Defining Moment in a Prayer for Owen Meany

While onstage for the final performance, Owen, as the ghost, approaches the grave of Ebenezer Scrooge. One of his esteemed roles, the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol, becomes, in actuality, more than simply a role in a play. This event reveals to the reader the first recognizable instances of the main underlying theme of this story: Owen"'"s representation of Jesus Christ. In the play, a supernatural occurrence reveals and predicts Scrooges future death. Being later backed by many more examples and instances, Owen"'"s foreseen death is the starting point, defining the rest of the story, and introducing the reader to the main theme of the novel. Based on these events, we realize, as a reader, that Owen has spiritual views on life and his faith is strong. It takes upcoming events for us to begin to realize that Owen Meany is so much more than a mere boy with strong beliefs.

As can be expected, Owen is extremely shaken by this divine experience and manages, only later to briefly describe it to John, our narrator. An example of this is when Own '"'scares away'"' the angle of death from the bedside of Tabby. He had '"'DISTURBED AN ANGEL AT WORK, he had UPSET THE SCHEME OF THINGS'"'(p. In return, the angel assigned the death of Tabby Wheelwright to Owen himself, later being accomplished by an '"'accidental'"' baseball.

This comparison continues to grow stronger through the entire book, with each event strengthening the ties between Owen and Jesus culminating in the eventual discovery that Owen was a virgin birth. 102) He claimed that if something were thrown off course or disrupted, it would find a way to occur anyway.