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Monday, January 14, 2013

The Da Vinci Code

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25 comments:

  1. Hanna W
    Mrs. Holmes
    2nd Hour

    The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a book about Robert Langdon. He is a world known symboligist. Mr. Sauniere is the overall manager at The Paris Louvre, a famous art museum . Mr. Sauniere was murdered in the Museum. Mr. Langdon was in Paris for a seminar and to have dinner with Mr. Sauniere. Shortly after finding out Mr. Sauniere was murder, Lieutenant jerome Collet from the Direction Centrale Police Judiciaire showed up at Mr. Langdon’s hotels eager to see how Mr. Langdon could help. The setting is really important because Its in Paris and over in Europe art is more valuable and praised so its just makes the murder more suspenseful. When Mr. Langdon is shown a picture of Mr. Sauniere’s body, he is eager to help. Mr. Sauiere was shot once in the chest. He had a very slow painful death. During his last minutes of his life he stripped completely, spreaded all of his limbs into a star. he used his own blood as ink to draw 5 straight lines that intersected to form a five- pointed star. He also had a sharpie that only showed up in black light in his hand. once they recovered what he wrote on his chest.
    it wrote “ 13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5
    O , Draconian devil !
    Oh , lame saint ! “
    Now everyone is left to figure out why he wrote that on himself, if he spent the last minutes of his life writing it, if it was the reason he was killed. Its their job to find that out.

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  2. Elliott P.
    Mrs. Holmes
    2nd hr

    The setting of this book is in Paris, France. The setting is important because it gives you a better sense of the scenery and explains why all of the no named characters dialog is in french. The main characters so far are Silas and Robert Langdon. Silas is directly described as a broad albino man with white hair and red eyes. He is in a cult that requires strange ceremonies. Robert is a clever symbologist who is witty and intuitive. He studies ancient symbols and their meanings. He traveled to Paris France to give a speech and to have a meeting with the curator of an art museum.

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  3. Ethan S
    Mrs. Holmes
    3rd Hour

    In the Da Vinci Code the setting takes place in Paris, France at the Louvre art museum in present time. The setting of the book is important because it gives a better visual of what's going on and where it is so it can be easily visualised in your head. The story starts out with the museum curator who is killed and has to leave a secret message for the people who find him to figure out what he said before he dies. Then the next day when the body is found they call Robert Langdon who is a symbologist and has to figure out what the symbols are and the code to figure out what's he had to say.

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  4. Colin M.
    Mrs.Holmes
    3rd hr

    The setting of this book is in some art museum in Paris which I forgot the name. The setting is important because it is where the crime scene take s place in the book and where the strange code is written on the ground for Langdon to decipher. Some of the main characters in this book include Mr.Sauntierre Langdon, Silas, and Fache. Langdon is a symbiologist and is assigned the task of making sense of the symbols Mr. Sauntierre had written on the ground before his death. Mr. Sauntierre is the museum’s curator and was murdered but before he died wrote a code on the floor next to and around his body. Silas is the man who killed Mr.sauntierre and is in some kind of cult. Fache is the detective in Paris who awoke Langdon and is trying to figure out what happened to Mr. Sauntierre.

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  5. Kristen P.
    Mrs. Holmes
    5th hour

    The Da Vinci Code takes place in the city of Paris, France. Robert Langdon is a famous symbologist, which means he deciphers symbols and codes found on artifacts. Robert wakes up in the middle of the night to a police officer telling him that the man he was supposed to meet for drinks had been killed and they wanted him to examine his body. When he got to the museum, he saw that there were symbols drawn on his body with his own blood. So far, these events take place in a famous museum called the Louvre. I think the book taking place in France and at the famous museum is important to the story because the codes might have something to do with Leonardo Da Vinci.

