The Pigman Book Report

John and lorraine are directly responsible for Mr. Pignati’s death because the L&J fund involved him into doing activities he should not be doing, They put a lot of stress on Mr. Pignati by destroying his house and taking him to see Bobo after he died, also after his heart attack he should have been resting but they pushed him to do more.

Even after Dally pulls him out of the church, Johnny would die in a hospital because of his injuries. Dally had seen many people get injured and die from his time in New York, but once Johnny does, he doesn’t deal with the pain well. Afterwards, in obvious agony, he sprints down the hall and away from the hospital. Ponyboy pondered his reaction later, thinking “Why can I take it when Dally can’t? Then I knew.

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.

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.

When they were playing tag Mr.Pignati had a predication heart attack. They called the ambulance and lied to the hospital workers. They said that they are his children, he said that they can use his home when his in the hospital. Lorraine and John were cleaning up his house before John goes to the kitchen and starts freaking out it see how many beers he has, he said that that he’s having a couple of friends over so John put out the beers and the hors d’oeuvres out as well, but shortly after the little get together turned into a big party with everyone there. Norton showed up even though he was never invited in the first place in came instead. Norton was nowhere to be found until John catches him trying to steal one of Mr.Pignati’s things, Norton makes a run for it and goes to the pig room and smash all of Mr.Pignati’s pigs with antagonists look on his face. Mr.Pignati’s was coming up the steps and see the party the police came and break up the party and Mr.Pignati came in the house and saw all the damage that the kids made.

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.

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.

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.

A Pig’s Perspective is about one pig’s revenge on barbecue. A Pig’s Perspective is a very humorous personal story from Pollan. It is a tale of his pet pig, Kosher. Kosher escaped one summer day and followed the scent of a barbecue at a neighbor’s yard. He knocked over the barbecue grill and made off with the meat that was being cooked. His neighbor found the pig’s transgression very comical. Pollan suggests that the deed was the pig’s vengeance.

Lennie and John took care of all of the animals and crops while their Aunt Clara was dead. One day when Lennie was feeding the horses, he smacked the horse in the butt and got kicked in the head by it and got knocked out. John ran to Lennie and thought he was dead, but noticed he was just knocked out. After a couple hours of being knocked unconscious, Lennie finally woke up. When he woke up, John was so relieved because he thought Lennie had been killed by the

They kicked Johnny off to the side and started drowning Ponyboy in the fountain. Johnny

Mr. Pignati is so distraught he can’t even admit Conchetta is dead. After having the people Mr.Pignati loved all not with him he was very abandoned. When when John and Lorraine came around he couldn’t even take the happiness. After his heart attack, John decided it would be great if they had a party. After the party when Mr.Pignati came home he was devastated.

John was escorted home so the next day John and lorraine where going to apologize to the pigman. “ My mother started her high frequency clicking.” (Zindal 151). This shows that John does not care about his parents which means there is no support. This Is why John Colin is lacking family

In a world where broken hearts are common, can they actually kill someone? Is trespassing into childhood as dangerous as going into a government secured location? In The Pigman, a book written by Paul Zindel, two teenagers contact an old man, Mr. Pignati, and, after getting to know him and discover that his wife has died, start to hang out with him often; however, after Mr. Pignati has a heart attack, he dies shortly after recovery. There are two causes for Mr. Pignati’s death: he trespassed into childhood and his soul wanted to join his wife in the underworld.

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