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John forgives Owen for his role in Tabitha’s death, and they stay close friends. He believes that since a woman died at his hands, his hands and his life now belong to God.

Later that year, Owen plays the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol and the baby Jesus in the church Christmas pageant, and he has a vision of the day he will die.

When Owen and John are eleven, Tabitha is tragically killed in a freak accident by a baseball that Owen hit. Owen has always been very religious, and he has visions of angels before Tabitha’s death. Owen’s family had once been Catholics, but the Catholic Church had somehow offended them. Lewis Merrill, to the Episcopalian Church, which Owen attended.

When they got married, Tabitha switched from the Congregational Church, led by Rev. John’s stepfather, Dan Needham, taught history and theater at the local private high school, Gravesend Academy. When John was six, Tabitha met another man on the train, and this time she married him. Meany is an extreme recluse who is likely mentally ill. His parents are eccentric, emotionally distant, and don’t show him much affection- Mr. As John grows up, Owen becomes like a second son to Tabitha. She never told her family who the man was, and she continued living with her mother, Harriet, after giving birth to John. John’s mother became pregnant with him after she had a fling with a man she met on the train to Boston, where she took singing lessons once a week. The town thinks that Owen was stunted from his exposure to so much granite dust when he was born, but Owen believes his unusual size and voice come from God. He also has a strange voice that sounds like a permanent high-pitched scream whenever he speaks. In Sunday school, the kids make a game of picking up the weightless Owen and passing him around overhead, because he is so much smaller than the rest of his peers. The two boys attend to Sunday school together, since John’s mother, Tabitha Wheelwright, recently decided that they will switch to Owen’s church. Owen grows up in a poor working-class household, and lives in his family’s granite quarry. John comes from one of the town’s founding families, and grows up in a traditionally dignified, well-to-do household with servants and a large family fortune. John and Owen grow up as best friends in the small New England town of Gravesend, New Hampshire. The present-day timeline of the book spans from January to September, as John weaves his childhood memories of growing up in New Hampshire with an account of his life today in Canada. John Wheelwright, an American living in Toronto in 1987, tells the story of his life as he explains how he became a Christian because of his childhood friend Owen Meany.