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Hae-Joo Im seems to be a typical postgrad at a university called Taemosan. He’s friends with fellow postgrad Boom-Sook Kim. In fact, however, he collaborates with Boardman Mephi as a member of the Union, a resistance group that opposes the current government. Mephi encourages Sonmi~451 to get to know Hae-Joo better, and this leads her to get involved with the Union too. When enforcers raid the Taemosan campus, Hae-Joo goes on the run with Sonmi, getting her to safety so that she has enough time to write a manifesto. Later, when she’s in prison, Sonmi claims that Hae-Joo was an actor who was really playing a role on behalf of the government, but the truth of Hae-Joo’s motives remain ambiguous, since his character disappears from the story. Hae-Joo’s character explores complicated questions about political protest, raising the question of which forms of resistance are effective, and which are just for show.
Hae-Joo Im Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Hae-Joo Im or refer to Hae-Joo Im. 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 7
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The economics of corpocracy. The genomics industry demands huge quantities of liquefied biomatter, for wombtanks, but most of all, for Soap. What cheaper way to supply this protein than by recycling fabricants who have reached the end of their working lives? Additionally, leftover “reclaimed proteins” are used to produce Papa Song food products, eaten by consumers in the corp’s dineries all over Nea So Copros. It is a perfect food cycle.
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We see a game beyond the endgame. I refer to my Declarations, Archivist. Media has flooded Nea So Copros with my Catechisms. Every schoolchild in corpocracy knows my twelve “blasphemies” now.
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Hae-Joo Im Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Hae-Joo Im or refer to Hae-Joo Im. 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 7
Quotes
The economics of corpocracy. The genomics industry demands huge quantities of liquefied biomatter, for wombtanks, but most of all, for Soap. What cheaper way to supply this protein than by recycling fabricants who have reached the end of their working lives? Additionally, leftover “reclaimed proteins” are used to produce Papa Song food products, eaten by consumers in the corp’s dineries all over Nea So Copros. It is a perfect food cycle.
Related Characters:
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
We see a game beyond the endgame. I refer to my Declarations, Archivist. Media has flooded Nea So Copros with my Catechisms. Every schoolchild in corpocracy knows my twelve “blasphemies” now.
