Essay On The Pigman
The Pigman
The Pigman, written by Paul Zindel, is about two high school students who were playing a simple game that turned into something much more. Not only did it lead to endless memories, it also led to the death of a human being. John and Lorraine are both in high school, and they were playing a game with their friends Norton and Dennis. The objective was to call a random stranger, and stay on the phone for as long as possible. The group became proficient at this game as they played it very often. Lorraine just so happened to call one Mr. Pignati, a widowed man who was still as joyful a person as anyone could know. Lorraine pretended to be a charity worker, and Mr. Pignati agreed to give her and John 10 dollars if they stopped …show more content…
Pignati was the nicest man one could be, and it probably explains why he took John and Lorraine to the market, and bought them whatever they wanted. Among these were a pair of roller skates for all three of them, and they skated out wearing them as an infantile person would. While these skates seemed all fun and games at the moment, they were not. Just a few days after buying the skates, John, Lorraine, and Mr. Pignati were playing a game of skate tag. The rules were to not allow anyone to go upstairs in their skates during the game; however, John being the antagonistic player that he was did not follow the rules. He went up the stairs and Mr. Pignati chased after him. At this moment, Mr. Pignati suffered from a heart attack. Lorraine was mortified, but John somehow kept his cool and called the police. An ambulance to Mr. Pignati to the hospital where he stayed about a week. This was when Lorraine had the nightmare. This was no mundane nightmare however. It was about Mr. Pignati and his beloved glass pigs that his deceased wife had collected over the years. A silhouette of some sort was forcing Lorraine to enter Mr. Pignati’s room of pigs. There she found a coffin, and she knew Conchetta was in their. This nightmare seemed to symbolize death to Lorraine, but she wasn’t quite sure of the death of whom or
The Pigman, written by Paul Zindel, is about two high school students who were playing a simple game that turned into something much more. Not only did it lead to endless memories, it also led to the death of a human being. John and Lorraine are both in high school, and they were playing a game with their friends Norton and Dennis. The objective was to call a random stranger, and stay on the phone for as long as possible. The group became proficient at this game as they played it very often. Lorraine just so happened to call one Mr. Pignati, a widowed man who was still as joyful a person as anyone could know. Lorraine pretended to be a charity worker, and Mr. Pignati agreed to give her and John 10 dollars if they stopped …show more content…
Pignati was the nicest man one could be, and it probably explains why he took John and Lorraine to the market, and bought them whatever they wanted. Among these were a pair of roller skates for all three of them, and they skated out wearing them as an infantile person would. While these skates seemed all fun and games at the moment, they were not. Just a few days after buying the skates, John, Lorraine, and Mr. Pignati were playing a game of skate tag. The rules were to not allow anyone to go upstairs in their skates during the game; however, John being the antagonistic player that he was did not follow the rules. He went up the stairs and Mr. Pignati chased after him. At this moment, Mr. Pignati suffered from a heart attack. Lorraine was mortified, but John somehow kept his cool and called the police. An ambulance to Mr. Pignati to the hospital where he stayed about a week. This was when Lorraine had the nightmare. This was no mundane nightmare however. It was about Mr. Pignati and his beloved glass pigs that his deceased wife had collected over the years. A silhouette of some sort was forcing Lorraine to enter Mr. Pignati’s room of pigs. There she found a coffin, and she knew Conchetta was in their. This nightmare seemed to symbolize death to Lorraine, but she wasn’t quite sure of the death of whom or