The Pigman's Legacy Essays

  • Maturity In The Pigman

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    The Pigman, by Paul Zindel, was written with the intended audience of young adults, and due to such, presents a variety of themes that all remain relevant to the adolescent mind and ideology. These themes range from the determination of guilt and responsibility, to the ultimate acceptance of mortality and existentialism, including the dread that comes with it. However, the most prevalent theme in the novel seems to regard maturity, and more specifically, the lack of correlation between age and maturity

  • Summary Of The Pigman By Paul Zindel

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    The Pigman by Paul Zindel is narrated, in alternating chapters, by two high school sophomores, Lorraine Jenson, and John Conlan. The author obviously had a high level of proficiency to create such an interesting story and characters with very detailed traits . Lorraine is a sensitive, compassionate girl who tends to become mortified over simple things. Conversely, John is a complicated boy who lies to his teachers and is in constant conflict with his father. Some of his avocations are playing

  • Compare and Contrast Lorraine Jenson and John Conlan

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    How much in common do you think Lorraine Jenson and John Conlan have? How many differences do you think Lorraine Jenson and John Conlan have? Well you are about to find that out. In the book The Pigman, written by Paul Zindel, there are two characters, Lorraine and John in which i am comparing and contrasting. Even though Lorraine doesn't seem like as though she has alot in common with John they can be alike and different in the littlest things possible, such as in physical appearance, in thier behavior

  • The Pigman Essay

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    The book the Pigman by Paul Zindel is a good book. Let me summarize the book for you. John Conlan who is a tenth grader who goes to Franklin High with his friend Lorraine Jensen. The first time they meet each other was on the bus on the way to school. When Lorraine thought that John was acting infantile and started laughing obnoxiously. So Lorraine started laughing obnoxiously. Them and a couple of their other friends Denis and Norton. They play this game to see who can call somebody and stay the

  • The 40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents

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    The 40 Developmental Assets is a list of assets that help young children to understand how relationships with your family and friends work and how teens can live a healthy life with them. One way to better understand the Assets is to look at how the appear in novels. One novel the assets can be seen is The Pigman by Paul Zindel, a book about parents influences on kids and shows childrens care for people they love. Three assets from 40 Developmental Assets were Other Adult Relationship,Honesty,and

  • Zindel's Use of Literary Devices in The Pigman

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    Zindel had a Pigman just like John And Lorraine who helped him through his life and embraced him to be the talented author he really is. He worked first as a technical writer at a chemical company then as a high school chemistry teacher. As he taught he continued to write plays, Marigolds of his plays was soon turned into a television show. A children's book editor from Harper and Row asked Zindel if he wanted to be a writer and he accepted. He soon came out with The Pigman a Story about two teenagers

  • John In The Pigman

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    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 that immense when they first started 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 friends avocations were prank calling people. They made it a game where they tried to witness who could carry out a conversation with a random individual on the phone

  • Short Summary Of The Pigman By Paul Zindel

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    The Pigman by Paul Zindel is about the lives of an old man, Mr.Pigman, and two teenagers, John and Lorraine. John and Lorraine were two “normal” children that went to school and had a rough time in their homes. The growing bond between John and Lorraine all started when one day John and Lorraine met on the school bus one morning. Due to the fact that the first time they met was on a school bus, there was no room for mortification to occur. Soon after, John started getting himself into trouble at

  • The Pigman Essay

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    Have you ever wondered what makes your life complete? A recent study has come up with a list of 40 Developmental Assets that help lead teens build a happy and successful life. These assets will allow someone to look at their life and see what assets they are lacking. Throughout the book these assets play a big role in the final outcome of the story. In The Pigman one of the main characters is John Conlan and despite having an absence of family support and a lack of responsibility he is proven to

  • What Does The Pigman Represent

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    Zindel does an excellent job of creating the primary characters, John Conlan, Lorraine Jensen, and Mr. Pignati. As Committee Chair Mary Long, a teacher-librarian at Wilson Middle School in Plano, Texas, said "Paul Zindel knows and understands the reality young adults deal with day-to-day. He has the ability to depict young adults in an honest and realistic way. The characters he developed nearly 40 years ago still speak to today's teens." ("2002 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner Paul Zindel.") Zindel