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  6. Nick C
    Mrs. Holmes
    3rd Hour

    The book Da Vinci Code is a story set in Paris, France. Also Langdon a symboligist is woke up in the middle of the night by the Paris police asking Langdon to come and help decipher a message that was found in the muesem on a dead body. The police already knows that the victim (sauntierre) knew his killer because the Sauntierre invited the killer to his muesem and ran to a section of the art muesem where he could lock himself in and the killer would not be able to reach him, but the killer shot him through the bars and now a very important secrete was going to be lost. Sauntierre was the only one to know it. So he created a symbol and a code on his body and on the floor that he knew Langdon could decipher.

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  7. Kyra P.
    Holmes 4

    The setting of The Da Vinci Code is in modern day Paris, France at the famous art museum, the Louvre. The setting is important because the murder that the symboligist David Langdon is trying to solve was committed there. The main character is David Langdon. He is a renowned symboligist professor at Harvard University. He is highly intelligent and well aware of his surroundings. Another main character is Silas. He committed the murder as a part of the Christian group, Opus Dei. He has pale skin and white hair, with red eyes. He enjoys pain because he thinks it cleanses him of his sins. He is very religious. Another main character is the museum curator, Sauniere. He was the one who was murdered. Before he died, he wrote strange symbols on his body. He is trying to save a secret he knows. He is very loyal if he decided he could die for that secret.

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  8. Parker S.
    Mrs. Holmes 6th
    In the Da Vinci Code, in the beginning, it takes place in Paris, France. More specifically, at a famous French art museum. I think this will be important cause the curator who died there did something or knew something to be killed for. The paintings or artifacts could play an important part on why he was killed. The main character is professor Langdon, who teaches symbology. He is described as someone who is very smart and doesn’t believe in coincidence so is skeptical when he is pulled into this investigation. Someone who enjoys their job and is fascinated by the symbols and history he studies.

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  9. Andrew S.
    Holmes 6

    In the prolouge, an attacker named Silas hunts down the curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauniere. The curator reveals a false secret that will come into play later in the story. The novel begins with Robert Langdon, a Harvard Symbologist who was staying in Paris, France when he is suddenly awoken by the police. He is taken to the Musee de Louvre museum by the Judicial Police for his expertise in helping solve a case of homicide/suicide of the museum’s curator. Langdon meets up with Captain Bezu Fache of the Central Directorate Judicial Police and is led through the Louvre. The Louvre is important because this is the basis of the novel’s setting so far. I believe it will be important in the future when Langdon investigates the case.

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  10. Jeri T.
    Mrs. Holmes
    6th hour

    The setting of The Da Vinci Code is set in modern day Paris, mostly in the Louvre art museum. The setting of this book is important because it is where Jacques Sauniére was murdered with an important message that now no one else knows. The setting also may have something to do with where he planned to get murdered, the art piece could have something to do with the message that needs to be found. The main character of this book is Robert Langdon, he is a Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University. He is a man of facts and rationality, the way he thinks about how the French talk so proudly of the pyramid in front of the Louvre. He is also not a man of showing off because he does not like speaking at lectures.

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  11. Jon Z.
    Mrs. Holmes 6th
    The setting of Da Vinci Code is in Paris France. It is present day on a gloomy night, at the art museum the Louver. There is a murder that David has gotten involved in and has to solve for he does not get in trouble. The main characters are David Langdon how is the man how is a teacher at Harvard that teaches symbolists. The next is the bull or the chef of police. Next the albino man how is going around killing the protectors of a secret. Next is the teacher he tells the albino man what to do.

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  12. Madissen P.
    Mrs. Holmes 7th
    The Da Vinci Code is set in modern-day Paris. This setting means that many French names, words, and places appear such as the Louver. The Louver is an important place in the story because it is where a murder takes place and sets the plot. The main character is David Langdon. He is described as a studious man with dark hair. While in the Louver it is discovered that Langdon has claustrophobia due to falling down a well as a child. Langdon is very intelligent and passionate about his work. Another pivotal character is Jacques Sauniére. He is met in the prologue and is the murder victim.

