"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." Is a wise quote by the famous writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel, he deals with the importance of enjoying one's life despite difficult circumstances. Mr. Zindel proves his point by introducing Mr. Pignati or the Pigman, Lorraine's Mom, and John's Father. Each character has their own individual obstacles that prevent them from being happy.
             Mr. Pignati or the Pigman, in a confusing way, does and does not enjoy living life. In the beginning of the book, the Pigman is in denial that his wife is dead because he loved her so much and she meant so much to him. Infact, he claimed she went to California to visit his sister, because he could not accept the fact that she had died. It was almost like he closed the door to the universe and had no purpose to live. Without his wife Mr. Pignati was amazingly lonely until he began going to the zoo everyday to see Bobo the baboon. Bobo is Mr. Pignati's best friend and is always happy to see Mr. Pignati because he feeds him lots of peanuts. The Pigman feels as if Bobo is the only person that has time to listen to him since no one else ever talks to him. The first time the Pigman introduced Bobo to John and Lorraine, two close friends of his, he was astonishingly excited. "I want you to meet Bobo...my best friend!" (50) Apparently, Bobo is not the only thing Mr. Pignati cares abou!
             t. The additional care is for his collection of pigs. Mr. Pignati's house has an entire room full of pigs, not real pigs, but, glass, marble, and even clay pigs. The pigs were made in many different places, such as Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, and Italy. Each one was a different size, a different color, or had a different look. "There were little pigs and big pigs. Ugly ones and cute ones. There were blue, black, yellow, orange, striped, and rainbow colored pigs. Pig...