Ramon San Jose May. 2, 2005 Period-4 Showers SSR Analysis
1.) The main setting takes place in the beautiful, elegant, religious, Vatican City. The story pretty spread out throughout the Vatican in churches, especially St. Peter's Basilica, museums, the pope's hidden passageways, offices, and a lot of other interesting places. Vatican City is a beautiful city where an abundant amount of faithful living Catholics are located. This city is also where Christianity originated. In the middle of the entire city lies the most famous church in the entire world, St. Peter's Basilica. St. Peters is where a lot of important plot factors happen, so it is an important part of the novel. Also, there are an
Another conflict is that the Illuminatus will kill four cardinals who are the likely candidates for the next pope. The Illuminati wanted to reveal themselves with a bang, and they decided to reveal themselves by killing the preferiti, the four cardinals that were the best candidates to become the new pope.
7.) The story starts off with Robert Langdon awakening from a dream by a phone call by Maximilian Kohler, the director of CERN. The phone call was concerning the murder of Leonardo Vetra with an ambigram of the word Illuminati charred onto the victim's chest. Then Robert flew over to CERN and educated Kohler of the knowledge he knew of about the brotherhood, the Illuminati. Moments after, Leonardo Vetra's adopted daughter, Vittoria Vetra arrived wanting to see her father. Kohler told her she couldn't in order for CERN reputation to stay at a high level. Then Kohler and Langdon filled her in with the Illuminati and asked her what they might have stolen from CERN. Vittoria brought them to their underground lab and revealed her and her father's antimatter creation, the opposite of matter, and demonstrated the power of the antimatter when in contact with any matter. The antimatter had burst into a bright light and obliterated any matter within the blast area. Later, she found that their biggest creation of antimatter that could destroy everything in a mile radius, had been stolen. Then Kohler received a call from the Swiss guard concerning