The Pigman Essay

In the book, The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen are in tenth grade at Franklin High. Neither of their experiences were immense when they first entered school there. John used to be known as the Bathroom Bomber his first year at school which left him mortified to enter sophomore year. One of John and his acquaintances avocations were prank calling the community. They made it a game where they tried to witness who could carry out a conversation with a random individual on the phone the longest. None of it got too serious until one night John thought it would be effortless to talk to one of his neighbors on the phone for longer. Mr. Pignati ended up being the victim John talked to during the night. Despite the fact

in which Mr. Pignati had no problem talking to them, overall everything went smoothly. Long hours went by until Mr Pignati finally asked why they had called him. John ended up coming up with a prevarication saying he played an essential role in an organization and they were collecting donations. To make it seem less like it was a trick, Lorraine and John were destined to go to the Pigman's house later in the week to collect the money. When they visited, Mr. Pignati was delighted to see them since he was lonely. The entire time they were there, John was acting in an unsure way. After being there for a while, Mr. Pignati offered for John and Lorraine to go to the zoo with him tomorrow. They were hesitant at first, yet subsequently thinking over it, they decided it would be a cordial gesture to do so. The following day when they reached the zoo, Lorraine saw a ton of omens that frenzied her. To begin with, when they first accessed the zoo, they wanted to buy peanuts, however, the lady at the stand selling them was antagonistic. Additionally, there was the peacock who wouldn’t leave her alone. Although, the third omen happened in the nocturnal room. This omen wasn’t the animals, it was the child sitting on the railing, staring at them as if they were the bats. At the zoo, Mr. Pignati showed Lorraine and John his favorite area of the zoo, the baboons. Of course when Mr. Pignati took them there, he explained to them Bobo is his best friend, and he tries to visit him once a day to feed him peanuts. Lorraine and John started getting closer to Mr. Pignati and ended up going to the zoo with him daily. Every day when Lorraine would be there, there would be a different omen she noticed. One day it was a worker feeding the seals in a mundane way. On the contrary, Lorraine started realizing why she stopped going to the zoo with her family.
They established a ritual that they would travel to the Pigman's house every day succeeding school and periodically skip school to spend the day at his house.

Mr. Pignati would provide the wine and snacks and infrequently, dinner. On nights that Lorraine and John didn’t show up, they would go to the cemetery to drink beer at one of the tombs. For the most part, Mr. Pignati enjoyed spoiling them and acting as if they were his own kids. One day they decided they were going to go shopping. Nevertheless, they ended up zooming through the mall in roller skates. The time that Lorraine and John spent with Mr. Pignati was fulfilled with happiness considering when they reported home they dealt with ingrate parents. Mr. Pignati was always in a positive and cheerful mood, therefore it wasn’t difficult for them to entertain him. One day when they arrived at his house, he seemed depressed and sad. This was the same day that they figured out that Conchetta, Mr. Pignati's wife, wasn’t in fact on vacation, nonetheless, she had died a couple years ago. They wanted to find a way to get him upbeat again so they settled on getting the roller skates out. John was the first one zooming around until Lorraine joined in and eventually Mr. Pignati didn’t want to be missing out on the amusement so he joined. In a matter of seconds, everyone was chasing each other around the house until John started climbing the stairs with Mr. Pignati following him. Lorraine was behind John and Mr. Pignati and was the first to notice when Mr. Pignati collapsed and began having a heart attack. Neither John or Lorraine had ever been in a predicament this horrific before and neither of them knew what to perform. In the end they called 911 and when the police arrived, they answered questions about him, however, when they started getting more exclusive, they had no choice except to make up explanations. While he was in the hospital, they visited him a few times, but they were required to lie and say

they were his kids to get in. The whole time he was kept in the hospital, Lorraine had horrible anxiety that he wasn’t going to live and that it would be all of their faults.
Since John and Lorraine was telling the population that they are Mr. Pignati's kids, they had to be extra careful that their actual parents didn’t hear what happened or they would have both been in a lot of trouble. They made the decision that they were still going to go to his house every day ensuing school to clean it up and make sure no one broke in since they thought they were the reason he was in the hospital. One day while they were at Mr. Pignati's house they decided that they were going to clean everything up. To begin with, Lorraine asked John to take the trash out or wash the dishes while she cleaned everything else but he was acting infantile and wouldn’t clean anything. After a little bit of cleaning Lorraine prepared dinner for John and herself when John came up with the fantastic idea of having a party with a bunch of companions at Mr. Pignati's house. That night when they invited all of their classmates, they had a bunch of tiny hors d’oeuvres and alcohol for all of the kids. All of the odors mixed together gave off a putrid stench that night. The only problem was that the night didn’t go exactly as planned. Enemies of theirs who weren’t suppose to show up, showed up, pigs from the pig collection were being broken, Conchetta's dresses were being tried on and ripped by the girls, people were rolling around the house with roller skates, most importantly, Mr. Pignati came home from the hospital early with the house in the state that they left it. That night, the police escorted Lorraine and John home, but John was too drunk to remember it anyway. Lorraine got into a tremendous amount of trouble while John was only given the talk about what he did wrong and why it was wrong. The next day they went to the liquor store and used the pay phone there to call Mr. Pignati. They begged him to let them come over and clean, but he said it was already completed so they begged him to go to the zoo with them later that day. After a couple moments of complete silence, Mr. Pignati agreed to go. When they arrived at the zoo, they waited a little bit of time until they thought that Mr. Pignati wouldn’t show up. After waiting a little while longer, Mr. Pignati arrived in a taxi. They explored the rest of the zoo until they arrived at the space that Bobo was kept. Since it was becoming colder, they put the animals inside. They peered through the monkeys, but Bobo wasn’t in any of them. Mr. Pignati was yelling out Bobos name until one of the workers stopped him and told him that he passed away earlier that week. The glimpse of shock on Mr. Pignati's face made both Lorraine and John overwhelmingly worried until Mr. Pignati collapsed and stopped breathing. They yelled for someone to call 911 but they knew by the time they got there Mr. Pignati would have already have been too far gone. Once they took Mr. Pignati, Lorraine couldn’t stop going through all of the memories her, John, and Mr. Pignati had in her head. For instance, buying the roller skates, going to the zoo every day, but overall, the proficiency that Mr. Pignati had while throwing Bobo the peanuts. They would miss Mr. Pignati very much, but they were compelled to move on with their lives.