9. The Call to Action

     The call to action for our hero 'Robert Langdon' in the book is called to action by a disturbing message which he alone recieves and is asked to do something which he doesn't understand. The action which calls him is when he sees his friend's hand, cut off. It is tatooed in a way that invites him to join an exclusive club. Then he is sent on a perilous journey in which failure will cost him his live, and his friend's. This call to action is incredible, and shocking, and gripping, and makes you want to know what's going on as the world is changed, and shocking secrets are revealed. This intense part, invites you to read more and more.

"Peter Solomon's severed right hand was standing upright, the flat plane of the detached wrist skewered down onto the spike of a small wooden stand" (The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, 50)
  

8. Ordinary World

Free Mason Symbol,

     Robert Langdon's ordinary world is not actually ordinary at all. His world is full of secrets and mysteries, although that is to be expected from his job. He works at the Smithsonian Institute, and teaches about societies with secrets (not secret societies), like the Free Masons. [insert awesome picture here]  (Nabokov. "Freemason." Wikipedia. Jan.-Feb. 2008. Web. 02 Dec. 2011) But it is what is real for him. Although soon, that is twisted and changed into a much worse situation.
      Robert fears to leave his ordinary world, but has no choice considering the circumstances. He feels most comfortable doing what he does best, teach. But that is taken away and he is thrust into a journey of unpredictability and danger when his friend's life is in the hands of a mad man.