Thesis BLog #4

I think the most prevalent use of symbolism in A Prayer For Owen Meany is Owen's interpretations of how the world around him works. Owen can find an abstract meaning in almost anything and uses them make sense of his world. When Owen is sleeping over at the main characters house he feels ill and goes to see the main characters mom. He walks into her room and runs back to get the main character. He says he saw an angel floating above the mother while she slept. Owen believed the angel was a symbolization of death coming for the main characters mother. He thinks that he has disturbed the angel of death while it was trying to take the mothers life.
30 pages read since last post. Owen and the main character play little league baseball. They are both bad at the game. Owen is only used when no one else is able to go up and he can never hit the ball. This is mainly because of his size. One game Owen is sent up and they are losing. Owen actually hits the ball and it hit the main characters mother in the temple. She was dead instantly. Owen's first hit and it was a foul, no less, that killed his best friends mother. I mentioned the angel of death earlier well Owen reasons that because he disturbed the Angel of death while working he was reassigned the task of killing the main characters mother.
I went on Wikipedia.org and looked up John Irving. Someone had done an analysis of his writings and had found common themes in many of his books. It said that New England, Prostitutes, and Vienna were the most common themes in his book. New England is brought up in all of his books except one. The analysis said that New England, Prostitues, Dead PArent, and Deadly Accident were four of of his re-occurring themes that showed up in a Prayer for Owen Meany