Angels and Demons #3

Angels and Demons – Entry #3

I am so excited about the fact that clues are being revealedㅡclues that are potentially answers to my questions that I have had. Langdon and Vittoria found the clue that answers where the Illumnati is located and where they will be killing the four cardinals. It is already evident that the Illumnati does exist in the novel. Furthermore, there is suspense created in the book because there is only four hours left until the antimatter explodes in Vatican City. As I have been reading the novel, I naturally read fast in order to find out whether Langdon and Vittoria will be able to find the antimatter and prevent the explosion. I have made many guesses about what will happen next based on foreshadowing, but I am uncertain about the climax and resolution. My prediction right now is that Langdon and Vittoria will confront the Illumnati for sure. I can predict this from the text because Langdon and Vittoria found the clue, Galileo’s writing, which Langdon analyzes that the clue they found will lead them to where the Illumnati are. Frankly, I do not completely comprehend what the clue is and how the clue will help them, but the discovery they made in the archive makes me believe that from now on, the novel will be about Langdon and Vittoria facing the Illumnati.

However, the Dan Brown does not only write about Langdon and Vittoria’s point of view. Once in a while, there are short chapters about the Illumnati’s point of view. Whenever I read those short chapters, they make me feel worried and angry. The most recent chapter that I read was written in the Illumnati’s point of view from chapter 53. What is happening is that the four cardinals are individually saying things in their vernacular language. They are shouting out loud in the dark phrases like “Help me”, “Let us go”, “What do you want”, and “God, help us”. As I read and imagined the cardinals desperately saying these words, it made me worry about their deaths, if it really happens. At the same time, I felt resentment towards the killer, or the Illumnati, because the Illumnati cruelly shut them up and said, “Now then, who shall be first?” I detest the killer’s evilness and brutality. I cannot believe what the killer is about to do; he or she is about to conduct his plan of killing the four cardinals one by one. As I read this part, I felt hatred about the Illumnati, and I sincerely wanted to help rescuing the cardinals if I were one of the characters in the novel.