A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany

A Prayer for Owen Meany The title A Prayer for Owen Meany is referred upon several times throughout the story. The author uses the “prayers for Owen” by illustrating the reverend’s difficulty to create proper words for Owen and his needs. Also, the author uses his “prayers for Owen” to illustrate to the audience that this man who is so rare must be a gift of God and must be prayed about and often reflected upon. He is a sign of the holy and the supernatural. The setting of the book is in many places because of the author’s erratic flavor in which he chooses to reminisce. In most scenes, the author tells of his life in the late 40’s / early 50’s in Gravesend, New Hampshire. The author himself is writing from his home in 1987 in Toronto, Canada, however most action takes place in his flashbacks occurring in and around Gravesend, (whether it be the Academy, 80 Front Street, or owen, gravesend, author, novel, john, faith, around, upon, town’s, throughout, theme, religious, prayers, older, must, meany, man, existence, doubt, book, about, writing, words, whether, wheelwright, two, traced, town, toronto, title, times, through, themes, tells, takes, supernatural