Paul Zindel's The Pigman

When Lori and Jeanette are growing older, they decide they want to move to New York City to start a new life, away from their parents. Lori and Jeanette get jobs and begin to earn money. They hide their earnings from their parents in a piggy bank they named Oz. One day Jeanette tries to find Oz to put her paycheck in. Instead she says to Lori “Someone has slashed him apart with a knife and stole all the money” (Walls 228). The kids knew right away who had stolen it. It was Dad. When Lori confronted Dad with the news about Oz, he started playing dumb, acting like he had not idea what was going on. But in fact he did steal the money. This action shows that Dad is very selfish and only cares about himself.

Then Toddy arrives and sees Victoria, the woman he saw that same morning in the bar. When he entered, he sat at a table near her and ordered a coffee. As soon as he could, he approached her and kissed her hand as a sign of greeting and that it is a pleasure to meet her. They started talking and she invited him to eat with her. They talked about them and the food of the restaurant and now is when she comments that she has a cockroach in her purse and plans to put it in her salad to avoid paying the bill and leave, but he says that that would not work in a restaurant of prestige and class like that one. She ends up opening her purse and throwing the cockroach to the salad. At that moment, the waiter comes and asks if everything is fine and Toddy asks for more wine. When the waiter returns, the cockroach gets off and walks by her hand, she jumps from the chair, frightened and disgusted, and pushes the waiter causing a scandal for the other clients. The two complain about the restaurant service with the waiter and Toddy asks to see the manager. The manager comes and she explains the situation which ends up favoring her but not Toddy since he had to pay his own. In the end, another woman shouted when she felt the cockroach walk down his leg and at that moment, Toddy and Victoria took advantage and escaped without both paying one of the bills for what they had

John finds in the Pigman something so much-needed by him and so denied by his own parents that he finds it hard not to change.This is because John does not get along with his parents, especially his father, who he calls the "Bore."One major source of friction between John and his dad is John's dream of becoming an actor. When John tries to tell his father that he doesn't want to wear a suit and carry an attaché case, and repeatedly says, "I want to be me," his dad ignores and discourages his dreams, and says to him "Thank God Kenneth isn't a lunatic" (7). (Kenneth, John's brother, works with his father at the Coffee Exchange, and his parents consider him nothing short of perfectly.) Also, John's mother is, he tells us, a

“But, I 'm already resigned to this fate / Looking over my life, I recall / If it hadn 't been / for the loneliness / I 'd have no companion at all. ” This stanza from “Loneliness”, by Lora Colon evokes the negative impact a lonely fate has on a person. Words like “resigned” and “loneliness” establish a sense of depression and resignation. During the times of the Great Depression, many people felt similar feelings of melancholy and stoicism. Jobs were hard to come by, and realistic dreams of success were scarce. John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, allows readers to see the life of the Great Depression. The two main characters, George and Lennie, search for jobs, like many other migrant workers. They dream of owning their own land, however, Lennie’s habit of getting in trouble prevents their dream from being reality. After he accidentally causes more trouble at their new job, George is forced to kill him out of mercy. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck shows that even if one meticulously plans out the road to their American Dream, fate will inevitably intervene and lead one to desolation and loneliness.

The small city of Brownsville is small in both population and mind. Even though there are individuals who commute morning and night from country to country, there is no unity. Growing up, I had never experienced a “diverse” city. In the city of Brownsville, Hispanics are the majority. As a result, individuals who saw somebody of a different race or ethnicity would make negative and offensive comments towards them. At times, these offensive comments were accidental. Other times, the offensive comments were on purpose and intended to appear humorous to friends. Apart from discriminatory remarks to outsiders, this happened amongst people of my Hispanic community.

Realizing only after the death of Mr. Pignati, John and Lorraine rue that they hadn’t acted with more maturity, and decide to recount their experiences with Mr. Pignati in an attempt to make some sort of amends. John and Lorraine find that they must live their own life without accusing others for their faults and mistakes.

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.

