Looking for Mary

At the very beginning of the semester, the 1st book I read was "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. "The DaVinci Code" is a fictitious book about 2 young companions that are trying to find the location of Mary Magdalene in order to protect it from the Catholic Church. Of course, the Catholic church isn't really stirring up a plan to find the carcass of Mary, it's just the storyline :D


When Ms.James assigned the class our final blog, I was quite flabbergasted, because I thought it would be hard to find a *Radio Diary* that tied into The Odyssey, The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, To Kill A Mockingbird, Deception Point, or Romeo & Juliet. As I skimmed through the titles of the diaries, I gazed into the computer screen, and read 'Looking for Mary.' It sounded like a kidnap story, so I clicked on it, hoping that it had any kind of similarity to any of the books I have read.


When I clicked on Looking for Mary, I was very pleased that it did indeed fit into my book, "The Davinci Code," very nicely. As I read the transcript of the whole Diary, I was very intrigued with the information that I read. The article talks about how people today search for the Virgin Mary, and some people all over the regions all over the United States, believe that they have seen the Virgin Mary....alive. This story was interesting to me, and it reminded me of the chase in "The DaVinci Code"


Both stories talk about religious people searching for the body of Mary Magdalene. In "The DaVinci Code," the search for Mary Magdalene is intense, because if Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu don't find the location of the Mary, the Catholic church will have the chance to get rid of the only remains of the true 'royal blood line.' In the article, by Beverly Donofrio, she talks about how she followed religious people that were on the hunt to find the live 'Virgin Mary'. Supposedly, people go to random spots, for instance the Mojave Desert, and they get to worship the 'Virgin Mary,' whom walks around in a white robe, and hugs and kisses everyone in her sight.


So whether you're ever looking for Jesus, Odysseus, Romeo, or the Virgin Mary, I wish you the best of luck, because in both of these stories, the hunters always find what they're looking for.