Symbols In The Pigman

The Pigman by Paul Zindel is a book that has many symbols, and means of those symbols can be explained to the farthest extent. This will talk about some of the many symbols that are used in this story. Let’s start at the beginning of the story when Lorraine’s mother says “You’re not a pretty girl, Lorraine”(Pg.6). This is one thing that could mean many things cause why would a mother tell her daughter that she doesn’t look pretty or that she is fat. There is this reason it is that she is trying to protect her daughter from things in the outside world. We do know that Lorraine’s mother is pretty and the father is gone, she could be doing this to try and not let Lorraine make the same decision that she made. There is another reason for this that a young mother raising a baby alone with no father is hard and she doesn’t want Lorraine to do the same. On the other hand, John has a

When she says There was something about his voice that made me feel sorry for him, I began to wish I never bothered him that is the very beginning of a friendship or a strong bond between Lorraine, John, and Mr.Pignati. Throughout the story, the bond between and the trustworthiness Between Mr.Pignati to Lorraine and John gets strong because when Mr.Pignati has to go to the hospital and Lorraine and John go and give Mr.Pignati his keys to his house but he says that they could keep them. That shows how much he trusts them, he has been alone for a while and now he finally has someone to talk to and have fun with.He told Lorraine and John that his wife was on a vacation in California, but he hasn’t accepted his wife's death and Lorraine and John later find out that she is dead and that Mr.Pignati lied to them but they know why. When Mr.Pignati took them to the zoo, he introduced them to