John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany

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The time has come. Second semester of senior year flies by, and I still have not made up my mind. After the hundreds of hours I spent trying to make this decision easier for myself, after the countless amounts of applications, interviews, scholarships I finished, I still can not conclude where to attend college next fall. I relate to Johnny, in John Irving’s novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, when Owen lectured Johnny about taking action to dodge the dreaded Vietnam war, “ ‘WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION-YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE’ “ (Irving 502). Although my decision is not a life or death situation, we both have a difficult choice to make. Not only will
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