The Pigman Summary

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In the Pigman,the main characters, Lorraine, and John are high school sophomore.Johns avocation is drinking beer and smoking.Lorraine avocation is hanging out with John.One day they were joking around called a man named of Pignati.After they started they hang out with him they were mortified by lying to him about the charity thing.Their prevarication lead to John and Lorraine meeting the pigman at the zoo.John had antagonistic by meeting new people.They liked hanging around with the Pigman and had fun hanging around with him. They meet bobo the baboon,Mr.Pignati best friend.The Pigman felt a lot of anxiety when Bobo died and that caused Mr.Pignati to die.When they had a party Norton was very Ingrate there. When they had the party

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