The Pigman, by Paul Zindel is a well written book that should be read throughout middle school to highschool.
The Pigman takes place in the sophomore year of the main characters John and Lorraine mainly at the Pigman's house.
The main characters are John, Lorraine, and Mr. Pignati also known as the Pigman John and Lorraine are 15 year olds who are in their sophomore year of highschool, come from miserable homes form a bizarre relationship with an Mr. Pignati who is a lonely old man.
John, Lorraine, and their friends Norton and Dennis were prank calling random numbers from a phone book as a game. When it was Lorraine's turn to pick a number from the phone book, she stumbled upon the Pigman’s number and dial’s it the she pretends to be a charity
In the book the main characters are Jay Berry, Daisy, Rowdy, Grandpa, and the monkeys. The secondary characters are Ma, Pa, Grandma, and Sally Goodin. The beginning started with Jay telling about how his family moved to the Cherokee hills. The book ended with Jay giving his money to Daisy to fix her leg. In the end he ended up getting his pony and twenty-two as well. Money was a problem for Daisy up until the end of the book. There
The book I read this month was Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man. This is the second book in the Sammy Keyes collections by Wendelin Van Draanen. This book is a mystery and has 171 pages.
Anti-Semitism is the hatred and discrimination of those with a Jewish heritage. It is generally connected to the Holocaust, but the book by Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale shows the rise of anti-Semitism from a grassroots effect. Smith uses newspapers, court orders, and written accounts to write the history and growth of anti-Semitism in a small German town. The book focuses on how anti-Semitism was spread by fear mongering, the conflict between classes, and also the role of the government.
One of the main characters is a girl named Jasmine but they call her Jazz for short. Jazz is basically a goth girl and she has black hair with a little pink on top. She goes to high school and is around the age of 15. Jazz is in a pretty bad mood usually but it just depends on what she is doing. The other main character's name is Antonia. Antonia is a very smart girl and helps other people out with their problems. She is like a councilor. She has about shoulder length dirty blond hair and is pretty average in height for her age. She is usually in a good mood but sometimes she can get mad or sad. The last main character is Antonia's mom. She has pretty good attitudes depending on what she feels like. She is in her mid-30's.
The main characters in this story are 6 friends from Cedarville Middle School, a crooked businessman, and a Doberman Pincher. Griffin Bing is, “The Man With The Plan,” and he organizes the missions this group of friends get involved in. Ben Slovak is Griffins best friend and he has a ferret that goes everywhere with him to help him with his narcolepsy or sleep disorder. Pitch Benson is an expert at mountain climbing and she helps them get into impossible places. Melissa Dukakis is a computer expert which comes in handy for eves dropping. Logan Kellerman is an actor and he is good at distracting people. Savannah Drysdale is an animal whisperer which has helped them get past guard dogs. S. Wendell Palomino or, “Swindle” is a crooked businessman who has caused these friends a lot of problems. Luthor is a huge temperamental Doberman who be...
The satire Animal Farm by George Orwell expresses the idea of self-government through the animals. The animals play the role of humans, in this way using most, if not all, of the human characteristics.
Barney, the main character in the story, is a teenage boy who has to stay another boring summer at his parents vacation rental. Barney knows that the man who stayed there previously, is a Captain that had a insane brother, that just so happened to stay in Barney’s room, locked up, for 20 years in that room for being insane. He finds out that their is a group of teenagers his age, named, Zana, Manny, and Joe, that live at the cottage next door. When Barney meets them, he learns that their favorite activity is to play a board game called Interstellar Pig, weird right? Same name as the title of the book. Zena, gives him a brief description on the rules. Rules: Each player picks their character from a stack of cards. The characters are aliens with different
case, it is a story about a group of pigs taking over a farm, and the
There is a large cast of characters including the priest Sarastro (a very serious, proselytizing basso), the Queen of the Night (a mean, angry, scheming coloratura), and her daughter, the beautiful and courageous Pamina. There is the handsome hero, Tamino, on the quintessential road trip, and his cohort in misadventure, the bird seller, Papageno. Papageno ultimately finds his Papagena (who starts out disguised as a crone), Tamino ultimately wins Pamina, Sarastro presumably wins a passle of converts, and everyone goes home humming the catchy Mozart melodies. It is all presented in a plot complicated by a dragon, a threesome of warbling ladies in service to the Queen of the Night, another threesome of boy-angels, even a bully - Monostatos, guard for the Queen. It is lightened by such elements as locked lips, charmed animals, and, of course, a magic flute.
The novel, A Day No Pigs Would Die, is mostly about Peck, with a little bit of fiction. The book starts of with Robert Peck being made fun of because of the way that he dresses, and Robert imagined that the bully would “bleed like a stuck pig.” He then tried to save a fleei...
Alice: Well, I’ve never seen anything like that before! Curiouser and curiouser! To think that a perfectly normal boy could turn into a pig seems quite incredible and indeed, mad! But actually, it probably was all the better for that poor boy. I mean, for one, it was able to escape from that horrible hag of a mother. But also, if it had grown up, he would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig I think. (Chuckles softly to herself) Oh, I say, how funny it would be if one of the boys at school became a pig! Charlie Williams or Clive Lewis! I’d love to see something like that! They are such beastly boys, always calling me names like “Awful Alice” and pulling my hair until I can barely feel it. I wonder how one does turn into a pig…
Some of the main characters are Jane Finn, who was the American trusted to deliver the special package to the American embassy. More main characters are Tommy and Tuppence, who are two friends, and also business partners who are desperately trying to get money any way possible. They end up getting a job to look for Jane Finn and
There are three older boys, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, that have an effect on the group of younger boys. The Main character Ralph, changes throughout the novel because of his role of leadership and responsibility, which shapes him into a more strict but caring character as the group becomes more uncivilized and savage. At the beginning of the story, after the plane crashed on the island and the boys are accounted for, Ralph feels very free and absent. He finds a lagoon with warm water, and just like any other twelve year old boy, he goes for recreational swimming. Whizzoh!
The three disabled pigs were thrilled to learn that there was indeed a way to treat the disabilities that they faced - whether it was medicine or therapy. Soon they were able to return to their lives in the wilderness. All of them stayed in the third little piggy’s brick house until the construction of the other two pigs brick homes was complete. then they were able to restart their lives again, and they lived happily ever after.
...People respond to the three pigs because either they have been in the pigs’ position, or they are ready to learn from the pigs’ experience. Everyone faces his own personal “wolf” that bares its teeth and threatens to blow away his foundation, but “The Three Little Pigs” offers hard work and determination as a solution to any problem that seems insurmountable. Proper preparation prevents poor performance regardless of the situation, and the three pigs show that sometimes, a poor performance might be the last one.