End of Cloud Atlas…

Let me start by saying I am so happy we are done with this book.  I really just could not stand and although I think Mitchell had a good idea, it was not executed as well as it could have been.  I just could not stand the narration of six different characters.  I also think because these six stories were so incredibly different it was hard to really get into all of them.  I feel like people seem to stick to one type of book and storyline and with six  different story lines going on it was destine that most people would not enjoy all six stories.

I think that Mitchell’s theme of what he was trying to say was very good the whole thing just did not come together the way he would’ve liked to think.  I definitely think that he had this great idea of humanity and how our socitey as a whole truly depends on each other.  I think the last three pages of this book really sums up how he feels about people as a whole.  Selfishness is really not going ot get us anywhere as a nation.  If every person in this world was selfish and only worked at getting what they want, we would not succeed.  I think that he tried to capture this whole idea of how evil and sneaky people were as well, especially in the Luisa Rey sections.

I think sections such as Luisa Rey was one of the only sections i could get into because I found it the most interesting and realistic.  I found that something like this not only has happened, but could happen.  For examply during that whole reading of the section it reminded me so much of Erin Brockevich.  Even though a bit far fetched it really was not.  Erin Brockevich, which was a completely true story was this woman who found out the truth about a big powerful company poisoning the people who lived around it and used the water supply.  That movie truly showed how manipulative big business really can be.  How business would do anything to cover their own ass, and not really worry about the people it’s hurting.  I think sections such as the Luisa Rey one really did demonstrate a great deal about society and how manipulative our world can be, as sad as it can be.

I just felt as if this book could have been completed with one main storyline, instead of all these different story lines.  One big storyline with one of two narrator and a constant storyline throughout in my opinion, would have had the same outcome.  At least it’s done and we do not need to read it again. I just feel as a class it was the one book that we had the hardest time talking about and really creating a discussion on, because I know a great deal of the time I did not even know what was really going on.  I feel like all the different storyline really confused me at times as well.