[HPforGrownups] The Phoenix

Stephanie Becvar StephBecvar at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 11 00:44:38 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 8941

I just finished reading "A Prayer for Owen Meaney", by John Irving.  At some 
point near the end of the book, i was able to read through my tears, a 
comment that Owen makes about the Phoenix in his diary.  I thought I would 
share it with the rest of you...

"There was quite a good drawing of a Phoenix, that mythical bird that was 
supposed to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own 
ashes.  Under the drawing, Owen had written, 'OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN 
IDEALISM, OR HOPE - OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY' "

Kind of made me think about HP, which was not easy to do considering how 
moving this book is.  I am going to veer off topic and tell you, that if you 
have not read it, it is a wonderful story, one that can cause so many 
emotions in you.  It was the first book I have been able to focus on since 
reading HP in November...without thinking of Harry till the very end....only 
after i had finished the book and was trying to calm myself down did i 
remember to go bnack and find it.

Ignoring all that, what did you think of Owen's views on the Phoenix??

Stephanie
Hoping against hope that someone hasn't already said this long ago....
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