POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

Don Fabian St, Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City

Email: quezoncity@pup.edu.ph Phone: (63 2) 952-7818, (63 2) 428-9144

Da Vinci Code:
A Reaction Paper
By: Dan Brown

Submitted to:
Prof. Esther S. Gulmatico, PhD

Submitted by:
Shymrock D. Saylon
GAS 12 – 1
 Codex Leicester

An ancient word of wisdom

frees this scroll
and helps us keep her
scatter'd family whole
a headstone praised by
Templars is the key
and Atbash will reveal the
truth to thee.
Dan Brown, best-selling author of 'The Da Vinci Code' was born on June 22, 1964. Brown grew

up as the eldest of three children in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter

Academy, a decidedly up-market school where his father was employed as a math teacher, in

1982. His mother, Constance, was a professional musician principally involved in performing

sacred music. Although Dan Brown actually attended local public, (i.e. open-enrollment),

schools until the ninth grade he nonetheless lived with his family on the Exeter campus and

participated in a college related life that was also informed by christian values- singing in the

church choir and attending church camp.

What sets Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code apart from other novels is not the number of

websites and social media pages devoted to it; many novels benefit from such dissemination of

information about it. No, what sets Brown’s novel apart from 99% of all the other novels ever

written which have given rise to websites devoted to them is the sheer volume of discourse that

attempts to treat it as though the author claims it is it not a novel at all, but more akin to

something that might be found amongst Biblical apocrypha.