Piggy Sneed Analysis

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I believe that Trying to Save Piggy Sneed takes place around the1950’s. In the story it says “When I was a boy, Front Street was lined with elms; it wasn't Dutch elm disease that killed most of them. The two hurricanes that struck back to back, in the '50s, wiped out the elms and strangely modernized the street.” The first part of the story, when he talks about making fun of Piggy Sneed, he was just a boy so it was just before the 1950’s. Then when he is a teenager and the fire happens, it is probably about 5 years after he “was a boy”. That means that the fire probably happens between the 1950’s and the 1960’s. When the fire happens, the season is definitely winter because the text says “ If you stood too far back, the chill of the winter night air, drawn toward the flames, would cut through you”. The narrator grew up in Exeter, New Hampshire, but a big part of the story (the fire) is located in Stratham at Piggy Sneed’s Barn. Lastly, the atmosphere in the story felt very sad, and at the end it was very depressing. You could tell that the narrator felt bad about what he did to Piggy Sneed, and it was upsetting when the narrator had to drag out what was left …show more content…

The first character trait to describe him would be peculiar, because he is very different then other people. One of the ways he was different is because he lived with pigs. The second character trait that I would describe him with is introverted. He does everything by himself and he doesn't talk to other people. An example of this would be when the narrator's grandmother tried to make conversation with him, but he wasn't able to.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is written in first person. This is because it is a memoir and it contains pronouns such as “I” and “my”. Harrison Bergeron is written in third person omniscient because George and Hazel’s point of view. Lastly, The Tell Tale Heart is written in first person because it has pronouns like “I” and

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