Self- consciousness can affect the way peoples' life and can cause people to drink more than usual. The Pigman, by Paul Zindel is a book that has a boy named John and he drinks and he is still underage. So, he should not be drinking. He drinks because he gets no attention at his house; his parent yell at him all the time and do not care that he drinks. He is similar to all other Americans because people that do not have their parents to guide them in the correct way are more likely to drink because they have nothing better to do with their lives. Americans tend to drink and smoke because they do not get attention and want the attention. Why they do it is because then they will get negative attention but to them it is still attention.
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His parents do not yell at him for drinking because they don’t care that he drinks. "Most people that drink are also smokers" this is true for John. When John goes to the cemetery he will drink and smoke all together. I know that this is true because the story states that "John cashed the check and got a six-pack of beer and a pack of cigarettes." John not only buys the pack of beer he also bought a pack of cigarettes. Mostly the reason John smokes and drinks is because he gets knows that he will get attention from adults and his peers. Even though he gets negative attention from the adults it is still attention and he will get attention from his peers also when he …show more content…
This is also true with John in "The Pigman" he is a teenager that it under the age of eighteen. He has tried the alcohol and he is not the age eighteen and he is already a heavy drinker. People in America are like this because they have tried alcohol by the age eighteen and then some of them become heavy drinkers. Even though there is a law stating that you must be the age of twenty-one to purchase or consume alcohol, but this doesn’t mean that people do not buy alcohol and give it to the minors for money or just because they are friends. There is also a law stating that people that are twenty-one and over that purchase the alcohol cannot give it to minors, but they still do, and they don’t get
His parents do not yell at him for drinking because they don’t care that he drinks. "Most people that drink are also smokers" this is true for John. When John goes to the cemetery he will drink and smoke all together. I know that this is true because the story states that "John cashed the check and got a six-pack of beer and a pack of cigarettes." John not only buys the pack of beer he also bought a pack of cigarettes. Mostly the reason John smokes and drinks is because he gets knows that he will get attention from adults and his peers. Even though he gets negative attention from the adults it is still attention and he will get attention from his peers also when he …show more content…
This is also true with John in "The Pigman" he is a teenager that it under the age of eighteen. He has tried the alcohol and he is not the age eighteen and he is already a heavy drinker. People in America are like this because they have tried alcohol by the age eighteen and then some of them become heavy drinkers. Even though there is a law stating that you must be the age of twenty-one to purchase or consume alcohol, but this doesn’t mean that people do not buy alcohol and give it to the minors for money or just because they are friends. There is also a law stating that people that are twenty-one and over that purchase the alcohol cannot give it to minors, but they still do, and they don’t get