Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including oppression, resistance and reincarnation. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of David Mitchell
• Presentation of Cloud Atlas
• Summary of Cloud Atlas
• Character study
  • The Protagonist
  • The Oppressor
  • The Accomplice
  • The Victim
• Analysis of Cloud Atlas
  • Genre
  • Style
  • Greed and oppression
  • Resistance
  • Humour and irony

About Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas tells the story of six different individuals – or of six different incarnations of the same soul, depending on your interpretation of the novel. Beginning in the 19^th century, as a notary from San Francisco travels through the Pacific Ocean, and eventually imagining a possible post-apocalyptic world set in the distant future, Cloud Atlas examines the way each protagonist’s actions create a ripple effect and affect the lives of those living dozens or even hundreds of years after their death, whether through something as simple as a love letter, or as significant as the inspiration for a revolution.

About David Mitchell

David Mitchell is an English writer who was born in 1969. After studying literature at university, he worked in Japan as an English teacher for eight years before turning his hand to writing, publishing his first novel, Ghostwritten, in 1999. Mitchell is known for his use of complex and original narrative styles, often shifting between seemingly unconnected narrators within a single book. Several of his novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and his 2004 novel Cloud Atlas was adapted for the screen by the Wachowskis in 2012.