The Cider House Rules

The film Cider House Rules follows Homer Wells (played by Tobey Maguire), an orphan, journey from the orphanage in St. Clouds, Maine to a new world at the apple orchard owned by the Worthington family. Cider House Rules teaches the audience both the pros and cons of breaking the rules and the importance of friends and family, Breaking the rules first appears in the concept of the orphanage itself. An orphanage contains two types of children: those whose parents have died and have no one else to take care of them and those whose parents have given them up as they did not want them. The parents who have given up their child have abandoned and therefore broken their rights as parents to care for the child they brought into the world. Harsh outcomes…

After watching Cider House Rules, I discovered and analyzed the way in which I comprehended and reacted to many different situations that occurred in the movie. Although these events do not commonly appear in the daily life of the average person, I was able to utilize my response to this film by finding the patterns of my thinking and the pitfalls of my thinking. There are errors in my process of thinking that can cause me to form inaccurate opinions which prevent me from reaching the best…

will not allow this. Against Homer’s own morals, he makes the decision to help Rose, and gives her an abortion. There is a set of five rules typed out on paper that hang in the Cider house. They state the tenants of the Cider house should not smoke in bed, should not operate the grinder or press if they have been drinking, should not go up to the roof and eat their lunch, should not go to the roof to sleep, even if very hot, and should not go up to the roof at night. Mr. Rose goes on to make…

The prevalent issue in The Cider House Rules concerns the topic of abortion. The world has long since been divided on whether abortion should be a legal option. In 1973, the US Supreme Court's 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade declared the procedure a "fundamental right." Individuals in favor for abortion identify as pro-choice; they believe that abortion is a right that should not be dictated by the government or religious authority. Those who are against abortions identify as pro-life; they believe…

Life is filled with many unexpected situations, nothing ever goes as expected which is the definition behind Thomas Hardy’s quote. The quote reads, “Nothing bears out in practice what is promises incipiently”. Thomas Hardy’s quote relates to a numerous amount of events in A Prayer For Owen Meany mostly with how John’s life starts to unravel. The way John Irving wrote the novel has a unique chronology in the way that the novel tends to skip through different parts of John’s life. A Prayer For…

Kyle Kennedy Nordsiek Honors American Literature 12 October 2015 Expectations Versus Reality in A Prayer for Owen Meany Throughout A Prayer for Owen Meany, events often do not play out as the characters originally intended or predicted. This motif – that “nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently” – is one of the most important motifs in the novel, and it is realized through several major events. Three components of the book are significant examples of this motif: Johnny’s…

In an ever changing world, what is promised initially may not always go as planned when it is put to the test. John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, tells the story of Johnny Wheelwright, a boy growing up in Gravesend, New Hampshire, struggling with identity and faith. But one cannot tell the story of Johnny Wheelwright without including Owen Meany, the tiny, dwarflike boy who is the only reason Johnny believes in God. Owen is a major spiritual character and his actions have direct correlations…

In his work A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving delves into the fundamentals of faith through his narrator, Johnny Wheelwright, and Johnny’s best friend Owen Meany. Johnny and Owen are best friends as they grow up in Gravesend. Owen and Johnny spend nearly every waking minute with each other, often at Johnny’s grandmother’s house. During one of their many childhood sleepovers, Owen comes down with a fever. After Owen wakes Johnny up, Johnny sends him down the hall to his mother’s room. Johnny’s…

Throughout the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving writes a story about two boys growing up and learning the works of the world. The protagonist, John Wheelwright, is narrating the book about his life as an adult and sharing details about his childhood. In his childhood, he writes about his closest companion, Owen Meany. Owen leads John to become an anti-American, pessimistic, all girls private school teacher in Canada. As John is going through college and Owen is serving the Vietnam war…

God’s Instrument After years of typing away on his antique typewriter for hours on end, the Oscar winning storyteller John Irving triumphantly finished his seventh novel A Prayer For Owen Meany in 1989. The emotional tugging that the novel forces upon its audience made it one of the most read novels of the 20th century (McCarthy 2). This humorous yet heart wrenching tale tells of an unlikely friendship between two boys just before the Vietnam era. As a time full of war, death, and lost hope;…