Posted by mair on June 11, 2002, at 6:44:27
In reply to Re: now i need to go check it out again, to remember » mair, posted by Ritch on June 9, 2002, at 23:33:39
I think it's kind of neat the way Owen doesn't know what his role is - just that he has one. A good part of the book is the development of his understanding of the forces happening to him and his attempt to control them. He cuts off Johnny's finger when Johnny starts cropping up in the dream. He keeps angling for a transfer to a combat unit because he can't figure out how he saves Asian children in Arizona. The author does a good job of demonstrating that this is a gradual process with Owen, although maybe fueled by his parents admission to him that he was a virgin birth. - They really get trashed for this, as well they might, but how would things have been different if they had never told him that?
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