“The Pigman” is a well written and intriguing novel about friendship and trust, by Paul Zindel. I will be honest, I’m not the one who enjoys reading novels, but this book was different it had me hooked from the first line: “Now, I don’t’ like school, which you might say….” The words that were used in the first line were gravitating and had emotion. This book was unique because the plot was laid out from the past and about two teenagers experiences of meeting an old man and befriending him, but later on the old man dies. The story itself was unusual, but had some great parts. I enjoyed how the author had chosen to write the story from two different point of views John who is more laid back, and Lorraine who stresses about everything, because