Developmental Assets In The Pigman

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40 developmental assets reflect what you learned in your childhood life. In the novel The Pigman, these assets are shown by all characters. In this novel John allows you to explore the 40 developmental assets, caring, other adult relationships, and honesty. In the beginning of the novel John does not really fit either of those, but as he grows up, he starts to fit into those assets. He was a very bad kid until he met Mr. Pignati, Mr. Pignati was a very kind man who cared for John very well. I think that the caring of Mr. Pignati started to rub off on John. I think that because as John spent more and more time with him he started to become more of a man, and stopped doing the bad things that he was doing.
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With The Pigman is a very good book that has a lot of detail, and that explains what is happening really well. John was one of my favorite characters in the book. I really like him because he was a kid that started out rough, and doing bad things, like fireworks in the bathroom, etc. Then towards the end of the book is started to pull it together, because he had that other adult relationship with Mr. Pignati. It was not only that that made him change into a gentle man. He also was very caring for others. Like John fought Norton Kelly to keep Norton from breaking all of Mr. Pignati’s glass pigs. At that point in the novel that is where John really started to become a man, because that was after the party that he had. And after that party he felt bad, and did not want to have that feeling. John was not honest at all in the beginning of the story. He would lie about everything, like when he let a fireworker off in the bathroom he said that he did not do it. There wa one part in the story that he was completely honest. At first Lorraine, and John had prank called Mr. Pignati an told him that they were charity workers, but then later John had the guts to tell Mr. Pignati that they were not charity workers. The book The Pigman was a great book, i like it alot, and I recommend it to anyone that likes to

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