A Prayer For Owen Meany Character Analysis
The character study essay I wrote for A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving clearly demonstrates my knowledge of John Wheelwright and the text as a whole. I was able to dissect his personality, his relationships, and how he reacted to different conflicts. John Wheelright is not the main character, or protagonist, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, he is the narrator, which made it much more of a challenge to determine his personality. I had to understand the conflicts of the story and how John responded to them in order to determine his personality traits. For example, I determined he was curious because he seemed to feel almost as much resentment as sadness when his mom died. He felt this resentment because he had always been curious as to who
his biological father is, and Tabby died before she ever revealed the truth John. It is obvious that John values his relationship with Owen Meany more than anything else and he could be remembered by John for several reasons. I used John’s statement, “I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany” (1) to support my claim that the most important thing John got from
Owen was his faith. In the novel, John appears to be stuck in the past . I used the quotes “Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” (34), and “O God-please give him back I shall keep asking You!” (617) to show that John still feels the sorrow of his past. My in depth analysis of John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany shows that I have a great comprehension of the text.
his biological father is, and Tabby died before she ever revealed the truth John. It is obvious that John values his relationship with Owen Meany more than anything else and he could be remembered by John for several reasons. I used John’s statement, “I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany” (1) to support my claim that the most important thing John got from
Owen was his faith. In the novel, John appears to be stuck in the past . I used the quotes “Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” (34), and “O God-please give him back I shall keep asking You!” (617) to show that John still feels the sorrow of his past. My in depth analysis of John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany shows that I have a great comprehension of the text.