The Pigman

The Pigman by Paul Zindel was a very good book. It all started with two high school kids writing down their experiences with an old man, Mr. Pignati, known as the Pigman. They was a Highschool boy named John, and a Highschool girl named Lorraine. John was a very handsome boy, outgoing, funny, and he had an avocation to drink beer. John’s family treats him very infantile, and is always comparing him to his brother. Lorraine was very shy and had paranoia, she was very self conscious. Somehow those two managed to become best friends. The Pigman lived a very mundane lifestyle, and the kids met the Pigman by a prank. Their prank was to keep some random person talking on the phone for as long as possible. Lorraine picked the Pigman and said that…

In The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, two teenagers named John and Lorraine become friends with an older man they call the Pigman. Several characters in the book die, or have already been dead. Death is a part of life. The Pigman and the Pigwoman both died. I think the Pigwomans death caused loneliness for the Pigman, and he was going to die soon, as stated in this quote, John says, “If you ask me, I think he would have died anyway”. Their were lots of things that led up to his death like stress…

The Pigman by Paul Zindel is about two sophomores in high school named John and Lorraine. The story is narrated by John and Lorraine switching off every other chapter. Both of them had some impression in one way or another by the ‘Pigman’. Towards the beginning of the story they begin to speak about themselves and how they were up until sophomore year when they met “the Pigman”. Seen through Lorraine's eyes, John seemed to be more into fun pranks, an advocation of his, and not getting caught,…

“The Pigman” In The Pigman by Paul Zindel, John is depicted as handsome, sneaky, mischievous, and stubborn. John is portrayed as being handsome when Lorraine stated that he looks very attractive. John displayed his sneakiness when he explained how the administration of Franklin High never caught him when he set off bombs in the boy’s restroom. John’s mischievous side revealed itself when he described how he pranked substitute teachers in his freshman year. Finally, John revealed his…

In this novel the Pigman by Paul Zindel, relationship(s) can be defined as, the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. We will elaborate on the following relationship(s) of a) Parents b) Pigman and c) Peers. Firstly, the connection between the parents and the kids isn’t the greatest, for John and his father they have a deep conflict when his father asks him to join the coffee exchange John’s reply is “I want to be an actor and his…

In The Pigman, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen narrate, in alternating chapters, about their fun and exciting time they had with Mr. Pignati. In the beginning of The Pigman John and Lorraine relate to each other about their feelings of Mr. Pignati’s death. After they relate, Lorraine, John, and their “supposed” friends play a prank calling game. When it was Lorraine's cheats and calls Mr. Pignati so she can get the longest time. Then the next day Lorraine and John go to the Pigman’s house to…

To begin with, the book The Pigman includes the following characters: John, Lorraine, The Pigman, Mrs. Jensen, and John’s parents. John and his friends like to hang out near the cemetery. Sometimes you could say that they acted like nocturnal creatures. John and his friends would do something called a “telephone marathon”, where someone could see how long they could talk to a random number in the phone book. One day as John and Lorraine were doing a “telephone marathon”, and they called the…

The pigman essay This is the story about a lonely man who finished being a hero . Mr.Pignati was a lonely person in the novel “The Pigman”. The Pigman had a collection of pigs he had been collecting for many years. Although the Pigman had no son’s he was a widow .Even though the Pigman lived alone and his wife was dead he always was kind and gave love to others .The Pigman was really friendly and optimistic in everything he could. “You are just lucky the old guy isn’t going to press…

Between John, Lorraine and Mr.Pignati’s relationship in The Pigman, there were a lot of factors that altogether they overcome. However, there is this one factor that really stood out and in my opinion, was the main one. There were man vs man problems, such as John and his parents, who he refers to as Bore and Old Lady, John and Norton, Lorraine and Mother, etc. There were man vs environment, such as Mr.Pignati and society (negligence), Lorraine, John, Norton and Dennis(outcasts),etc. There were…

In the novel, The Pigman by Paul Zindel, two teens fool an old man, but find the most valuable friendship they will never get again. John Conlan and Lorraine Jenson are two, out of the four in their group, friends that find the friendship of a lifetime. One night, they do their normal routine when hanging out with their friends Norton and Dennis, and have a competition. They compete to see who can have the longest conversation,using prevarications, with a stranger on the phone. Lorraine…