John and Owen The relationship between the two Characters A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is a novel in which religion is of great importance. One of the main themes in this novel is faith in God and oneself, and even more, the conflict between belief and doubt. It is this need for religion, and importance of faith that brings the two main characters, John and Owen, together. John and Owen seem to …showed first 75 words of 1074 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1074 total…bond which is not common to many friendships. The simple existence of one another shaped their entire lives forever, and ‘dooms’ them to remember each other forever. “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keep 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!” (Page 35)