The Pigman Essay

The story “The Pigman” by Paul Zindel is a very good book in my opinion. The book is about two kids who’s avocation is pranking. They love to prank people when they are with eachother. When they prank people they sometimes mortify them and try to make them look bad or stupid. In the story the one main charachter Lorraine, called a man by the name of Angelo Pignati and he anwsered the phone. Lorraine decided to Have some prevarications. She told Mr. Pignati that she and the other main charachter John, were charity workers and they wanted a donation. Mr. Pignati agreed to it and he said that they should come over to his house so he could give the money to them in person. They agreed to do that and they went over to his house the next day. Lorraine was antagonistic and did not want to collect the money while John really wanted to get the money from him. They both went over to the pigmans to collect the money.

Then Mr. Pignati anwsered the door. He invited them in and asked if they wanted a glass of wine. Then the pigman asked them if they wanted to go to the zoo with them and they decided to say yes. They went to the zoo with Mr.Pignati and he showed them all of the animals. Then he showed them his favorite, Bobo. They then became very good friends with Mr.Pignati.At first John did act like an ingrate for a little but then he was grateful. They went to the zoo a lot and they were with eachother a lot. Then one day when they are at Mr.Pignati’s John finds Conchetta’s funeral papers. That is when they found out that she was dead. Mr. Pignati looked at them as if they were his own kids and whenever they were in public they would say that they were his kids or his grandchildren. He even fed them a lot of weird dishes like snails and suprisingly it was not