The Pigman Symbolism

1. Friendship plays a major role in the novel, The Pigman. One event that shows how the friendship develops throughout the book, is how John and Lorraine became friends on the bus. At first Lorraine thinks that John is making fun of her because she's laughing on the bus but soon she finds out that he just wants to be her friend. After becoming friends John and Lorraine soon grow up, connect and start having a closer relationship with each other. John and Lorraine also play phone tag with each other because they live fairly closer. They have a special system so when there's one ring they know to meet at the corner of their houses so then they can hang out. This shows that friendship is a big part of John and Lorraine's life because that is

Symbolism played a major role in the novel The Pigman. In the book there were many times where an object stood for something else. When Lorraine and John when to Beekman’s with Mr. Pignati they went to the pet section and looked at all the animals the store had to offer, one of which being three monkeys. the monkeys were goofing around and hugging each other. The monkey’s symbolize the friendship between John, Lorraine and Mr. Pignati and how they are just like monkeys when they are together having fun. In addition to the monkeys another symbolism in the novel was when Lorraine, John and the Pigman went to zoo and seen the bats in the cages. The bats in the cage symbolized how John and Lorraine are in cages and are trapped because they don’t fit into society’s idea of how they should be. They also don’t meet their parent’s standards of them and feel like they are in a cage, trapped because they can’t make them happy. When the Pigman told John and Lorraine about the story about the wife and the bridge and the killer it symbolized how the reader doesn’t really know who was responsible for Mr. Pignati’s death and the betrayal of John and Lorriane like the wife in the story. Another symbol in the story is the breakable glass, marble pig collection of Mr. Pignati’s. In the story, the collection means a lot to Mr. Pignati because it is all that he has left of his wife Conchetta, so when the pigs get broken at the party The Pigman becomes upset and broken as if he just lost his wife. This also represents how Mr. Pignati’s life is becoming broken and could end