Fact makes knowledge, but exercise makes brilliance. Just as a dancer must employ extreme effort and time in order to ever acquire the measure of perfection demanded, so must a thinker practice his method in order to truly rise to the culmination of his facility. Therefore, utilizing and stimulating the mind in study proves the brightness of a man, for by deciphering the different puzzles of life, he has made theory into reality. In Chaim Potok’s masterful narrative, The Chosen, he contemplates the genius of man through three different individuals, perspectives, and personalities: the remarkable yet restless mind of Danny, the cold intellect of Reb Saunders, and the astuteness of Reuven. In each character, Potok discusses the joys and also the difficulties of possessing so great a mind, for though it can make the most complex of things simple, it can also make the simplest of things, such as conversation, complex. Notwithstanding, the three persons, Danny, Reb Saunders, and Reuven, each

In chapter eight of the Pigman Lorraine Jensen, one of the main characters, describes a great deal about Mr. Pignati, her feelings about love, her mother, a bum at the ferry house, Mr. Pignati in the mall, and the rest of their trip in the mall. First she narrates her thought on Conchetta’s death. This leads her to think about what it would be like to lose a spouse. She thinks this is why her mother is so bitter. After she’s done at Mr. Pignati’s she goes home and talks with her mother. Her mother assigns chores for her to do the next day while she’s at work. Lorraine gets done with plenty of time to meet them at the ferry house. After the ferry house they get on the subway to go Beekman’s. Mr. Pignati is excited when they arrive at Beekman’s.

He closes his door running to the fun house , he enters inside . The interior was faded red and white colors with mold spreading . He comes into the broken hall of mirrors , where he hears his name in a loud drippy voice. “ Henry Lambert.” He stops where he is , looking all around , folding up his fist. “ I know your in here Scratch , I'm not afraid of you , so come out and face me .” “ You want to fuck with my friends , why don't you come out and fuck with me.” Henry walks around the broken mirror glass , he enters the tilted room , with a slide as an exit . “ Henry Lambert.” “ That's right , that's me , show yourself Scratch.” “ Or are you a pussy?” He then feels a hand turning him around , bright circus lights come on in there surroundings. Henry cracks his knuckles , facing Scratch , not showing any sign of fear , just anger. “ You really aren't scared of me , are you boy?” “ No , I'm not scared of anyone or anything.” Scratch laughs , scratching his nails against the rotten wall , making a little dust fall from the ceiling. “ Awaking you was a mistake , but whatever you're mad about , we had nothing to do with it. “ “ No , but your precious locals did . ” “ You think my life is perfect clown?” Scratch laughs walking closer to Henry. “ You don't know me , or about my life , consider yourself lucky.” “ What happened Scratch?” “ Tell me , tell us , make us

Despite their differences, they fought like siblings, but never hurt each other with intent. The similarities and differences display the fact that they treat each other with sibling-like aspects. John and Lorraine lied about who they were to Mr. Pignati at first, but before and

Leonard Wibberley wrote The Mouse That Roared. Wibberley published this novel in 1955. “He also published under the name Patrick O'Connor, among others, was a prolific and versatile Irish author who spent most of his life in the United States” (Wikipedia, 2017). The book was written to show how a small country could amount to something great. The small imaginary European country Duchy of Grand Fenwick was very small but ran with enormous hearts.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Phillip. He lives in a poor family in the small town of Oplacan. Phillip lives with his Mom, and his pig Dill. Phillip and his family have to live off the bacon Dill produced. Phillip was Dills best friend. Except Phillip didn’t know it might have changed forever.

In the beginning of the book, The Pigman, John had an avocation of releasing bombs in the bathroom. The next year he moved on to less antagonistic, but the game he chose was kinda mean. The game he chose was seeing how long you could get a person to talk on the phone. One day, he and Lorraine was playing and she called a man named Angelo Pignati. To begin with, she prevaricated and told him she was Ms. Truman from the L & J Fund. Consequently, when Mr. Pignati believed her, he offered her $10. She wanted to refuse but nevertheless, John didn’t let her. However, she went to go pick it up because John guilt tripped her the next day, saying Mr. Pignati was subconsciously going to commit suicide. Mr. Pignati was sad and lonely, so he talked

The boys find a piglet stuck in the “creepers” they believe that they could kill it for food. Jack, cowardly lets the pig escape. He argues that he was trying to find a place to stab it. He promises that he will show no mercy next time. The other boys know that he was just scared of killing another animal and seeing its blood.