I strongly recommend you to see some movie criticizes; it will help you and gives you great ideas about the methods of analyzing a movie (or book)

You can analyze and a criticize a book in different aspects,

1- The style of narration

2- Dialogues

3- Descriptions

4- Being worth reading or not

5- Remarkable aspects of the book

6- Weaknesses in the book

7-…

1- “The style of narration”

Have you ever read Harry Potter?

If so you can clearly see differences in the style of narration between the books. I’m not going to say everything about it, but I give you some clues to help you about this issue.

In Harry Potter, JK Rowling narrates the story completely honestly, in every page; she gives you some information about the events and doesn’t hide any fact. But in DaVinci’s code, the writer tries to distract you sometimes and gives you some information that leads you to misjudge characters. For example, I’m sure you think that there is something wrong with that French Agent (I don’t remind his name, bezo Fash or something!) and almost near the end of the story you realize that you are dead wrong! it originates from the style of narration, because writer intentionally gives you some right facts in wrong situations, specially when you’re suspicious to someone.

in Harry Potter, from the first book you know there is a problem with “Snape”, and then in book 6 you realize that you were right (I haven’t read the last book yet and this conclusion might be wrong!) ,but in DaVinci code , facts are told in a way that leads you in a wrong prediction about story-line and in the end of the story you suddenly realize that you were wrong.

2- Try to point to remarkable aspects of the book, for example you can write a lot of pages about great description in the book about places, religions and other stuffs and say how it makes the book worth reading.

3- You can write about the speed of the event occurrence, events occur so fast in the book that makes it quite exiting, but sometimes writer describes things so much that you feel bored.

4-have you ever seen a movie criticize?

Try to write about some weak or strong scenes in the book, and discuss why you think so. For example one of the masterpiece scene in the book is when the writer describes the crime scene (in the beginning of the story) because you can exactly imagine the scene. You can also point to the weaknesses in the book (in your point of view)

I hope it can help you.

If you have any question, email me. [email protected]

Study Guides:

These links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Da_Vinci_Code/Da_Vinci_Code01.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/davincicode/

http://litsum.com/da-vinci-code/contents.php

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-da-vinci-code/

Plot Overview

In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas apprehends Jacques Saunière, the museum’s curator, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Saunière tells him, Silas shoots him and leaves him to die. However, Saunière has lied to Silas about the Grail’s location. Realizing that he has only a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Saunière paints a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and drags himself into the center of the circle, re-creating the position of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. He also leaves a code, a line of numbers, and two lines of text on the ground in invisible ink. More…..

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/davincicode/summary.html

If I can help you with the other book then let me know.

Good luck.

In my opinion it paled in comparison to his other books. Angels & Demons was much more engaging, in my opinion. The Da Vinci code, for me, wasn’t as good as I was expecting. With all the media hype, I was really looking forward to reading it, but I was disappointed.