Post 2

This post is again about morals and doing the right thing. I am quite frankly not surprised that this came up again because there are so many controversial huge decisions being made. This example comes later in the book when the head of security at Vatican City is confronted with a huge conundrum; he has antimatter inside the Vatican somewhere which will detonate in 4 hours and destroy the entire country and some of surrounding Rome. On top of that, it is the night that the cardinals elect the new Pope and the 4 most favored cardinals to become the next pope were kidnapped by the Illuminati. He has to make a hard decision on whether to try and capture the Hassassin and attempt to save the four Preferiti or save the Vatican and the other 161 cardinals and try to find the Antimatter. He initially goes with the latter because finding the killer is too far-fetched because they would have to station Swiss Guards at every church in Rome. However, when the protagonist Robert Langdon, a famous symboligist, code cracker and art-lover, discovers where each cardinal will be murdered, the head of security changes his mind, hoping the Hassassin will solve all their problems. After continuing my reading, I think that morality is defiantly a theme in the novel. Therefore, I stick with my prior conclusion: morality has been debated by the characters for a dozen or so pages, which is a large amount if you think about it. From the book, I have learned that morality is dependant on the circumstances and the individual and what options they are presented with.

Angels & Demons by Dam Brown