![]() ![]() It would have been interesting and structurally coherent had the author forgone the spiritual connection between the characters and written the novel as novel within another novel. The only other connection is the influence of art or fiction on the lives of the protagonists be it through journals, music, film, etc. If left untied the stories would not have had anything to do with one another except for the occasional crossover in characters. As Cloud Atlas is so unconventional in structure a strong theme was needed to cohesively tie the main characters together. It is not a strong or coherent theme but the only one which is consistent throughout the sections. Regardless of where Mitchell drew his inspiration for the various aspects of reincarnation in the novel, it is the primary theme which connects the characters together.
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