Friday, July 9, 2010

Owen Meany

On page 220, At the bottom of the page, it writes "She was his slave, at his command. And so together we raised him out of the hay". I interpreted this metaphor as the hay being Owens Grave, and they lifted him out of it. The Hay could represent his grave because that is where The Little Lord Jesus is put to rest, if it was Death, it would be an eternal rest, but in Owens case, eternal was curtailed. This theory of mine also connects to Chapter 9, "The Shot", on page 520 in the second paragraph. "THE GRAVE AS LITTLE OF MY BED". These words came from Owen, he is realting his grave to the hay, which is the crib/bed for baby Jesus.
In High School, Owen began to write on the daily newspaper, called The Grave. And to John, Owen became known as The Voice of the Grave. It's ironic that Owen has appreared in alomost all these deaths, and he then is given then tittle as The Voice of The Grave, especially by his friend John who has been at almost all the death scenes excluding Lydia's. The deaths weren't caused by his own hand, but for example Sagamore the dog died because Owen threw the football and they chased after it. Sagamore led the group. He ran out into the middle of the street and and he was hit by the diaper truck. It's almost as if Owen told them to follow his abnormal, other worldly voice into the Graveyard into their casket. After they have died and it's time for the funeral, it's always Owen to make the Gravestone. He's had enough expercience with death(like Hester said: "With Owen it's all about Death") to eventually perfect, even become better at it than someone who has been in the business longer than he has, His father. Maybe it was just destiny. Everyone's good at something, and Owen majors in Death! This signifies that Owen is clearly "God's instrument" he's leading all these people to heaven, they have all done good. Tabitha, was promiscuous, but a character in the bible was too, Tabitha was just like Mary Magdalene. Owen had no other option but to "kill" them.

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