The relationship between John and Owen is really special than others, because it shapes and defines who he is and who he becomes in the future. It is very interesting that even Owen killed John’s mother, they could still get along each other, and became best friends. But they knew each other more until Owen accidently killed John’s mother, Tabitha, during a baseball game. John is a best friend of Owen Meany, they met each other since they were very young. John is a boy that is very quiet, and he lives with his grandmother and mother, and have no idea who his father is. Every little thing that has puzzled Owen or has made him nervous factors into the scene of his death in some meaningful way.Although the book is mainly about Owen Meany, John Wheelwright, also known as Johnny, is the narrator of the book. The nuns are there to comfort him in his last hours. All of the images of armless creatures and people have foreshadowed that Owen will have his arms blown off. Owen and John use The Shot to get the grenade away from the kids. When it all goes down and Dick Jarvits throws a grenade at the boys in the airport bathroom, we start understanding the images that have been confronting us this whole time.
Owen believes that he's supposed to die on July 8, 1968, and he is almost certain, based on the dreams he's been having, that John has to be there. He asks John to come meet him in Arizona, telling him that they can have a nice, relaxing vacation together.
Owen is in the army, and one of his big duties is to escort the bodies of dead soldiers back to their families. The end of the novel plunks us in sunny, hot Phoenix, Arizona. John hasn't been rambling about just any old thing that popped into his head all this time he was building up to Owen's big moment. The end of the novel takes all of these seemingly unrelated details and events and ties them into a pretty neat little bundle. Why, for instance, does John spend so much time describing how he and Owen practice "The Shot"? (In case you forgot, "The Shot" refers to the way that John assists Owen in making a slam-dunk in basketball by hoisting him up in the air.) Why does John spend the better part of two pages talking about the layout of the airport bathroom? What is it with Owen and nuns – why does he find them so terrifying? Why is Owen so preoccupied with representations of people and animals that don't have arms? We never cease to think of other things that puzzle us. We also puzzled over why some events or activities received so much attention. We don't know about you, but when we were reading A Prayer for Owen Meany, we couldn't believe how much attention John, our narrator, pays to every single little detail.
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