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  13. Annie H.
    Mrs. Holmes
    7th Hr
    The Da Vinci Code is set in modern day Paris, France. In the prologue we read the murder of the Louvre Museums curator Jacques Saunière, who is found dead that night on the floor of the museum with a pentagram carved into his stomach, while he is laid out in a spread eagle. It turns out after being shot, Saunière was the one who carved the pentagram into himself and left behind an invisible, coded message that could only be seen under a blacklight. He did this in the hopes that someone would figure out the secret he died trying to protect. Robert Langdon is a symbologist professor at Harvard University. Langdon was supposed to meet with Sauniere the night of his murder, but is instead called in to help solve Jacques’ murder. While Langdon waited for Sauniere that night, little did he know Jacques was trapped in the museum after being shot by an albino named Silas. It is Silas’ mission to find the secret that Sauniere was keeping.

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  14. Elliott P.
    Mrs. Holmes 2nd

    It seems that there has been an internal conflict so far. Between the dead art curator Jacques Sauniere and his gran-daughter who is a cryptographer who works for the french police, Sophie Neveu. Apparently Sophie had not talked to her grand-father over the past 10 tears. As she recalled, she walked in on him doing an unspeakable act that had disgusted her so much that she decided to move out on her own. He tried to explain to her exactly what he was doing but she refused to listen. He had sent her many letters until she finally responded and told him to stop. And then it turns out he wrote the message for her.

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  15. colin m
    mrs holmes
    3rd hr

    there are multiple external conflicts in this novel. the main one being that the group opus dei as well as Langdon and Sophie are in a race to see who can discover the holy grail. There is also conflict in that the French police, London police, and opus dei want to capture Langdon and Sophie because of various reasons. Another external conflict is that a monk has been captured and put in the trunk of a car and is trying to escape and at the same time his boss is trying to find the holy grail and stop Langdon.

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  16. Ethan S
    Mrs. Holmes
    3rd Hour

    In the Da Vinci Code there are many internal and external conflict that you can find within the book. One external conflict is how Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu have to find out the message that Sophies grandfather (Jacques Sauniere) left behind and told them to find out what message he wanted to tell them. another conflict is that Sophie has a bad memories with her grandfather before he died and has ignored him by not reading any of the letter he has sent to her in the past until he was killed in the museum.

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  17. Kyra P
    Holmes
    4

    In The Da Vinci code there are many internal and external conflicts. An internal conflict is that Sophie Neveu and her grandfather had gotten into a fight many years ago and had never made up. She had caught her grandfather doing an unspeakable act. Her grandfather tried to explain and sent many letters to her, but she never spoke to him again. Now she feels a little remorseful for not listening to him. One of the external conflicts is that the French police are trying to arrest Sophie and Langdon and they are trying to run away. I think Sophie will come to peace about her grandfather after she finds out what really happened and what he was a part of. I think Sophie and Langdon will eventually shake the police and solve the mystery while clearing their names. The author has created a suspenseful and mysterious mood.

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  18. Nick C
    Holmes
    4

    There are many many conflicts in the Da Vinci Code. One of the internal conflicts is that Sophie Neveu had gotten into a fight with her Grandpa Around 10 years ago and she hasn't talked to him since, but now her grandpa has been murdered in his own muesem. She now fights the urge to go and listen to the message her grandfather had left her the night of his murder. One of the external conflicts is that the french police think Langdon has committed the murder and Sophie is desperately trying to help him escape the police that are now trying to capture Langdon and her self.

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  19. Jeri T
    Holmes
    6

    There are many conflicts in The Da Vinci Code. One of the external conflicts is that Robert Langdon gets a weird message from Sophie Neveu. He finds out that Sophies grandfather is Jacques Sauniere and he has been murdered in The Lurve. She tells him that he is under guarded observation with a GPS tracking device because he is the primary suspect in the murder of Sauniere. And now they have to find out what the message meant that Sauniere left for them to find. He sent her many letters in the past but she never opened them because they got in a big fight 10 years ago. Now that he is dead she feels a little guilt.

