In John Irving's novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving illustrates the idea of friendship through the characters of Owen and Johnny, which is developed throughout various chapters. ... In Owen's foretelling reverie, Owen envisioned a helpless Johnny as a result of Owen's death, and discovered a resolution to the dilemma. ... Owen gave Johnny his most prized possessions, his baseball cards, and Johnny presented Owen with his treasured armadillo. ... Owen was aware that the move had a special purpose in his life but Johnny never comprehended what Owen meant until the event tr...

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Reading a novel or riding a horse is not fun anymore. ... The author's main message in A Prayer for Owen Meany was that of religious faith. ... Owen Meany is a person who is unbelievably complex. ... An important part of A Prayer for Owen Meany is set in the time period of the Vietnam War. ... Nearly every significant event and character had some religious affiliation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Symbolism At the beginning of the novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving, we are introduced to a character named Watahantowet. ... Throughout the novel, Johnny Wheelwright and Owen Meany refer back to this historical figure. ... The instrument of death was a baseball; the very first baseball that Owen Meany ever hit. ... At least not to Owen. ... Throughout the novel, Johnny and Owen refer back to Watahantowet, and in many ways Owen was just like him; Owen was handicapped by his voice, size and his inability to communicate. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"NOW I KNOW WHY MY VOICE NEVER CHANGES," is a quote from John Irving's novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. ... Similarly, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, predestination, in the form of foreordained events, dictates the path that the story takes and how the story will end. ... " "DOONG SA," Owen Meany told them. ... Both the play "Oedipus Rex and the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany have main characters who realize the importance of religion and faith. ... Owen's faith is also an essential subject in the novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Watahantowet/ Totem "an armless man some said it was how it made the sagamore feel to give up all that land"(8) Symbol used throughout the novel to show how people feel to loss things/people. ... Owen Meany's infatuation with is shows how he is in touch with nature, Even with everything else is taken away (trees), granite will always return to the earth. Tabitha/Tabby Wheelwright "My mother was not a brazen character my mother had such a tranquil, modest nature"(13). ... (armless totem) Owen intended to say with the armadillo was this Owen was saying that he was appo...

• Word Count: 595
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School