The Da Vinci Code takes its readers on one insane ride. Throughout the novel, questions are raised and are left unanswered for a while, leaving the reader feeling tantalized. Just when you think you see where it's going, you find out the hard way that you truly have no idea! Now, as we near the end of the novel, we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Finally, some questions are answered!
Robert Langdon, our hero, explains to Sophie that this secret--the thing that the Church is trying to cover up--is not what most believe it to be. The Holy Grail, often depicted as a chalice of some sort, is not in fact a chalice, but documented evidence of something so devastating that that Church would go to any length to protect its secret (I'm beginning to feel like Dan Brown now).
At this point in the novel, Langdon and Sophie have one major clue with them on this search for the Grail: a key. On this key is a symbol that Langdon, being a cryptologist, recognizes as something similar to the symbol of a society named "The Knights Templar". To add to the many twists of this story, the Knights Templar were the known protectors of the Holy Grail, and the last it was seen was over 600 years ago. It has since been relocated by the novel's other secret society, the Priory of Sion. Leonardo Da Vinci was deep into the Priory of Sion, and Langdon suggests that wherever the Grail currently resides, Leonardo knew where it was.
What was your prior knowledge, if any, of the Holy Grail before now?
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Any guesses as to where the story will go next?? I could try, myself, but I've seen the movie, and I'm interested as to what you think!
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HA! that's how they get to you! they keep you on the tip of your toes until the end of the novel. it it then that they reveals the secret within. It is just like a good movie when everything comes together like a piece of puzzle.
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