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  20. Andrew S
    Holmes 6th

    In the book “Da Vinci Code”, the main character Robert Langdon is called by the Judicial Police to investigate the murder of James Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre. In the middle of the investigation, a cryptologist named Sophie Neveu interrupts to tell them she had broken the code Sauniere had written on the museum floor in his last moments. She gets Langdon alone to tell him that he is going to be arrested for Sauneire’s murder because he wrote “PS Find Robert Langdon” along with code. However, Langdon was not shown this, and was fooled by the police into thinking he was there for advice, but he was really there to later be arrested. Sophie convinces him they have to leave before they are caught, and I predict they will escape the museum and go to the US Embassy, where Langdon will be safe.

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  21. Jon Zettwoch
    Mrs. Holmes
    6th Hour
    In The Da Vinci Code the Professor David Langdon is a symbology and he is being blamed for a murder that he did not commit. Langdon was going to have a meeting with the curator after his lecture on symbology but the curator never should up. Langdon was approached by the Captain of their type of FBI. Langdon and the Captain met at the crime scene of the curator. There Langdon didn’t know if he was here to solve the mystery or if he is the suspect for the murder. A girl he meets wants to help him get out of this sticky situation. Langdon saw the symbols at the crime scene and is trying to solve the mystery.

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  22. Meg H
    Mrs. Holmes
    6th

    There is an internal conflict in the book. The internal conflict it one with Langdon because he had to decide whether to trust Sophie when he finds the message on the answering machine of her phone. It tells him that he is in danger and needs to do exactly what she tells him. So that gives him very little time to figure out if he wants to trust her because Fache was standing right there watching him listen to the message
    Another conflict happened in the beginning of the book. It was an external conflict between Silas and Sauniere. The conflict was that Silas wanted to kill Sauniere in which he did succeed so Silas won the conflict.

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  23. Madissen P. Mrs. Holmes 7th hour
    In the Da Vinci Code there are many conflicts. One of these conflicts is between Langdon and Fache. Fache believes Langdon murdered Sauniere, the museum curator. Langdon does not know of the suspicion at first and when he finds out he becomes very stressed and nervous. Another conflict is between Opus Dei and an organization Sauniere belonged to. A member of Opus Dei was even sent out to retrieve information from and kill the remaining members of that organization. Opus Dei seems to be after a keystone of sorts but I have not read enough yet to know more.

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  24. Annie H
    Mrs. Holmes
    7th hour

    In The Da Vinci Code there are multiple conflicts one the main ones being the death of the Louvres’ curator Sauniere. This is an external conflict and sets up the plot of the entire book. Sauniere’s granddaughter Sophie along with Professor Robert Langdon is on a mission to solve Sauniere’s mysterious death. They do not know it yet, but they are in a race with a mysterious group called Opus Dei to find a secret long kept by Sauniere and his brotherhood. (81) Another conflict in the book is an internal conflict of Langdon. As the top suspect in Sauniere’s murder case he has to make the difficult decision of whether to run or not. He is not guilty, but if he chooses to run in hopes of finding the actual murderer, he will make himself look guilty dragging Sophie down with him.

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  25. Kristen P
    Mrs. Holmes
    5th Hour

    In the Da Vinci Code, one of the main characters, Sophie, has some struggles. When the police find her grandfather dead in The Louvre, she is torn. She had not spoken with her grandfather in quite a while because something happened with her family. When she sees the picture, she knows the code is meant for her. The internal conflict she goes through is the guilt of ignoring her grandfather’s calls and pleas for her to talk to him to let him explain. The external conflict is that she and Robert can’t figure out what the code means. Sophie is anxious to find out what the code means before the authorities find them.

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