John 3:16 Be thankful, grateful, patient, charitable, kind, and to smile, as it is infectious. God Bless America, Protect Our President and Military!
Spoiler Alert!!
The Book – A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving –Army during the Vietnam War. He is tasked with escorting the bodies of dead soldiers. He accurately foresees the exact date and manner of his death, which he sees as his destiny.
Owen summons his best friend John to an airport bathroom in Phoenix, AZ, in 1968. A distraught veteran (Dick Javits) throws a live grenade at a group of Vietnamese children. He fulfills his lifelong destiny as an instrument of GOD, using his signature “The Shot” to hit the grenade into the air and absorb the fatal blast, dying to save the children.
The movie has an ending and character changes. The movie is narrated by none other than Jim Carey, who plays Joe Wentworth, Simon’s best friend and now a father. Joe is considered a bastard child as his mother had him out of wedlock by someone within their community.
Simon was born a midget to two parents who never expected or even wanted him to live and viewed him as an embarrassment. Throughout his young adult life, he tells everyone God saved him for a special purpose.
Johnson could not adapt the Vietnam-era back half of the book, so he has Simon save the children on a winter camp bus outing when the bus, avoiding a deer, slides down a ravine into a frozen river. The kids were panicking, but most of them, though younger, were almost Simon’s size, and they trusted him in his authoritative way. Simon stayed on the bus, promising not to leave them on the sinking bus until every last child was off and safe.
What would be the story you would change the ending? How would it end for you?
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