Lorraine And The Pigman

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The story is told, in alternating chapters, by the two high school sophomores, Lorraine Jenson and John Conlan, also known as the two main characters. There good friends because there avocations are generally the same, they both dislike school and their shared absurd sense of humor. With their friends that are nerds, Norton and Dennis, they prank-call Mr. Pignati and end up going to his house prevarication to collecting money for the "L. and J. Fund." Mr. Pignati is very antagonistic and invites them to go to the zoo the next day. Mr. Pignati shows Lorraine and John his collection of ceramic pigs, which he and his wife started together when he gave her a ceramic pig as a joke, to remind her of him. Lorraine feels mortified about taking his …show more content…
Pignati they see all kinds of animals some that are nocturnal and diurnal. Then they meet a baboon named Bobo who he calls his best friend. After their trip to the zoo, Lorraine and John's friendship with Mr. Pignati gets closer and better, and they give him an affectionate nickname, "the Pigman," though they always address him as "Mr. Pignati."
They begin to go to Mr. Pignati's house nearly every afternoon or evening, and he always makes them feel much more comfortable than they feel at their own homes. Mr. Pignati invites them to take a look around the house, and John and Lorraine learn that Mrs. Pignati is dead when John finds a funeral bill for "Conchetta Pignati." They drink wine, play word games, and go to a department store where Mr. Pignati buys strange gourmet food, such as snails and chocolate-covered ants, which he proudly shares with them. One day when Mr. Pignati and them are out he buys all three of them roller
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Also how good their friendship is they feel ingrate, and increasingly guilty for how they lied to Mr. Pignati and taken his money. John and Lorraine tell him that they are not charity workers, out of the blank silence Mr. Pignati starts crying and tells them his wife is dead. Lorraine and John cheer him up by playing tag with their roller skates on, and Mr. Pignati joins in. He has a heart attack, and goes to the hospital in an ambulance. Lorraine is having anxiety and panicking about Mr.Pignati, yet John is calm and saw that he was breathing and awake when the ambulance took him out.
John and Lorraine go to the hospital and tell the workers they are Mr.Pignati's children because only family members can go in at visiting hours. When they have their vist time with him, Mr.Pignati tells them to make their self at home while he’s gone. Also to take a visit to the zoo once in awhile and talk to Bobo and feed him. The night that John and Lorraine are there Lorraine makes hors d’oeuvres and later John and her kiss for the first

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