Interlocking Plot Elements And Multiple Genres And Time Periods Of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas And The Twyker/Wachowski Adaptation

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Analysis of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas Novel as adapted by Tykwer and Wachowskis
Cloud Atlas is a novel that is written by David Mitchell. The novel contains six different stories and in each of the stories has its characters, therefore, bringing the total number of main characters in the whole story to six. It can also be observed that the characters do not stay in the same place, but rather they stay at the different parts of the globe. The "nesting doll" structure is one of its greatest features that makes it absorbing to read. The unique structure of the novel made it to appear unfilmable.
The adaptors of the film Tykwer and Wachowskis made two major decisions that lead to the success of the story in the film. They first tweaked the structure of the book with the earliest history or the first story called “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing”. They proceed on to cut each of the remaining 5 stories at half way point. The structure continues until the final story of Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Evr’rythin” which is told as one piece. After the conclusion, the book appears to be advancing chronogically by telling the second half of each story until the end of the story with Adam Ewing again who was seen at the beginning of the story. Tykwer and Wachowskis adopted a complex structure and as such they mixed all the six stories together. It would be boring to sit down in a theater and begin watching each of the stories separately.
Luisa Rey is seen as a real character in the film. In the film, Timothy Cavendish who is a publisher receives the novel, Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery. It is the third story in the novel of the Cloud Atlas. The story has been written by Hilary V. Hush. It is very difficult to arrive at a conclusion whether the story that is narrated and shown in the film about Luisa Rey is fiction. There is a reality in the story even though it might be fiction. The truth that is found in narration coincides with the truth about the various issues that take place in the real world. For instance, in some part of the book, he writes "Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if neighbors share your conscience." The above words sound like a warning to the reader about how real the world is. There is no way that we can be able to face the world if we do not stand up and confront all those who are trying to dominate over the other people either in our society. The film goes further to inform us about Luisa Rey who now a columnist investigating the murder of a scientist so that she can uncover the facts that are hidden in the nuclear plant where the scientist worked. Luisa goes through various troubles, but at the end of the day she comes up with the truth about the murder.
Another twist of the structure of the nov...