of his one true love, Sixsmith. Before shooting himself, he writes a last letter to Sixsmith, and includes his Sextet and the second part of Ewing's Pacific Journal.
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 2)
