There are unique 6 stories. Though seemly unrelated to each other, they describe the lives of individual, repeating the same mistakes, experiences over and over again. There is also linking bridges between each stories.
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1849-1936
Adam Ewing passed the journal to Robert Frobisher.
1936-1973
Robert's gay boyfriend Young Rufus Sixsmith pass the old letter to Luisa Rey.
1973-2012
Love at first sight, or subtle attraction between Dermot Hoggins (tom hanks, gangster, writer) and Indian party guest (Halle Berry), and unfinished loved affair between Luisa Rey and Isaac Sachs.
2012-2144
Sonmi 451 watched Timothy Cavendish biography with Hae Joo Chang in the hotel.
2144-2321
sonmi became a goddess, a religion.
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"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing" (1849)
Set free from black slavery, emancipation
"Letters from Zedelghem" (1936)
social cast, a nobody with an established physicist
gay, emancipation
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery" (1973)
fighting for human lifes, nuclear plant conspiracy
fighting for journalism, emancipation
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish" (2012)
runway from elderly home, emancipation
"An Orison of Sonmi 451" (2144)
exposition of cloning ethic, cannibalism
fighting for rights, pure blood and clones, emancipation
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After" (2321)
searching for hope, for a better life, emancipation
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there are connections between the characters each actor plays. e.g. tom hank acts as a villain in the pacific journal, and then karma strikes to be bomb on the plane in luisa rey mystery. then finally repay his karma debt by being the hero in the year 2321 story.
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epic quotes:
"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
- Adam Ewing
"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."
- sonmi 451
There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well
- Haskell Moore / Boardman Mephi
We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters
- Timothy Cavendish
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Everything is connected with every choices we make.