Sonmi-451 Timeline & Summary

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Sonmi-451 Timeline & Summary

  • In the not-so-distant future, Sonmi-451, a fabricant, is being interviewed before her execution.
  • Manufactured to work at Papa Song's—the fast-food joint of the future—Sonmi watches as her fellow fabricant Yoona-939 ascends (gains knowledge) and becomes unhappy with her existence.
  • Yoona is killed when she tries to escape. Then Sonmi ascends, but she has someone help her escape.
  • Dr. Aloi Mephi brings Sonmi to Taemosan University, where is she put in the care of Boom-Sook Kim.
  • When Boom-Sook almost kills Sonmi, Mephi expels him and lets Sonmi live on her own. She reads all day, attends classes, and gains vast knowledge. But she hasn't actually lived.
  • Enter Hae-Joo Im, a grad student who shows Sonmi around town.
  • When Unanimity enforcers show up to take custody of Sonmi, Hae-Joo reveals himself to be working for Union, a pro-Abolitionist group that has been declared an enemy of Unanimity.
  • Hae-Joo and Sonmi go on the run, and Hae-Joo shows Sonmi a variety of horrible things, like the fact that dead fabricants are recycled, and their body parts made into food.
  • Sonmi agrees to become the figurehead of the Abolitionist cause, and she writes her Declarations.
  • Then Sonmi is captured by Unanimity and set to be executed.
  • For her final wish, Sonmi desires to watch a movie—The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish.