In Angels & Demons, Robert Langdon and Vittoria are in the Vatican City during Conclave. The setting affects the plot because there is a giant bomb in the city that could destroy the whole area and kill everyone and destroy everything inside. If they were to be located in some desert with no people around, the only plot would be to run away from the bomb. Since the setting is the Vatican, there are thoussands of people that could die including the most infuencial religious figures in the world, the cardinals. Not only would lives be lost, but all the sacred documents and historical sites would be demolished. This impact brings suspense and tension to the book because it is a stressful situation knowing that everyone in Rome could die.
"Even from up here he could hear the rumble of activity in the Sistine Chapel below-the uneasy chatter of 165 cardinals. One hundrued sixty-one cardinals, he corrected. For an instant the camerlengo was falling, plummeting toward hell, people screaming, flames engulfing him, stones and blood raining from the sky. And then silence," (Brown)
This quote dementrates the stress and horror the main characters are taking in during this event. The time and place of this conflict makes the book a suspensful and crazy story.
When you are stressed, does the time and place of the conflict affect the play out of the story?
Wow! you wrote this so descriptive that it made me want to read this book.
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