THE DA VINCI CODE

To: Mam Attiya Siddique

MIRZA FARRUKH ASKARI

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18-11-2017
Introduction Of the Writer:
Daniel Gerhard Brown author of The Da Vinci Code was born on 22 June 1964. He grew up
as the eldest of three children in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Philips Exeter
Academy, a school where his father was employed as a math teacher in 1982.
In 1985, Brown went to Seville Spain, to do an art history course from the university of
Seville. Brown then attended Amherst college, graduating with a diploma in English and
Spanish in 1986 and spent several next years trying to set up himself as a singer-songwriter
and pianist. He started creating effects with a synthesizer and launched a children’s cassette
entitled Synth-Animals. The cassette acclaimed first rate fulfilment, promoting
approximately some hundred copies. His somewhat preppy and slightly reserved way
contributed to an ordinary incapacity to gain enough appreciation as a overall performance
artist to justify continued efforts to set up himself professionally. In 1993 he decided to go
back to New Hampshire and secured a teaching job, in English, at Phillips Exeter Academy,
Blythe Newlon accompanied him.
Dan Brown puts his writing career down to reading a copy of Sidney Sheldon's "Doomsday
Conspiracy" which he had found on the beach whilst on holiday in Tahiti in 1994, saying, "I
finished the book and thought, 'Hey, I could do that'."
To pursue writing professionally, Brown commenced working on ‘digital fortress’, his first
thrilled-based novel. He went on to write 'Angels and Demons' and 'Deception point'. Within
the early pages of 'Deception point' there seemed an Acknowledgement in which Brown
thanked "Blythe Brown for her tireless research and innovative input." 'The Da Vinci Code'
which seems additionally to have benefitted from such "studies and input" was published in
March 2003 and sold 6,000 copies on the first day - going to the pinnacle of the the big
apple times' best seller list in the first week of publication. All his Books Angels and Demons,
The Da Vinci Code, The lost symbol and Inferno have a primary character of Robert Langdon.

Character List:
Manuel Aringarosa  -  Bishop of Opus Dei.
Sister Sandrine Bieil  -  Nun and keeper of the Church of Saint-Sulpice
Marie Chauvel  -  Sophie’s grandmother and Saunière’s wife
Bezu Fache  -  The captain of the French Judicial Police. Nicknamed “the Bull,”
Robert Langdon  -  The male protagonist of the novel.
Sophie Neveu  -  A cryptologist with the French Judicial Police, and the female protagonist of
the novel.
Jacques Saunière  -  The curator at the Louvre, and Sophie’s grandfather. His murder sets off
the chain of events that takes place in the novel.
Silas  -  A monk of Opus Dei, and the murderer of Jacques Saunière. 
Leigh Teabing -  An historian and the antagonist of the novel. Sir Leigh Teabing is a knight, a
Royal Historian, and an extremely wealthy man.

Story Review:
The mystery thriller is a style replete with potholes where the unwary writer can stumble
over and over, bringing their novel to a upset halt earlier than the reader ever reaches the
end. There may be problems with characters who are more cliché than practical, plot
gadgets that require an inordinate quantity of suspension of disbelief, obvious records that
everybody can confirm except for the character who desires to understand it the maximum,
critical statistics ignored of the tale after which conveniently positioned on the stop to offer
for the marvel twist, and no longer all plot traces being introduced to a a success conclusion
by the point the story is over. No longer simplest ought to the author avoid those traps,
however he should provide a protagonist whose pores and skin we are able to with ease
inhabit, a thriller that demanding situations our intelligence, and enough plausible twists
and turns to keep the reader turning the pages. The Da Vinci Code by means of Dan Brown
does all this just proper.
What happens in the Da Vinci Code is an art expert Jacques Sauniere is discovered
murdered in the Louvre, having somehow discovered the strength in his final
haemorrhaging moments to set up his body in the form of a well-known art work and leave
a chain of codes around the building. Robert Langdon is a Harvard Professor of art history
and religious symbology. He has spent a life-time exploring religions and theology and
explaining the use of their symbols in art and history. He's a veritable gold mine of
information about the Catholic church, pagan religions, and religious mysteries. As the Da
Vinci Code starts, he is in Paris to provide a speech and to fulfill with Jacques Saunière, the
curator of the Louvre, even though he is blind to why Saunière wants to meet with him.
This thriller specializes in Robert Langdon, who's awakened within the middle of the night
by the French police to assist them recognize the data and symbols Saunière left at the
homicide scene. Langdon is their top suspect and they want to see if he inadvertently gives
incriminating information before they arrest him.
they're interrupted on the homicide scene with the aid of Sophie Neveu, a police
cryptologist who claims to have broken the code of the apparently random numbers left
subsequent to the corpse. Unknown to Bezu Fache, Sophie is also Saunière's granddaughter
and he or she is positive the clues he left behind have been intended for her and that
Langdon isn't only innocent, but the key to helping her understand it all. She manages to
assist Langdon fake an break out from the Louvre which sends Bezu Fache away long
enough, so Langdon and she can examine the clues left behind by means of Saunière.
That quest leads to clues, puzzles, and riddles that link back to an historic society tasked
with defending the reality about Jesus Christ and reveal the biggest mystery in Western
civilization. As they joust with authorial research - about the divine proportion in nature and
the opportunity that the Mona Lisa is a painting of Leonardo himself in drag - a thug from
the secretive Catholic agency Opus Dei, following orders from a sinister bishop, is also trying
to solve the meaning of the imaginative corpse in the museum.
The plot turns are suspenseful, the mysteries and their solutions clever, even inventive in
some instances. that is a real nail-biter. The plot here revolves round an intellectual belief
that Jesus (yes, the Christian Jesus) was married to Mary Magdalene, who was in fact
pregnant with Jesus's child at the time of the crucifixion -- a truth supposedly known by the
Church and protected up. The "thing" each person is being chased and killed for, is the name
of the game of the region of the holy grail, a place acknowledged to many who belonged to
a secret society throughout history, which includes Leonardo Da Vinci. No, the holy grail is
not, beneath this theory, the cup Jesus drank wine from over the past Supper, but
alternatively a metaphor for Mary Magdalene. She is the "cup" that held Jesus's toddler: she
is the true holy grail.

My View:
While the book is a piece of fiction, Dan Brown has done an exhaustive quantity of research
to make sure that his motives and depictions of history and the ancient societies which
might be featured in the book are as correct as possible. there is no scarcity of critics of
Brown's studies or his depictions of activities. whilst you introduce proof and arguments
which, if true, shake the foundation on which the entire religion of Christianity is primarily
based, there are certain to be skeptics.
In Brown's defense, he is a creator first and important, not an art historian or theologian. In
protection of Brown's studies, he isn't always a heretic who concept up the ideas he
describes. There are lots of resources that agree with the model of records and activities
defined within the Da Vinci Code.
As a mystery, it genuinely kept me studying at factors, but I never got as lost in the story as i
might have preferred. i would only rate the thriller as O.k. and the finishing as somewhat
disappointing. I discover the short chapters in Dan Brown's books exciting. I think they make
it feel extra fast-paced as the chapters quick jump to unique areas of the story. I additionally
just like the truth that the frequent chapter breaks make it smooth to discover a stopping
point while not having to stop within the middle of a chapter.

Refrences:
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/dan-brown-1124.php
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview17