Dan is a drama teacher at Gravesend Academy. When Johnny is ten years old (in 1952), Tabby marries a man named Dan Needham, a sort of geeky guy whom she met on the train four years earlier. Owen also sticks out because he kind of acts like a little old man he's wise beyond his years and isn't afraid to tell other people about his beliefs and principles. We get a sense of Owen's voice from the first time he speaks because all of his dialogue is written LIKE THIS, IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. He has ears that stick out and a voice that terrifies people who hear it for the first time. We learn right away that Owen is totally different from the other kids in town – physically, he's the smallest kid around. Johnny spends most of his time with Owen Meany, whose family owns a granite quarry in Gravesend. All anyone knows is that Johnny's father is someone she met on the train to Boston, where Tabby would travel once a week for voice lessons. Johnny's mom, Tabby, gave birth to him out of wedlock and refuses to tell anyone who Johnny's father is. John (or Johnny, as he's called as a kid) lives with his mother and grandmother at 80 Front Street. He sets the scene in Gravesend, New Hampshire, beginning in 1952. He tells us the story of his friendship with Owen Meany and how it has affected his whole life. Our narrator, John Wheelwright, is an American expatriate living in Toronto, Canada in 1987.
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