First he knows 3 things about himself (his voice never changes, when he's going to die, and that he's God's instrument), then 2 things in his dream about his own death, and then 4 things about himself (expand the above list to include how he's going to die). And "I KNOW _ THINGS." Used in his diary.
Owen: "THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE." Usually talking to Hester, and sometimes Johnny. Johnny: (in narration) "Remember that?" or "Remember him?" When talking about famous people/events from the past. Broken Bird: Hester becomes this after Owen's death. Unfortunately, seeing what Hester become after his death, he wasn't successful. Owen purposely makes jabs at Hester and picks fights with her in his letters to "help her fall out of love with him before he died". Break Her Heart to Save Her: Downplayed. Owen gets expelled for his resistance, but in the process he gets the headmaster fired. Boarding School: Owen and Johnny go to one, though Owen is a day student and Johnny lives in a faculty apartment with his stepfather, and watch as a new headmaster begins to turn it into a Boarding School of Horrors. Owen of course, is too modest to confirm this, and only mildly scolds Hester for being crude. Bigger Is Better in Bed: Owen, according to Hester. Merill wished that Tabitha would drop dead when he saw her waving hi in his direction at the fateful baseball game. 
Award-Bait Song: You Were There by Babyface. Anti-Climax: Deliberately on multiple occasions. Anachronic Order: A few scenes, the scenes in the present day non-withstanding, take place years after the main parts of the novel, but are tied in with it. The audience sitting in the church assumes this is a sermon to them and part of the play the reader knows that Owen was talking to his sacrilegious parents. 
All Part of the Show: During the Nativity play, Owen (playing Jesus) stands up and addresses the audience, telling them they are not worthy and should be ashamed of themselves for even setting foot in a church. In 1998, it loosely adapted as the film Simon Birch. Written by John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany (1989) is best described as intentional Glurge with an undercurrent of despairing Postmodernism. 
The third? He calls himself GOD'S INSTRUMENT, and he might be right. The second is his damaged voicebox, trapped in a permanent scream that alternately amuses and scares those around him. The first is that even when he reaches adulthood he is under five feet tall. There are three things about Owen Meany that are unusual.
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