By: Dan Brown

Dan Brown• Born June 22, 1964• Was constantly solving

codes and puzzles as a child

• Went to Amherst college• Moved to Hollywood to

pursue a singer/songwriter career

• Made 2 CD’s, Dan Brown and Angels and Demons, which led him to writing

Protagonist:Robert Langdon

• World renowned Harvard symbologist

• Specializes in religion, but does not follow one religion

• Has written many books, including one on the Illuminati, which leads to his quest to help save Vatican City

•The Illuminati is a secret, ancient brotherhood that is the most powerful underground organization ever. •Started when scientists, like Galileo and Bernini, started to question the Roman Catholic church•Have always had conflicts with the church•Church killed anyone who had ties to the secret organization.

•They had disappeared for centuries, but are now making a comeback.

Vittoria Vetra• Daughter of Leonardo

Vetra, a scientist a CERN who was killed in the beginning of the novel

• Scientist who specializes in biology and physics

• Helped her father research and create the extremely destructive antimatter

Hassassin• Is of middle eastern

descent and has a satanic lust for women

• Believes he has been hired by the Illuminati to destroy the church

• He kills Leonardo Vetra, all four preferiti, and Commander Olivetti

• He is eventually killed by Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra when they push him over a balcony

Exposition• CERN is a Swiss research

facility that houses the greatest scientists in the world.

• Leonardo Vetra, one of CERNs best scientists had been working on a top secret project called antimatter, but was murdered and branded with the sign of the Illuminati

• Max Kohler, the director of CERN, finds Vetra dead and contacts Robert Langdon, a Illuminati specialist, to help solve the murder.

•It is revealed that the Illuminati also took a canister of immensely destructive antimatter, which destroys everything in its path at midnight.•They fly to Vatican City when they get a call saying the canister is hidden somewhere in the city with a security camera watching as it counts down to the explosion.•The pope has recently died so the papal conclave is meeting to elect a new pope, but they discover the 4 preferetti are missing.•Robert and Vittoria meet with the Camerlengo who tells them to start following the path of the Illuminati searching for the preferetti in hopes that they will find the canister & assassin too.•At each stop, Robert finds a cardinal murdered by one of the 4 primordial elements.•When they finally run into the assassin they learn that he is being told what to do by a leader of the Illuminati, ‘Janus’, The assassin manages to kidnap Vittoria, but Langdon finishes the Illuminati path and frees her•After they kill the assassin, they return to the basilica to find Kohler has come to have a private meeting with the Camerlengo and they fear Kohler is ‘Janus’•After they hear the Camerlengo screaming from being branded with an Illuminati symbol, they barge in & kill Kohler, but right before he dies, he hands Langdon a tape that ‘will explain everything’

Climax• With time running out, they evacuate the basilica, but when

the Camerlengo is leaving he has a vision from God revealing the location of the antimatter.

• He rushes back in and beneath the Basilica to find the canister.

• Him and Langdon take the canister onto a helicopter, where the Camerlengo parachutes safely to the ground and the antimatter explodes in the sky. Everyone believes Langdon died, but he managed to jump and fell into the ocean.

• He then returned to the College of Cardinals, who were going to make the Camerlengo pope, and showed them Kohler’s tape, which revealed that the Camerlengo was ‘Janus’ the whole time.

Falling Action• In one final twist, it is

revealed that the Camerlengo was the son of the late pope, conceived by artificial insemination.

• The Camerlengo feels so much guilt and grief for killing so many people that he soaks himself in oil and burns himself in front of a crowd of onlookers at St. Peters square.

Resolution• The conclave

elects a new pope and Robert Langdon recieves the “Illuminati Diamond” as a gift

Setting

• Present Day in Vatican City and around Rome

Themes• New World Order– An effort to bring the entire world under

one government for global peace• The Use of Nuclear Weapons– Groundbreaking science being used

badly• Science Vs. Religion– How and why are we here?

My Rating: 8• Angels and

Demons is exciting, fast paced, and is based on things that really exist, which makes it more believable, but I think it has too many twists sometimes.

Science Vs. Religion• How did we get here? Were

we created or did we evolve randomly? Are we the product of purposeful intelligence or are we merely the end result of countless cosmic accidents?

How It Began..

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM005RLmpi8&feature=related

Gravitationalist. "Religion vs Science (2 of 2)." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 13 Apr. 2007. Web. 28 Feb. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com>.

Evolution

• Implies that the intricate design of all things is a result of random chance and impeccable timing

• Evolutionists believe the universe exploded out of nothing in the “Big Bang”

• (Cline Austin, NY Times)

Creationism

• Implies that the intricate design of all things must have a Designer

• Creationist believe everything was put on the earth to serve a purpose

Stem Cell Research• Stem cells are cells

that can transform into any other type of cell that has been killed by injury, diseases, or cancer

• The richest source of stem cells in an embryo, before the cells begin to

• differentiate "What is Stem Cell Research?" Popular Issues - AllAboutPopularIssues.org. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org>.

Religion believes this is awful because we would be doing God’s

job in creating

Science believes this is great because we could cure a huge

range of medical problems

PROS• Reduced risks of

transplantation• Could give great

insight on the basics of the human body

• Could Cure– Alzheimers– Birth Defects– Spinal Injuries– Parkinsons– Heart Disease– Diabetes"Stem Cell Research-Pros and Cons." Scientific

Method - Understanding Science, Research and Experiments. 2008. Web. 28 Feb. 2010. <http://www.experiment-resources.com>.

CONS• It’s messing with

human life• We’re trying to play

God• Can lead to cloning

in the future• We are not yet sure

of all possible outcomes and risks "Stem Cell Research-Pros and Cons." Scientific

Method - Understanding Science, Research and Experiments. 2008. Web. 28 Feb. 2010. <http://www.experiment-resources.com>.

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