“When you walk out of a storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That is what the storm’s all about.” This quote from Haruki Murakami explains the events of The Pigman in two sentences. Lorraine and John are going through things that change them forever, good and bad. When they meet Mr. Pignati, they accomplish a friendship that could never be achieved with anyone else. John is going through great change, but Lorraine is becoming a person who can resists temptation from friends, be honest with everyone, and can even find the strength to prevent others from making dreadful choices. Paul Zindel’s miraculous novel, The Pigman, illustrates how Lorraine is resistant to negative peer pressure, honest, and resistant to drugs and alcohol.
One way Lorraine is seen as resistant to negative peer pressure is while she is protecting Mr. Pignati during the telephone marathon. While playing the telephone marathon, Mr. Pignati offers them ten dollars for the L&J Fund. When John hears this generous offer, his …show more content…
John had always been a big drinker, but his other problem was smoking. John has been a smoker for as long as she can remember, and we still do not know why he smokes. Lorraine thinks it may be because of his family, but her main goal with smoking, is trying to get John to stop. She does everything she can to get him to stop. She educates him, finds cases similar to his, shows him the effects of doing so, and eventually, she tiredly admits that she “tried to explain how dangerous smoking was to John”(8). If Lorraine was not resistant to drugs, then she would not care if John smoked. In fact, she might have taken part in his little hobby, but Lorraine is not that kind of person. Lorraine is not only the kind of girl who does not wish to do drugs, but the type of girl who does not want her friends doing so either. For this reason, Lorraine is resistant to