During a person's lifetime, that person may embark upon many different types of journeys. In a piece of literature, the journey motif is a distinctive idea, or theme that is elaborated on. The main character, John Wheelwright, from John Irving's, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Jake Barnes, from Earnest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, both encounter a journey through the mental, physical, and emotional events in their lives.
             In these novels, the main characters recall their memories from the past and tell a story based on the events in their history. Firstly, the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, tells the life of a boy named John Wheelwright. He shares his life and opinions about the death of his mother when he was only eleven, his best friend Owen Meany who helped him to believe in God, and his family and friends that influenced the person that he became. "I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."(Irving 1) In the novel, The Sun Also Rises; Jake Barnes tells a story about the special events the occurred in his life at the age of 39. He shares his thoughts on love with a woman named Brett "It's a very funny, and it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love", and a friendship with mainly three men who he travels to Spain with in the summer time. In both novels, each character shares in detail the events in their lives, and their thoughts on their life's events.
             The physical journey relates to the body, as distinguished from the mind, and concerns with matter and energy. Secondly, the main character John tells all about his adventures with his best friend Owen Meany. They played baseball, went to Sunday school, played in John's attic in his Grandfather's closet, searched through boy's rooms at the Gravesend Academy, and spent all their other childhood memories together. John especially shared his stories about visiting his cousins. "My mother and I would travel up north t...