My favourite fictional character

Im a huge fan of Dan Brown’s books especially his biggest masterpiece of all time, ‘The Da Vinci Code’. The main character of this book is Robert Langdon, a professor of religious iconology and symbology at Harvard University. He’s the main character for all three of Dan Brown’s bestselling books, ‘The Da Vinci Code’, ‘Angels and Demons’ and ‘The Lost Symbol’. The fictional professor was created by Brown as a fictional alter ego of himself. Thus, Robert and Dan had something in common. Both the author and the fictional professor was born in Exeter, New Hampshire United States and they attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Professor Robert Langdon is not just some ordinary character in Brown’s books, he has an eidetic memory and always wear a mickey mouse wristwatch that his parents gave him on his ninth birthday. In ‘Angels and Demons’, he was teased by another female character, Vittoria Vetra for wearing the watch, and he told her that the Mickey Mouse reminds him to be young at heart. Robert had a bad childhood experience when he was 7 years old. He fell into a well and got stuck in there for what almost seem like an eternity. As a result, he developed a fear of enclosed spaces. (Claustrophobia). His fear was brought up by the author in all his three masterpieces. Robert Langdon is famous for his problem- solving mind and his intelligence. He is described as a tall and well-built man due to his frequent laps in the swimming pool at Phillips Exeter Academy in prep school and he even played water polo at Princeton University. He teaches Religious Iconology and the fictional field of Symbology at Harvard University. His boldness clearly depicted in ‘Angels and Demons’ when he risked his life to save Vittoria Vetra and he even followed the catholic priest Carlo Ventresca to a helicopter in order to get rid of the lethal antimatter. I can deduce that without a unique character like Robert Langdon, there wont be a story to tell.