The story I read, The Pigman, written by Paul Zindel, was a
exciting, unpredictable, and totally believable book. You could
understood where it was trying to take you. What I'm going to try and
tell you in the following paper, the reason why John and Lorraine did
"If you ask me, I think he would have died anyway. Maybe we
speeded things up a little, but you really can't say we murdered
I have to agree with what John is saying. John and Lorraine
could not have killed him, they made him last longer. Mr.Pignati was
dying of loneliness inside. Once he found out Bobo died, he would have
died anyway. In a way Mr.Pignati was using them. He needed someone
to talk to, someone to love him. He made John and Lorraine feel so
guilty, that he got all that from them. John had a little bit to do with
his death. The heartache made him more weaker. When he found out
Bobo died, his heart could not take it anymore. The only two people
he had trusted with everything in a long time, had also betrayed him
by throwing that party and trashing his house, that weakened his
heart. Including how at the beginning, the way John used Mr.Pignati
without him knowing, in a way, I'm pretty sure Mr.Pignati knew.
In the end it turned out they really loved him, more than they
thought they did. Lorraine was heartbroken throughout the beginning
and the end. She never wanted to go to his house with John. She was
a stand by for John. In a way they did murder him, but on accident.
They didn't know they could hurt him. They sure did speed it up
though by the whole roller-skating incident. John led him up the stairs
at a fast exuberating pace. All of a sudden, Pigman fell down, grabbing
his chest. That was John's fault, he should have known better, but he
You can't say they murdered him. If anything, Mr.Pignati kil
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