After reading chapter five to A prayer for Owen Meany, my feelings towards Owen has changed slightly after the scene with him during the Christmas Pageant. I really was shocked that he treated his parents in such manner. He dismissed his parents from the Catholic Church in front of the whole congregation as if he were their master. I was also disappointed with the parents, Mr and Mrs. Meany. How could they allow their son to talk to them like that? It's just plain rude and disrespectful. But then I started to see from a different view that maybe Owen was trying to protect them from the church, because in the previous chapters the author did mention that Mr and Mrs.Meany were in some type of conflict with the catholics that was an unmentionable tragedy.
So.... maybe he was trying to protect them, but I still think that he should have done it in a considerable way so that people would not think he was like a brat or something.
O--they weren't at the Catholic Church. Remember, they left the Catholic Church because of the "unspeakable outrage" which we have yet to identify.
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