Throughout the novel a couple of themes present itself to the eyes of the reader while reading this book. One theme that comes to mind is the constant theme of the relationship of faith and fate. The idea that believing in God in a world where all faith is lost and no miracles happen proves to be almost doubtful. But, as the story unfolds, you begin to realize that the "special purpose" each person holds can only be told by the direction in which God decides. In this scene, Owen Meany is on stage enacting the ghost of the future yet to come when Owen approaches the gravestone and faints. He later awakens just as the curtains fall only to realize the name he read on the gravestone was his own. Scared out of his mind, he has been given a glimpse into his future. For, as did...