The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

By Dan Brown

For my book report I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code has one main character and many supporting characters. The main character is Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist and professor. He is a tall American with coarse black hair and blue eyes. He is very intellectual and very modest. He is a quick thinker under pressure and doesn't give up easily. He is careful with his words.

The most important supporting character is Sophie Neveu. She is a cryptologist the and granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere, the murder victim. She has blond hair and green eyes and is French. She is very independent and commanding. She is also very intellectual, fluent in two languages, and good at breaking codes. She is a very determined person and does not give up with out a fight. She is also very quick witted. She is a very good liar, very convincing. She likes to take matters into her own hands.

The second most important supporting character is Leigh Teabing. Sir Leigh Teabing is a avid researcher of the Holy Grail. He has bushy red hair and hazel eyes. Both his legs are in metal braces. Leigh is a sly Englishman, who is obsessed with discovering the hiding place of the Grail. He is a very good actor and loves to exaggerate. He is never at a loss for words.

Another main supporting charater is Bezu Fanche. He is the officer who is leading the search for the murderer and suspects that it is Langdon. Fanche is a large cold man who is desperate to find this culprit. He greatly needs this case to be solved because his reputation is on the line here. He made a few too many mistakes and needs to restore his reputation or he risk losing his job.

I also believe that another important supporting character is Jaucques Sauniere. He is murdered in the first chapter, however throughout the book Jaucques Sauniere affects the story line dramatically. Jaucques Sauniere is man who really believes that you need to work for what you get and nothing should come easily to you. He is an amazing code specialist and when he hides something it will stay hidden unless he wants you to find it.

The Da Vinci Code is about the journey Robert and Sophie take to find the Holy Grail. It begins in the Louvre Museum of Art where Jaucques Sauniere who was a curator in the Louvre. He was also the master of a secret organization called the Priory of Sion. His identity as the master is not revealed until later in the story. His murder was the result of his identity being exposed. Langdon is charged with his murder and this is where the story really begins.

Sophie and Robert are left clues by Sauniere which eventually lead them to the hiding place of the Holy Grail. In this quest they request the help of a old friend of Langdon's, Leigh Teabing. Leigh and Robert reveal to Sophie the true nature of the Holy Grail. In the book, the Grail, in fact, is not a chalice, but has three parts, a person, a line of descendants, and the sangreal documents. It is revealed that Grail is in fact Mary Magdalene. She was the wife of Jesus and bore the fruit of his womb. Many of the clues that were necessary in order to find true meaning of the Holy Grail were referenced to in the paintings of Da Vinci. The whole Christian religion is based on the fact that Christ was a divine prophet. Christ was made to be a divine prophet after Jesus' death when the Pagans and the Christians were fighting with each other over religion. In order to solve the problem, people portrayed Christ as a divine prophet in order to make Christianity look like the one and only religion. But with this came consequence. All Jewish men are given the task to marry. Jesus being a good Jew did marry. After had been changed to be referred to as a divine prophet, he no longer could have taken part in mortal activities. They then had to destroy her significance in the life of Christ and the significance in the churches history. The church then cast her as a prostitute after she had fled in fear of her life, and that of her unborn child.

The Priory of Sion's job is to protect the descendants of Mary Magdalene and the Sangreal documents which describe the life of Christ as it really was. They also were said to protect the corps of Mary Magdalene. Jaucques murderer belonged to a secret society called Opus Dei. They are a very conservative reactionary society in Catholicism. They are also trying to find the Holy Grail.

After this information has been revealed to Sophie the three of them set out to find the Grail. They are betrayed by Leigh who was acting almost as a double agent for Opus Dei yet he was really