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Cloud Atlas The First Luisa Rey Mystery And Letters From...

Cloud Atlas: The First Luisa Rey Mystery and Letters from Zedelghem Time In the novel, Cloud Atlas, written by David Mitchell, there are five significant stories that intertwine with one another all in unique ways. Two of which in this novel, Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery and Letters from Zedelghem, both connect on there own unique levels. Both of the stories in this novel represent the importance of time, which seems to be one of the biggest themes throughout this novel. Both Half-Lives and Letters from Zedelghem represent this theme on their own and connect this idea together. These two stores connect to each other on multiple dimensions in the novel. These dimensions include the character Sixsmith’s role in both stories and how this relates to the importance of the theme of time in each of the two stories. In Letters from Zedelghem the character Sixsmith’s role was quite different from the role he played in Lusia Rey’s story. In this particular story the character Sixsmith is presented as Robert Frobisher’s lover. In contrast, it seems Frobisher’s character has little to no regard when considering â€Å"love† for Sixsmith. Frobisher writes, â€Å"Ayr’s wife and I are lovers. Don’t alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense† (Mitchell 68). It seems as if Frobisher thinks his actions will be forgiven because feelings are not involved. Sixsmith reads all these letters that Frobisher sends, yet does not take a stand for himself. From the reader’s perspective, Sixsmith seemsShow MoreRelatedCloud Atlas And The Horrible Ordeal Of Timothy Cavendish1551 Words   |  7 Pageshis novel Cloud Atlas to explore this complicated concept gravely. Even through the way the novel is laid out (in layers with only half of each story given at fir st), each story noticeably intersects and interacts with shared characters – either in the flesh or the reincarnations of them. Similarly, this layout exhibits an attempt at postmodernist ideas as well as metafictional ideas as the stories and ideas constantly overlap even when they are in different time frames. In Cloud Atlas, the stories

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