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The Pigman by Paul Zindel

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Author Biography

Name: Paul Zindel
Birth Date: May 15, 1936
Place of Birth: Staten Island, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright, screenwriter, author

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Biography of Paul Zindel
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May 15, 1936. Born in Staten Island, New York. Coming from a broken home, Zindel never knew his father very well. "Mother was a girl in her twenties when my father left. She used to have to fight to get the allowance from him and tried to keep us togethe...
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Biography of Paul Zindel
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Considered a groundbreaking author of young adult literature as well as one of its most controversial contributors, Paul Zindel is well known as the creator of realistic novels that depict the teenage milieu with authenticity, humor, and panache. In addi...
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Biography of Paul Zindel
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Critics of adolescent literature generally cite four novels of the late 1960s as helping this subgenre break its ties with its past formulaic romanticism and move dramatically into a much more realistic mode: The Outsiders (1967) by S. E. Hinton, The Con...
 


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The Pigman Summary
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The Pigman Paul Zindel was born in 1936 in Staten Island, New York, where he and his sister were raised by his mother. He began writing plays in high school and eventually pursued a chemistry degree at nearby Warner College. In college he took a...
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The Pigman Information
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The Pigman is a book for young adults written by Paul Zindel, first published in 1968. There is a sequel called the The Pigman's Legacy. This novel tells the story of two high school sophomores, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, who are disenchanted with...


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The Horn Book Magazine
The Pigman and Me. (sound recording reviews)
05/01/1995: 1,784 words, approx. 6 pages
Reviewing, like writing, illustrating, or editing, requires an act of the imagination, albeit a retroactive one. The reviewer must work backward, imagining the choices made along the way to the final product. After all, that beautiful watercolor was once nothing more than a...
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The Virginian Pilot
HEAD TO PIGMAN'S FOR A PICNIC IN A RESTAURANT.(CAROLINA COAST)(Review)
08/16/2002: 591 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: MARSHA BACENKO THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Lots of Northerners transplants and visitors alike probably think of barbecue they way I did when I got here; throw a slab of meat on the barbie and grill. But it doesn't take long to learn just...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by David Rees
2,455 words, approx. 8 pages
There is something peculiarly subversive about Zindel's books that appeals to the adolescent. Adults, particularly authoritarian figures like policemen or teachers, are usually portrayed in a bad light, and the reader can feel himself happily encapsulated in an immature world in which the young are wronged, misunderstood, and generally knocked about; where the battle-lines between the generations are very clearly drawn; and the teenager who thinks he's got problems can be at ease, identify wit...
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Critical Essay by John Rowe Townsend
481 words, approx. 2 pages
["My Darling, My Hamburger"] seems to me to be a better novel than "The Pigman."… It's the story of two couples in their senior year at high school. One pair, Maggie and Dennis, are squareish, not too attractive, unsure of themselves and each other. The other pair, Liz and Sean, are desperately in love, and the boy is importunate. And he gets his way. (The girl's resistance is ended, convincingly, not by persuasion or passion but because her stepfather is nas...
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Critical Essay by Sally Holmes Holtze
281 words, approx. 1 pages
Four months after the end of The Pigman …, John and Lorraine discover Gus, a sick, lonely old man, living inside Mr. Pignati's house and force themselves on him in friendship. They tell the story [in The Pigman's Legacy] in the same alternating first-person chapters; similarities from the plot (Gus dies at the novel's climax) to small incidents (Gus initiates a psychoanalyzing parlor game as Mr. Pignati did), to vocabulary and jokes … parrot The Pigman, but the strong char...
 
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The Pigman
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Provides a summary, by chapter, of the novel The Pigman, by Paul Zindel. Includes major plot points and character names.
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Analysis of "The Pigman"
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John's Personality
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Essay is about the character of John from "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel.

 


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