Friday, July 23, 2010

The last of Owen Meany

God was always present in this novel from the beginning to the end, giving clues, foreshadowing what's going to happen next. At Tabby's wedding Owen gave her a Gravestone, which was used as a door stop this gift had her date of death on it. Shockingly Tabby died from the baseball Owen hit, John says at the wedding"the hail is as hard as a baseball" foreshadowing Tabby's death. Owen died in Vietnam saving children in which he had envisioned years ago at a Christmas pageant playing the ghost of Christmas future. The role he had was given was given by fate he played the ghost of the future and foretold his own future. Then the clue when Owen opened Reverend Wiggins desk with a blank expression finding out who Johns father was(he wrote in the diary where the proof rest's). I realized all of this when God, or so John thought, spoke to him in Owens voice finally revealed the identity of his father. In my opinion I think God sent Owen to possess the Reverend because Owen truly is a Christ figure.

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