Dan Brown- The Da vinci Code

The story begins in France in the Louvre museum where Jaques Sauniere, the teacher of the “Prioriato de Sion” was killed. But that is not all because this crime hidden a dangerous secret. Jaques Sauniere had the task to protect this secret so he transmitted his granddaughter Sophie Neveu a serial of clues.

In the story Sophie get some help from a researcher symbols, Robert Langdon. This was called to his hotel in Paris for a detective called Bezu Fache, who suspected of Langdon as a possible murderer of Sauniere. This detective tries to make Langdon confess but Sophie helps him to escape from the Louvre and from Fache.

Finally when Sophie and Langdon were alone, she told him about her grandfather and the strangest clues that he left her before died. So they discover a lot of important things and finally are found an object called "Criptex". After this they were to visit to a friend of Langdon called Leigh Teabing. This man was a passioned for the past and he knows a lot about that mysterious secret.

The secret is about Jesus and Maria Magdalena and their relationship. The story said that Jesus wasn't a sacred man quite the opposite, said that he was only a man and he had had a wife and a daughter. This was the most important secret of the Prioriato de Sion. Sophie and Robert discover the existence of another group called "Opus Dei" who tries to destroy the clues of this secret. In other words they have had to find the tomb of Maria Magdalena and find to the descendant of Jesus.

To conclude, this book was based in many studies, Dan Brown made a big research about this topic and the book makes you think that all is true. In my opinion I have a lot of doubts about the religion and their stories but this topic is too big to talk about in this post so I finish this I have to recommend because is a really good and interesting book.

Well in my opinion I have to say that is true here is not as strong as it is in other Latin American countries even we don’t feel patriots and only think these days like a “one more holiday”. Besides a lot of young people don’t respect the native people.
In the first place have to say that I learn a lot of this people in the school but I don’t remember very well about their culture. But I know the essential things. In addition to this I have to say I feel terrible the treatment that actual Chileans give to the native people is very annoying.
Secondly I have to mention that I can’t put in their place, because I don’t know too much about their culture, only the basic and the antique things like their games, their rituals or their organizations, only things that I learn in the school and now they are a bit different.
On the other hand I think that this people are Chileans too the only difference is that they are more connected with the nature than us, and that is a good thing because we are lose a lot of this connections with animals, nature and our origin. Apart from that, I feel proud to be Chilean when local people helps each other or with the campaigns where people gives money to help to the children or the old people.
On the other hand exist some facts that make me feel ashamed to be Chilean, things like the delinquency, some political decisions, the bullying on the schools, the drugs traffic and sometimes the police abuse. That is very annoying.
To conclude and taking everything in consideration we totally lost our Chilean culture because I think that people have to feel Chileans everyday not only in the national holiday or when Chile plays some important match of football or tennis. We are Chileans and we have to accept that everyday.

Los escarabajos vuelan al atardecer

This book is one of my favorite books. I had to read it in the school and I fell in love with his story. The story narrates 2 stories. One of them is about the beautiful love story of Emile and Andreas, but their story finished in tragedy for a curse of two Egyptian sculptures and the other is about 3 kids: Jonas, Annika and David who discovers a key thanks a beetle and discover the mystery about their life and tries to find these sculptures to finish this curse.
This book is very interesting because is locate in a country house in two different periods of time. One of them is located in XVIII century and the other is located in nowadays. On the other hand David is playing a game of chess with a woman called Julia Jason Andelius who is the owner of the country house and who heard the story through David, and she tries to help them telling him things of the past.

In the end of the story, the three kids discover a lot of things about Andreas and Emile, and form different opinions about the couple. David wins the game chess and discovers that Julia dies a lot of time ago and she left him the chess and a message. On the other hand they only find one of the two cursed sculptures and they found a golden beetle instead of the sculpture.

In my opinion the writer managed to catch the attention and the interest of the reader so I think that is one of the common characteristics of every writer. So, Maria Gripe obtains a victory with me. I love her literature; the way that she writes is very likely. I think that one of their goals is writing for all people not only adults, for children and teenagers too.

The main lesson of this book is that loves transcend even the death.