Angels and Demons

The novel I chose to reflect upon was Dan Brown's 710 page Angels and Demons. In this novel, Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist, is called upon when a scientist is killed with the word “Illuminate” branded onto his chest. He and the scientists daughter, Vittoria, must find a stolen vile of anti-matter before midnight or it will explode, causing the destruction of Vatican City. During this time, the new Pope is to be elected and the four candidates have gone missing. They are to be killed before the anti-matter explodes and each one will have an element, either water, fire, air, or earth, branded onto their chest. They must follow the clues left by the Illuminati on their "Path of Illumination". This takes them to four Roman landmarks where they can expect to find each candidate.
|Quote                                   |Background Information                 |Personal Reflection                       |Global Reflection                         |
|"Since the beginning of time,           |Langdon and Kohler are in the CERN main|I believe this is true and is still so     |Just as the quote reads, this has been   |
|spirituality, and religion have been   |complex and Kohler is explaining how   |today. I think that our very existence can|true since the beginning of time. Before |
|called on to fill in the gaps that     |they are trying to find the beginning   |only be "filled in" by religion because   |science existed religion was all we had. |
|science did not understand." (31)       |of their existence and the meaning of   |science is not able to definitively       |For everything we cannot explain, we have|
|                                       |life. Langdon thinks this is a         |explain our creation.                     |religion to explain it for us. Such as   |
|                                       |spiritual question and Kohler connects |                                           |the fact that no one knows for sure how   |
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