Pigman

Now Lorraine can blame all the other things on me, merely she was the one who picked out the Pigmans phone number. If you ask me, I regain he would have died anyway. Maybe we speeded things up a little, but you really cant say we murder him. Not murdered him. (ch 1, pg 13) In fact, if Lorraine felt wish saying one of us murdered Mr. Pignati, she should have blamed Norton. Hes the one who finally caused all the trouble. (ch 1, pg 14) Everything that happened from and so on after they visit Mr. Pignati in the hospital Lorraine blames me for, and maybe shes right. ch 14, pg 121) Finally I managed to lift my head and saw Mr. Pignati at the door. He was just standing there flavour down at me, and there was no smile on his face. No smile at all. Thats when I passed out. (ch 13 pg 114) In fact, the thing Lorraine and I want better about the Pigman was that he didnt go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . . (ch 2, pg 24) Baboons. Baboons . They build their own cages, we could al or so hear Mr. Pignati whisper, as he took his children with him. (ch 15, pg 149) But I gave up all that kid stuff at once that Im a sophomore. The only thing I do now that is faintly criminal is write on desks. (ch 1, pg. 3) Would you handle a grump of wine? Mr. Pignati offered, straightening up a few things in the living room. It was great how happy he was to see us. I cant remember Bore, or my mother any for that matter, ever verbal expressioning happy to see me, let alone when I came into the house with a friend. (ch 7, pg 56) John is trying to understand his and Lorraines role in Mr. Pignatis death.He seems opened about their degree of responsibility If Nortons actions were the final, most immediate cause of Mr. Pignatis final illness and death, does this mean that only Norton is responsible? John still stops absolutely of accepting full responsibility for the disaster of the party and its effect on Mr. Pignati This is a moment of horror for John, when Mr. Pignati returns from the hospital unexpectedly and sees the damage to his house and, most of all, his pig collection. This is one of the very few times that Mr. Pignati doesnt greet John with a big smile.That john doesnt like old people to go around saying cool sayings. That the baboon was somehow connected to the Pigman. That he somewhat hypothesises of himself as a grown up There is an enormous contrast surrounded by the lack welcome Lorraine and John feel in their own homes and the incredibly welcome Mr. Pignati gives them. We still pretended we were John and Lorraine Pignati because only members of the immediate family were allowed to visit. (ch 11,pg 105) I think cemeteries are one of the loveliest places to beif youre not dead, of course.The hills and green grass and flowers are much nicer than what you get what youre alive. Sometimes we go there at midnight and hide tooshie stones to scare the $% out of each other. (ch 7, 55) By the time we lef t, I was so glad to see the outside world I thought I had been in prison for seventy-three years. The smell of hospitals always makes me think of death. In fact I think hospitals are exactly what graveyards are supposed to be like. They ought to block people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries (ch 11, pg 104)The position of Mr. Pignatis head on the floor made his face look a little like my fathers and I didnt like the feeling it gave me. Up until then I had never been particularly disturbed about seeing a corpseeven when Id have to sit for an hour or so at a funeral parlor when some relative had died. (ch 15,pg 148) No, no, no, she said in her best grating voice, all the while shining the coffee table in our sparkling living room, which sparkles because nobodys allowed to live in it. Shes got plastic covers on everything.I mean, I like my Mom and all that, but she runs around like a chicken with its head cut off. (ch 5, pg 28) The house Mr. Pignatis had a ni ce warm smell to it. We had to head through a hall that had a lot of old junk stored in it, and then we went into this living room that had all that old kind of stuffed article of furniture with lace things that cover the arms so you dont wear them out. (ch 5, pg 31) I didnt want anyone really to take expediency of the old man. Some people might think thats what I was doing, but not the way Norton would have. ch 5, pg 35) That John and Lorraine are so use to the Pigman that they act like his own children John and Lorraine have figuratively assumed the identities of Mr. Pignatis children, and now they assume these identities literally Ironically, John feels more at home in cemeteries than in his own home. John demonstrates the originality of his thought. His reflection that hospitals are deadly and cemeteries are peaceful and full of greenery actually makes sense That the Pigman looked like his Dad and he even worried about his dad dieingJohn describes a living room, which, ironic ally, no one is allowed to live in Mr. Pignatis house is a complete opposite to Johns. It has a nice warm smell, not a germicidal smell it is cluttered with old junk, not obsessively neat and it has a comfortable living room with comfortable furniture, not covered with plastic. This sure seems like another instance where John is trying, successfully, to convince himself that taking money from an old man under a false pretext is not taking advantage of him.