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Symbolism In Sonmi's Cloud Atlas

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In terms of content, Cloud Atlas is an eclectic reading of history of humanity as the collective history of contemporary audience. It is well summarized in “Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' after” which has a central position in the book and is somehow recommencement of civilization after its glory and end. The historical events of Clouds Atlas happen somewhere else and Mitched calls them to his book to form his reading of history. For example, he has two versions of slavery and abolitionism in Adam’s and Sonmi’s stories. In Adams’s story Autua is the representative of the well-known traditional slavery. In Sonmi’s story she is the representative of the fabricants who are slaved by purebloods and symbolizes the modern slavery. Sonmi’s story
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