Book Report On The Pig Man And Me By Paul Zindel

In the article “Monkey Man” by Dean Myers, the main character shows courage throughout the story as he saves his friend Peaches and stands up to the Tigros. This story is about the narrator wanting to escape his neighborhood in Harlem, because of the violent gang he sees and encounters there. His friend Monkey gains courage to put the violent gang in jail. One day monkey was going home from school and decided to stop in the store for a soda, he saw a girl violently messing with peaches, the narrator states “He saw the girl trying to cut peaches and he ran out and knocked the blade from the girls hand” (p13 Myers). Monkey man is courageous as he helps peaches from getting killed, and risks the girl telling the tigros about him.

In the Pigman John and Lorraine narrate the ups and downs of their relationship with Pignati, themselves, their parents, and others. At the beginning, before they met Pignati, John and Lorraine talked about how they met and what they thought of their parents. The way they met Pignati was when Dennis, Norton, John, and Lorraine were prank calling random people to try to be the one with the longest phone call. Lorraine glanced at the names in the phone book so she could choose who to call. While talking to Pignati she was trying to beat the score for the longest phone call.

Unit 3 - The Pigman Angelo Pignati is an adult protagonist in the young adult novel, The Pigman, written by author, Paul Zindel. Mr. Pignati is a lenient person throughout the novel. For example, one day Mr. Pignati takes close friends, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, to buy roller skates at Beekman's department store in chapter 8. Lorraine explains, “He [Mr.Pignati] looked so happy and funny bending over in his seat, trying to put on one of his skates, that I had to laugh” (87). Mr. Pignati is not limiting the children and he even joins them roller skating, portraying he’s content with foolish ideas.

In The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, there are two main characters named John Conlan and Lorraine Jenson. They have two ingrate friends named Norton and Dennis. All of these teens go to Franklin High where John is titled the Bathroom Bomber. John never got caught when setting bombs off in the bathroom because they took time before they actually went off. Lorraine was new to the school when she met John. Lorraine had a great deal of anxiety when sitting near John on the bus. After school, on Wednesday afternoons, the four friends would meet at Dennis’ house to have a telephone marathon. The point of telephone marathon was to see how long one could keep a stranger talking on the phone. Some of the calls put them in predicaments, such as the call that

Who is responsible for the old man’s death? In the fiction novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel is about how Mr. Pignati died and the plot reveals that the death of Mr. Pignati was caused by John and Lorraine. John and Lorraine were two children that go to a public school in Staten island and are very different from each other. One day while playing a game where they prank call individuals and see how long they can keep them talking Lorraine calls this gentleman Mr. Pignati . Lorraine called him and told him they were from a charity and wondering if he could give them some money for their fake charity .Mr.

Piggy convinces Ralph to use the conch shell together the others by giving Ralph the undeserved credit of having that idea in the first place. Piggy seems aware that he could never be the true leader of a group, but that maybe he could rule through Ralph in a way.

The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, is a recount of preceding circumstances narrated by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, who are two sophomores at Franklin High School. Recently, their unanticipated friend Mr. Pignati has died, and they are attempting to tell the story of how they met him, and what happened after. When Lorraine and John first met they were on the bus, and they had become friends by default. John and Lorraine were both outcasts, and did not tend to fit in with a certain group of people. Lorraine had lots of anxiety about everything she did. Part of this anxiety may have stemmed from her mother, as her mother had an extreme distrust in men. John however, seemed to not care what anyone felt about him. His parents seem to not trust him,

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should end in the reader’s.” “Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.” Descriptive adjectives really help the readers see what it’s like to be in the story and imagine what the characters look like and feel like at that moment. Dialogue helps the reader see the story from their point of view and shows us what they think of something else. In the story The Pigman by Paul Zindel, the author uses descriptive adjectives and dialogue to develop the story.

In the book the Republic Socrates creates a city called the City of Pigs. Socrates refers to it as the true city, the healthy ones. His companions do not like the idea of this city. They all come up with a city that they all agree with called the City of Luxury. They believe this city is good and unbiased. I agree with them, I think the City of Luxury is a better city and is overall more unbiased than the City of Pigs.

"Duties Done", a piece from The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten, explores the difference between a fulfilled promise and an unfulfilled one. "Duties Done" is a short story about four characters, Hew, Drew, Lou, and Sue. The family all promised their mother that they would regularly write letting her know how everything was going during their expedition around the world. It is here where the question arises of whether the children actually kept their promise. Even though they promised frequent written updates on their travels, none of them actually arrived and their mother never received any updates. Though each child did write to their mom, Lou and Sue were the only children whom actually made a sincere effort to fulfill the promise to their mother.

How can people be so similar and different at the same time? In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel both the protagonists John and Lorraine have different characteristics. John and Lorraine are both best friends who are sophomores in high school. Although they are very close friends, they have different personalities. At the beginning of the Novel, John is more of a troublesome kid, whereas Lorraine is calm, sensitive and compassionate.

So today I was yelling at Jack and some the other hunters joined in because they were getting sick of him too. We made Jack feel humiliated and angry. I didn’t think that this would happen..but Jack hit me!!! I understand that he was mad but he had no right to hit me. My specs flew off, and a lens broke. Does Jack not understand that I NEED my specs to see?! It was bad enough that I was hit, but then Jack thought it would be funny to mock me too. I really didn’t think it was and I wanted to cry, but everyone else thought it was

Have you ever wondered what the wolf's side of The Three Little Pigs story was? Well, Jon Scieszka gives his readers the opportunity to see a different perspective dealing with this very circumstance. In many of his books, including The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf, Scieszka has used this style of writing that varies from the norm. Every turn of the page gives rise to new wonder and suspense as to what the reader will encounter as he or she moves through the pages of this intriguing book. Many of us grew up hearing fairy tales and nursery rhymes and most of us accepted them the way that they were. However, Jon Scieszka likes to take his readers on "adventures" through the

Have you ever read a love poem that starts with the downs of a relationship? The hidden parts, those scary truths that hides behind a beautiful and wonderful relationship? Some say that it is exactly those secrets that keeps a relationship going. Join me on this journey to learn and know why the “Pig Song” is a beautiful love poem.

Christmas break was finally over, so it was time to return to the stressful world known as school. I wanted to check on my guinea pig, Sparky, when I first woke up at six o’clock a.m. to see how he was doing. However, once I had lifted the small pink den that he slept under, I had discovered the ugly truth. The guinea pig that I had adopted from PetSmart nearly two weeks ago lay there unmoving, motionless. I had tried picking him up to put him in his small carrier, but he was very stiff and heavy, so I decided to leave him until my parents had found out.