In the book The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, two high school sophomores, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, tell the story of how the two met and became friends. Additionally, they communicate the events leading up to them meeting and befriending an older gentleman who later dies as a result of their actions.
John, who throughout his high school career had an avocation in causing trouble in school, met Lorraine one day on the bus. Lorraine had just recently moved to the area and was a bit socially awkward. While on the bus, John began to laugh, making Lorraine feel mortified and have anxiety. Lorraine thought John was laughing at her but after talking it through Lorraine realized he was not laughing at her and they became friends.
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common for John and Lorraine, along with their friends Norton and Dennis, to prank call people after school. Thier objective was to keep the people they were prank calling on the phone for as long as possible. One day in particular, they placed a prank call to a man named Angelo Pignati, pretending to be charity workers for a charity named the “L and J Fund”. Mr. Pignati was quite talkative during this call and he kindly agrees to donate money to the fake charity. The following day, John and Lorraine go to Mr.
Pignati’s house to collect the money. Mr. Pignati welcomes them with open arms, telling John and Lorraine to make themselves comfortable. After some pleasant conversation with John and Lorraine, Mr. Pignati invites the two to come along with him to the zoo the next day. Before leaving Mr. Pignati’s house on the first day, he shows John and Lorraine the pig collection he started with his wife. Mr. Pignati explained to the two that he started the collection with his wife when they had first met so that she would remember him. John and Lorraine leave Mr. Pignati's house but not before John requests the charitable donation from Mr. Pignati that he had agreed to give to the “L and J …show more content…
Fund”. The next day, John and Lorraine visit the zoo with Mr. Pignati, who again is generous to the two. Even though the three had a nice day at the zoo, Lorraine spent much of her time obsessing over what she believed were bad omens. Some of the bad omens included the antagonistic peanut lady and a child in the nocturnal house who stared at Lorraine as if she were the exhibit. During their visit to the zoo, Mr Pignati introduces them to his friend, a baboon in the monkey house, named Bobo. After the trip to the zoo, Mr.
Pignati, Lorraine, and John become close. John and Lorraine begin visiting with Mr. Pignati at his house every day after school. Because of their friendship, John and Lorraine begin to nickname Mr. Pignati the Pigman, but they never say it around him. At the house, the three friends talk, drink wine, and snack on food. John and Lorraine feel more at home in Mr. Pignati’s houses than they do in their own homes. This is due to the fact that John and Lorraine are shown little affection and caring for from their own parents. Mr. Pignati invites John and Lorraine to explore his house and feel at home there. One day while wandering the house, John comes across a funeral bill for Mr. Pignati’s wife, Conchetta Pignati. Mr. Pignati had told John and Lorraine that his wife was visiting her sister in California. Realizing that Mr. Pignati’s wife is dead, John tells Lorraine. It is at this point that John and Lorraine grasp how lonely Mr. Pignati has
been. Following their discovery of the funeral bill, Mr. Pignati takes John and Lorraine to the local store, Beekman’s, where they try odd gourmet food that Mr. Pignati’s wife loved. Lorraine considers the food he acquaints them with to be putrid. During the visit, Mr. Pignati buys Lorraine and John, who was an ingrate about the ordeal, many gifts, including a pair of roller skates for each. Norton, one of John and Lorraine’s friends who was with them when they originally prank called Mr. Pignati, becomes curious as to why John and Lorraine have been spending a lot of time with Mr. Pignati. Interested in what is so exciting about Mr. Pignati’s house, Norton asks John why they are always at the house. During this conversation, Norton indicates to John that he plans to break into the house and steal from Mr. Pignati. As their friendship with Mr. Pignati begins to grow, Lorraine and John begin to feel more and more guilty for lying to him and taking his money. Because of their growing guilt, they decide to tell Mr. Pignati and apologize for their lies, admitting that they were not charity workers but high school students that were playing a prank. After hearing John and Lorraine’s confession, Mr. Pignati starts to sob. He explains that his wife is not really on a trip, but rather she died, which John and Lorraine had already discovered. In an effort to cheer Mr. Pignati up, John and Lorraine play pranks on one another and tell funny jokes. While the two continue to play humorous jokes on one another, John decides to put on his roller skates and start a game of tag with Lorraine. Feeling like he is missing out on all the fun, Mr. Pignati then joins. The three friends race around the house in their roller skates darting around the almost empty rooms, or the kitchen table. Being the thrill seeker that he is, John feels the game becoming mundane. It is at this point that John runs up the stairs to the second floor, coaxing Mr. Pignati to catch him. Enjoying the game, Mr. Pignati follows suit, but as he gets halfway up the staircase, Mr. Pignati suffers from a heart attack. John, knowing what to do, calls 9-1-1, and Mr. Pignati has driven to the hospital in an ambulance. To visit Mr. Pignati in the hospital, John and Lorraine have to lie and state they are his children. They bring stolen flowers for Mr. Pignati and tell him they have locked up his house for him until he gets home. Mr. Pignati proceeds to tell John and Lorraine to keep the keys and make themselves feel at home at his house while he is in the hospital. With Mr. Pignati in the hospital, Lorraine and John have dinner at Mr. Pignati’s house. They also dress up in old clothes of Mr. Pignati and his wife, Conchetta. Caught up in their enjoyment of their enjoyment of the moment, John and Lorraine kiss. Later in the week, John and Lorraine decide to clean the house because they know Mr. Pignati will be coming home soon. Due to his lack of proficiency in cleaning and his infantile behavior, though, John decides to throw a party, inviting only their most “intimate friends”. At first, Lorraine does not agree to the idea. But eventually she relents and agrees to the party and begins preparing by making hors d'oeuvres to serve at the party. For Lorraine to be able to stay at the party, Lorraine and her friend, Jane Appling had to call Lorraine’s mother, Mrs. Jenson a few prevarications. Unexpectedly, the party begins to get out of hand, and the small guest list swells to a larger number as the party continues. Not only did a great number of uninvited people arrive, but Norton also shows up. Aware of Norton’s intentions John keeps a close eye on him. Even with the close monitoring of John, Norton manages to slip away, and attempts to steal an oscilloscope, but John catches him. Angry that Norton was stealing Mr. Pignati’s possessions, John and Norton get into a fight, but Norton escapes into the pig collection room. Still trying to find valuable to steal, Norton smashes the pig collection in search of money. In the midst of the party, Mr. Pignati returns home early to find a wreckage that he called home and his cherished pig collection smashed. This situation put John and Lorraine in a real predicament. The police come to break up the party and end up taking John and Lorraine to their respective houses. When the police car is about to pull away from the house, Lorraine asks if Mr. Pignati is okay. One policeman replies that Mr. Pignati was last seen crying upstairs. The following day, John and Lorraine call Mr. Pignati to apologize about the party and offer to clean up the mess. Mr. Pignati’s side of the phone call is mostly silent, with him occasionally replying to John if he asked, “Mr. Pignati are you still there?” In an effort to cheer Mr. Pignati up, Lorraine and John invite him to the zoo in the afternoon to visit Bobo. When the three arrive at the zoo, they go straight to the monkey house. Upon entering the monkey house, they find Bobo’s cage to be empty. Mr. Pignati is then informed by a zoo worker that Bobo had died a week ago. Seconds later, Mr. Pignati has another heart attack and dies in the monkey house. Overcome with guilt, John and Lorraine blame themselves and one another as the cause of Mr. Pignati’s death and decide to write a memorial about the experience they had with Mr. Pignati.
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funny about a non-funny topic. Later in the story, she slightly laughts at the girls rape
can see this whilst he is still on the farm, as he is always doing