Taking Someone For Granted In The Pigman

The Pigman is a deep story with special characters. One of those characters is Lorraine Jensen, a smart girl who lives with her single mom. She is a responsible and caring girl, and a perfect example of the 40 Developmental Assets. These 40 Assets, created in 1990 by Search Institute, are fundamental to the growth of adolescents into mature adults. Each character in The Pigman has some of these Assets and lacks others. Lorraine may not have all of the Assets needed to be perfect, but she has an amazing character. She has Integrity and positive Other Adult Relationships, but she does not have Positive Peer Influence, which could greatly impact her future.

Have you ever had an old person as a very close friend? These two matured kids do and they made a story about him. This essay is going to show you friendships of the main people and this jerk Norton.

Many times in a story what the main characters say can reflect their personality and lifestyle. This is shown effectively in the memorial epic by Paul Zindel, The Pigman. Throughout this stunningly truthful story, John and Lorraine consistently say things that show just what type of people they are.

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.

“I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets,who ran to me worried that I was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. While he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.”

In the Pigman the one symbolism I choose was to do Bobo the baboon. My representation of the baboon would be friendship for Mr. Pignati. Also I think Bobo served as some one he could grieve with after the loss of his wife. Bobo to me seemed he was Mr. Pignati only family that was still alive to be with him and for him to visit. Bobo might also be something that Mr. Pignati uses to remember his wife. In the story it said, “My wife and I both love animals” and then he would stop like it made him sad to think about it. He also said that he would go to the zoo every day.

Mareez Reyes once said, “One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go” (Reyes). This quote shows relationship to Tim O’Brien because he struggles with letting go of situations that occurred during the war. O’Brien wants to put his hurt in the past, but the memories haunt him in his everyday life, so he writes stories in order to cope. The Vietnam war was a war that many people did not support, innocent young men were drafted to fight for their lives and country without having a choice.

I don’t talk about what happened and no one’s cares enough to question me, they’re just happy he’s gone and I thought I would be too. That day haunts me, I blame myself for not watching him I knew something was going to go wrong eventually, it always did when Lennie was around. I can still hear the ringing in my ears if it’s quiet enough; I will never be able to escape that moment in my life. I don’t regret what I did because it had to be done to protect him but it was still the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I feel like a part of my day is missing, a part I never thought I would ever miss but I do. I miss having to repeat everything I said to Lennie because at least then I had someone to talk to. I miss having that companionship even if he never understood or remembered a word I said at least he was there. When Lennie was here I had a purpose and that purpose was to take care of Lennie, now he’s not here and it feels like I have no direction

Chapter 10: Page 210, Starts with “Dear August and June, I’m sorry to leave you like this…” This passage makes me sad because May passes away but also happy because she gets to be with April and her parents, as she states: “... think how happy I’ll be with April, Mama, Papa, and Big Mama.” She then tells August and June to stay happy by “Pictur[ing] us up there together” and concludes with “Don’t mess [your life] up.” I love how emotional (and relieving(!)) this passage is; I feel like my heart freezes and then feels like it is a furnace because May is giving wisdom to her older sisters and would like to have them live a better life even when she is gone.

I knelt beside the form of my dog, a friend from birth, dying. His trusting eyes looked into mine as he breathed his last breath. I cried more that day than I had ever cried in my entire life. One of my best friends, dead. But no matter how sad and horrifying that day was for me, it will always be implanted in my memory as the first time I ever lost someone close to me.

As soon as Mr. Pignati saw that they seen the room he confessed his love for pigs. Ever since that they called him the pigman. John and Lorraine felt really bad now since they took the money from him so they had to confess to him that they are not charity workers. Mr. Pignati was really sad about it but John and Lorraine tried to cheer him up. So they all

Throughout time, what comes too easy for us is usually taken for granted. What we take for granted is trust we receive from a friend, a gift from a loved one, or power to help people are usually given freely. One such example that we can see in history is when Winston Churchill abused his freely given power when controlling a British army. With his stubbornness and power, that army was led to their destruction. To a lesser degree, people like me have taken some items for granted. What we esteem too cheap, we esteem to lightly which can be seen to be true with myself, my friend and my cousin.

People take their abilities and lifestyle for granted every day because they have not experienced having very little and being limited in their everyday lives. Many do not know what it is like to lose something or have so little so they do not appreciate the small things in life that can easily be taken away. “The things we take for granted, someone else is praying for.” This quote is telling how the food we eat every day, the clothes we buy regularly, and cars we ride on each day, people are praying to have that. Helen Keller was not only blind, but also deaf and for a good part of her life, she did not have the luxury of seeing or hearing and that is one thing that is taken for granted. Sometimes many people lose their sight or hearing and

“Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems. - Mandy Hale