Opinion about some quotes from Angels and Demons
• “[Illuminati] he stammered, his heart pounding. It can’t be.
>> This quote is very important for the plot development. In the book someone is killed… and Robert Langdon is called for help because this dead person got written in his body some kind of mark that said “illuminati” in an ambigram form (which means that you can turn it both sides and it will read the same)
• “Langdon and Vittoria stood alone now outside the double doors that led to the inner sanctum of the Secret Archives”
>>In this quote I can make a connection with my own life. When I was reading this part of the book… I remembered how you feel when you are about to enter to a place that you have never met… or worst, to a place you are not allowed to enter… for example when I was like 6 or 7 years old I was in blockbuster… and I saw a door and entered it… this door was the place where they stored all kind of things… and I knew I couldn’t enter… but when you are little… you are always curious. The only difference with my connection and the quote… is that Langdon and Vittoria did had permission… but instead entering to the Secret Archives of the Vatican must be something scary.
• “There was no more terror. No pain. Not even the sound of the racing wind. There was only the soft sound of lapping water, as though he were comfortably asleep on a beach.”
>> This happens just before Robert Langdon jumped out of a helicopter. It is an interesting quote because I like the way Dan Brown uses and plays with the words creating amazing sentences… creating great descriptive paragraphs… and managing to create the best books ever. In this quote he could just have said: “He jump and fell with not a bit of pain. But he always decides to use description.
• “[You are well aware,] the Camerlengo said, [that our four preferiti are not present in conclave at this moment. I ask, in the name of his late Holiness, that you proceed as you must… with faith and purpose.
>> This is a plot development quote… where I don’t know if everyone but I was shock. The preferiti means the favorites to be elected as popes… and when the four of them where missing… it was a shock… but a bigger shock was reading that a pope was going to be elected even with the preferiti away.
• “Glick smiled. [So you’re saying that last night, when the cardinals chanted Carlo Ventresca’s name together, they actually elected him Pope?”
>> This is a character and plot development. First character development because readers learn that Carlo Ventresca was actually Pope… like for 15 minutes before he abruptly committed suicide. And as well pope development, because after knowing everything Ventresca had done… we were glad to know, he suicides and was not mandating the Vatican… anymore.
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