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Avocations Of At The Pigman
At the Pigman Mr. Pignati had different avocations in the story, like collecting pig which mortified John and Lorraine. In the story, there were also a lot of prevarications because Lorraine had to lie to her mom to go see the Pigman because she wouldn’t have trusted her. The antagonist of the story would have to be Lorraine, in the beginning of the story she didn’t want to go get the money from the Pigman when they called him for the prank they did. I would say that Lorraine mom had a lot of anxiety in the story, she was always worrying about Lorraine and where she was and what she was doing. An ingrate in the story would have to be Norton, it seems like he doesn’t really care about other people's feelings. Lorraine and John were nocturnal

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