Formative Journal # 3

On Monday (April, 4th), we all had a chance to do some silent reading and the people in my group either finished the novel or only had a few chapters left to go. Afterwards we quietly worked on the worksheet where we found individual quotes from the book. This week, we really focused on imagery, so the quotes had to incorporate poetic devices such as metaphors, and similies to help build on the imagery used in this novel. This eventually lead to our discussion about how this imagery is used to really develop the themes, as well as the many layers of this novel. Though we did not have as much time as we would have liked to discuss everything, what we did get to talk about were some of the major points as this novel has such an immense amount of imagery.

One part of the novel that we focused many of our quotes on, were from the climax of the story. Robert Langdon, and Katherine Solomon have been tricked and are captured by Mal'akh. Katherine has been tied up, and Robert has been placed inside a coffin like box that is slowly filling up with fluid.

We didn't really focus on the characters too much this time, as we mostly focused on how the imagery especially helped with the mood, and the setting. It also helped express the different layers that were occuring during these past few chapters. Considering the events that were happening it is easy to see that as a first layer it conveyed scenes and moods of evil and darkness. The imagery really helps build on the why's. Why is this evil and darkness being portrayed. Piece by piece the story was finally coming together, and Mal'ahk's reasonings started to become unveiled. If we peel another layer off, I believe that emotions would be next and Mal'ahk's raw feelings of frustration, and hatred really shine through.
On Wednesday, Katie and I were not present for a majority of the class due to Chimo.