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Pig Happinesso Summary

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In Pig Happinesso, Lynne McFall writes five types of pig happiness. They are the “happy” idiot, the incompetent bottlecap collector, the deluded fool, the successful immoralist, and the impossible idealist. The author finally talks about that we can not use our own standard to judge others happiness are good or not, because happiness is just a report of someone’s own mind. I really agree with the author’s opinion, because I think happiness is actually “all the small things in life that makes us happy”. (Klopatra, 2012) Last class, our teacher asked everyone in my class to describe “happiness” in one sentence. For me, without thinking, I said happiness meant that I got A from that class. It was no doubt that everybody laughed after hearing that. I have to say that I was trying to make everyone feel happy at that moment, because I think sometimes this kind of pig happiness is also a happiness, and at least this kind of “poor thing is happy” (McFall, p.411). …show more content…

That is your happiness may make others feel sad or others may think your happiness “could not be truly happy”. (McFall, p.411) To be completely honest, I was not a good student before I came to the United States. For me, happiness was that I could sleep well until I woke up even I was already late. Happiness was that I could play my cellphone at anytime, even in class. Happiness also meant that I had no homework. That was a really silly thinking that I had before, because I did not notice that all the things I did that I thought could bring me happiness would made my parents and teachers feel sad and

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