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Pa Bailey
Adam Bailey is Zachry’s brother who gets kidnapped by members of the rival Kona tribe and forced into slavery. He is a different character from Adam Ewing, although their similar names seem to offer a bookend, since Adam Ewing is from the first story chronologically and Adam is from the last story chronologically. During a pivotal moment, Old Georgie convinces Zachry to kill a sleeping Kona who is the same age as Adam would be, but Adam’s fate never gets revealed. The incident represents how, metaphorically, all violent acts hurt people who under different circumstances might be a brother or ally.
Adam Bailey Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Adam Bailey or refer to Adam Bailey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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So hungrysome was my curio, I held it again, an’ the egg vibed warm till a ghost-girl flickered’n’appeared there! Yay, a ghost-girl, right ’bove the egg, as truesome as I’m sittin’ here, her head’n’neck was jus’ floatin’ there, like ’flection in moon-water, an’ she was talkin’! Now I got scared an’ took my hands off the sil’vry egg, but the ghost-girl stayed, yay.
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List’n, savages an’ Civ’lizeds ain’t divvied by tribes or b’liefs or mountain ranges, nay, ev’ry human is both, yay. Old Uns’d got the Smart o’ gods but the savagery o’ jackals an’ that’s what tripped the Fall. Some savages what I knowed got a beautsome Civ’lized heart beatin’ in their ribs. Maybe some Kona. Not ’nuff to say-so their hole tribe, but who knows one day? One day.
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Adam Bailey Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Adam Bailey or refer to Adam Bailey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
So hungrysome was my curio, I held it again, an’ the egg vibed warm till a ghost-girl flickered’n’appeared there! Yay, a ghost-girl, right ’bove the egg, as truesome as I’m sittin’ here, her head’n’neck was jus’ floatin’ there, like ’flection in moon-water, an’ she was talkin’! Now I got scared an’ took my hands off the sil’vry egg, but the ghost-girl stayed, yay.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
List’n, savages an’ Civ’lizeds ain’t divvied by tribes or b’liefs or mountain ranges, nay, ev’ry human is both, yay. Old Uns’d got the Smart o’ gods but the savagery o’ jackals an’ that’s what tripped the Fall. Some savages what I knowed got a beautsome Civ’lized heart beatin’ in their ribs. Maybe some Kona. Not ’nuff to say-so their hole tribe, but who knows one day? One day.
