The Pigman Chapter Summaries

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This book begins at the end where it is a year later then from when everything happened. They are writing a book in alternating authors about the Pigman and to tell their story about him. John and Lorraine are in tenth grade. They are each social outcasts and met on a bus and became friends. John, Lorraine Denise, and Norton all play a game where you find a random number in the phone book and call it. You have to see how long you can keep them on the phone. It was Lorraine's turn and when the old man answered she pretended to be a social worker for a charity. He seemed very mundane at first. The man did not ask any questions and offered to donate 10 dollars. John then took the phone and said that they would be over tomorrow to pick it up. The next day John and lorraine skipped school to pick up the money. When they rang the doorbell Lorraine is very nervous and wants …show more content…
They are looking at all the different rooms and lorraine gets a bad omen in the nocturnal room. She begins to have anxiety that something bad will happen. He then shows him his best friend Bobo a monkey in the primate house. After this trip to the zoo there friendship with Mr.Pignati was more …show more content…
Then asks other questions of if there is anything worth stealing in his house and threaten to breaks into Mr.Pignati's house. Later they are at Mr.Pignati's house, John feels mortified by his prevarication with Mr.Pignati and tells him they are not actually social workers. Mr.Pignati also confesses that his wife is not on a vacation in california. He tells that she is dead and begins sobbing. In an attempt to cheer him up he starts a game of tag with their roller skates and John has Mr.Pignati chase him up the stairs. Mr.Pignati is right behind him and has a heart attack and falls down the