Summary Of The Pigman By Paul Zindel

Throughout the story John’s thoughts and words really bring him to life. While he is in a cemetery drinking and smoking, John says “I’m looking for anything to prove that when I drop dead there’s a chance I’ll be doing something a little more exciting than decaying.” This shows John’s curiosity about the future. John seems like the kind of person that is always eager to learn new things. At the very end of the story John says “They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.” What John means is that many people in general build their own “cage” and they only let certain people in. In the story John, Lorraine and Mr. Pignati did just this. They each lived in their own separate worlds until they met each other. When they met they opened each other’s eyes to the outside world. In the last part of the quote John is describing how when Mr. Pignati died he took John and Lorraine’s childhood with him. When the three of them were together they acted like children. Mr. Pignati was like the father they never had and when he died a part of them died as well.

Pignati. More and more, Lorraine and John started to go over to the Pigmans house. They mostly went to the zoo, watched tv, and made jokes with each other. Eventually, John and Lorraine wanted to come clean with Mr. Pignati; they wanted to tell him the truth. John starts off saying “You’ve been so nice to us that we want to be honest with you.” (Zindel 101) This quote shows that John and Lorraine both cared about Mr. Pignati. They trusted the Pigman enough that they wanted to be honest with him. Since John does not have a good relationship with his family, it is important for John to be able to be honest with someone since he does not have any family support. Later, John and Lorraine go to visit Mr. Pignati in the hospital. When they are about to give the house keys to the Pigman, he refuses to take them and says “ You keep them”...”Maybe you’ll want to watch some television or have some more chocolate ants.” (Zindel 115) This shows that Mr. Pignati trusts John and Lorraine with his house. Being able to trust is one of the main things young adults need to sustain a good relationship with others, and Mr. Pignati trusts them. This shows that not only John and Lorraine trust him, the Pigman trusts them as well. Although John does not have a good relationship with his parents at home, he is able to keep an adult with relationship with Mr.

According to the text, John’s life became brighter once the pigman entered it. This is because in the beginning of the book, John is the kind of person who played pranks on people, such as the Pigman, and drank alcohol or smoked all day. But as things develop John discovers that Mr. Pignati is so incredibly nice and genuine and trusting that John finds it hard to trick the Pigman without feeling guilty. Finally by the end of the book, John finally gets a job, and for the time, in a long time, John is unselfish again.

A wise man once said, “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love,” (Hubert H. Humphrey, Brainy Quotes). John and Lorraine, sophomores and the narrators of Paul Zindel’s The Pigman are great friends to the aging and lonely Angelo Pignati. What started off as a prank call, turned into a rewarding friendship and ended in the tragic death of Mr. Pignati. It can be proven that John and Lorraine are in no way responsible for this death. Their friendship, Mr. Pignati’s poor health and his emotional instability prove this is true.

Johnny and Ponyboy got stuck in a fight with some of the Socs. Johnny ended up killing a Soc in order to protect his brother. Or in other words, he was loyal to his brother. Ponyboy showed many ways in which him and his family/friends grew up.

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.

Later that night Johnny and Pony are jumped by a few soc’s. Johnny kills one to save Pony from dying. Dally then sends them away so they don’t get in trouble. While at the church Dally comes back for them. When they go to get there stuff the church caught on fire while children from a local school were in it.

They encourage and build each other up. Before Mr. Pignati met John and Lorraine, his closest friend was a baboon. He was lonely, not able to have worthwhile relationships after his wife Conchetta died. He even pretends that Conchetta is alive, only on vacation. Lorraine is self-conscious because of her mother’s insults.

When Johnny died and Dally ran to the parking lot, Dally felt like there was no hope to live anymore so he robbed a supermarket and held his run up to show the police and he

Pignati dies. John had been roller skating up the stairs and Mr. Pignati was too tired to go up the stairs, but tries anyway. Mr. Pignati then has a heart attack. While Mr. Pignati is in the hospital, John and Lorraine host a party at his house. During the party, someone rips his dead wife’s dress and breaks his pig statues.

Johnny killed Bob because he was drowning Pony in the fountain. They took refuge in a church, and

Pignati she felt discouraged for taking advantage of Mr. Pignati by collecting his money and lying about the charity. "We really shouldn't have stayed this long" page forty-four. After they had got the money from Mr. Pignati, he invited them to arrest and talk and John and Lorraine already collected the money from him by lying and then they overstayed their welcome. Mr. Pignati was at a hospital. They had a chance to throw a party knowing this party would make them popular at school

The Pigman Essay “The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

This is the second thing Zindel sets out to tell his readers in the story. These two teenagers John and Lorraine, who were once loners, meet the Pigman and feel like they belong somewhere and with someone. The Pigman was not only a friend to John and Lorraine, but he was a father and a mentor. The Pigman opened his life to John and Lorraine and they opened their lives to him. The Pigman put John and Lorraine first in his life and he wanted to make them happy. The Pigman quickly became close friends after he met John and Lorraine and that friendship lasted for a long time. If John and Lorraine wanted something, the Pigman would buy it even though they did not need it. As the story progressed, the friendship between the three grew stronger and stronger until one day it started to fall. In the end, their friendship started to crumble and then it disappeared just like what happens to must friendships. Friendships are just like life, fragile and they could last long or they could last for a short amount of