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child, where codes and ciphers were the lynchpin tying together the mathematics, music and languages in which his parents worked. When he was young Brown
spent hours working out anagrams and crossword puzzles, and he and his siblings participated in elaborate treasure hunts devised by their father on birthdays and
holidays.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter, Brown attended Amherst College. Brown spent the 1985 school year abroad in Seville, Spain, where he was enrolled
in an art history course at the University of Seville.
In 1991 he moved to Brown graduated from
Amherst in 1986.
Hollywood to pursue a career as singer-songwriter and pianist. To support himself, he taught classes at Beverly Hills Preparatory School
but in 1996, Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer.
The Da Vinci Code was released in 2003 and received immediate attention
from critics. It was the book that achieved lasting literary success and popularity for Dan Brown. All of his books are about thriller. He used his experience about
codes in writing his novel. We can see the same theme in Digital Fortress, one of the novels written by Dan Brown.
The story takes place in Paris. It starts off with the murder of Jacques Saunière one of the Grand Masters of Priory of Sion. Sauniere’s body is
positioned as “The Virvituan Man”, Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting. Around his body, there are codes written with his own blood. There is a message
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for Sophie Neveu, who is his granddaughter and Robert Langdon. Sauniere knows that Langdon has skills in deciphering codes. Therefore they are chased by the
police since the police think that Langdon murdered Sauniere. Later on in the story, Neveu and Langdon get help from Sir Leigh Teabing, a British historian.
Langdon and Neveu start to sort through the riddles, and they find a trail that leads to the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, and the secret society, the Priory Sion.
The Priory Sion think that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. Here they find out that Sauniere was a member of the Priory. Jacques Sauniere wants to
tell this secret to Sophie Neveu, but their relationship getting worse since Sophie Neveu saw her grandfather having a ritual sex. Since that time, she had not met
her grandfather. At the end of the story, Sophie Neveu finds her long-lost grandmother and her brother.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of four sections. The first is subject matter. It deals with the subject of the study. The second is approaches. It deals with the literature
approaches that I use to analyze the novel. The third is data collection. It deals with the sources that I use in analyzing the study. The fourth is procedures. It
deals with the steps in completing the thesis.
3.1 Subject Matter
The subject matter here is a novel that I choose to be analyzed. It is entitled The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. This novel is about 489 pages and
published by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc New York in year 2003. This novel originally written in English and was translated into 44 different
languages. This novel tells a story about Robert Langdon, a writer and also lecturer.
When he came to Paris, he was accused as the murdered to Jacques Sauniere. Jacques Sauniere wrote a mesage which led Sophie and Langdon to find a series
of riddles and anagrams. Here the secret behind the work of Leonardo Da Vinci came up. Leonardo Da Vinci has purpose in making the painting such as
Monalisa, Madonna of The Rock, The Last Supper. In the end of the story, they find Sophie’s long lost grandmother and brother.
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3.2 Approach
This study uses the psychological approach. It discusses human motivation, personality and behavior patterns of a person in literary work that
built his or her characters. The psychological approach supported the writer to reveal the Jacques Sauniere’s motivation in leaving a message before he died. It
could be realized, since as proposed by Rohrberger and Woods, the psychological approach involves various theories of psychology to explain the character’s
personality in a story. Each character’s behavior could be referred to a psychology of human being.
3.3 Procedures
It is a library study; therefore I did the primary and secondary source. I use Dan Brown novel entitled The Da Vinci Code as the primary source.
The secondary sources of my study are the materials that support the evidence for the problem formulation study. They are dictionaries, encyclopedias,
text books, some newspaper and magazines articles both from the library and the internet.
My first procedure of this study was deciding the topic. It was begun with excitement of studying motivation. After that I had to find the ideal literary media
that could be best to describe my topic. It is a must to understand the topic before, during and after the study,
therefore, I would not get lost in the comprehension more books, e-books and the articles that support both again from the library and the internet simply can help it.
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It is also important to read the novel carefully and over again. I also underlined some important lines to me and wrote some notes on the novel that would help me
in the analyzing. After the analyzing is completed, I create a teaching learning sets design
that associated to the topic using the novel as implementation of teaching English skills.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
To answer the problems stated in the first chapter, I first would like to examine the character of Jacques Sauniere and Sophie Neveu. Then I would like
to discuss Jacques Saunire’s motivation for writing his last message.
4.1 The Character of Jacques Sauniere
According to Henkle 1977: 97 the characters are divided into major characters and minor characters. In this novel, Jacques Sauniere is the minor
character. His presence is only Sophie’s side of the experience. Though he is a minor character, his influence is important in this novel.
Jacques Sauniere is seventy six years old man. He is the guard of Louvre Museum in Paris, where there are some art of Leonardo Da Vinci. He is a
Frenchman. He is a member of Priory Sion. As a member of Priory Sion, he worships goddess. A Priory Sion is a secret community which worshiping to
goddess. This community also believes that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married.
Jacques Sauniere was considered the premiere goddess iconographer on earth. Not only did Sauniere have a personal passion for relics relating to
fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Sauniere had helped the Louvre amass the
largest collection of goddess art on earth-labrys axes from the priestesses’ oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs
resembling small standing angel, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirit, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being
nursed by the goddess Isis. 25 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
