John does not know who his father is, though he does know his heritage: he comes from the aristocratic Wheelwright family. He has a tremendous crush on John's mother, who, in turn, is very fond of him she even intervenes with Owen's parents to ensure that he will be able to attend the elite Gravesend Academy for high school. A tiny dwarf, he has weirdly luminous skin and an ethereally nasal voice (represented in the novel in all-capital letters). The narrative of A Prayer for Owen Meany does not follow a perfect chronology, as John pieces together the story he wants to tell. Peppering his narrative with frequent diary entries in which he chronicles his outrage against the behavior of the Ronald Reagan administration in the late 1980s, Wheelright tells the story of his early life in Gravesend, New Hampshire, when his best friend was Owen Meany, who he remembers as the boy who accidentally killed Wheelwright's mother and made Wheelright believe in God. Writing from his home in Toronto, Canada in 1987, John Wheelwright narrates the story of his childhood.
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