Preview

The Pigman And Me-Personal Narrative

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
2597 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Pigman And Me-Personal Narrative
The Pigman & Me
Chapter 1
I am a tall, skinny, teenage boy with blond hair. I live with my older sister Betty and my mom. My parents are divorced and dad left us when I was two years old. We move a lot because mom has trouble paying the rent on time. We don’t have a lot of money. We were all in the car on the way to our new house when I found my pet chameleon Albert in my moms coffee cup. He got out of his cage and was missing for weeks. When I found Albert in my moms coffee cup he was dead. Mom pulled over so
I could bury him. Then we got back in the car to go to our new house.
Chapter 2 When my mom, Betty and I pulled up in front of our new house in Staten Island we were excited. The house was brown and green and had a big yard. The best part was that it had a huge apple tree in the yard. The worst part was all of the cockroaches inside.
I hate cockroaches! Mom set up cockroach killer and we left to go to the movies. When we got back I opened the closet door and 5,000 cockroaches fell out onto me. I started screaming and mom promised to get more cockroach
…show more content…
My mom got us four dogs from her job at the animal shelter (one of them named “Lady” was my dog), Connie began to date a butcher she met named Chops, and Jennifer and I spent a lot of time in our apple tree eating apples and talking about everything. It was almost time for school to start, so mom took Betty and I to the Salvation Army to get some back-to-school clothes. I was starting to get nervous about starting at a new school with all new kids.
Jennifer told me all about the kids that I would meet, but I was still really nervous.
Nonno Frankie saw that I was scared about starting at a new school and he started to talk to me and joke with me to calm me down. He gave me lots of advice and told me to just be myself and be happy with who I am. Nonno Frankie was becoming my pigman.A pigman is someone who helps

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Eulogy of Piggy

    • 321 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I hadn’t met Piggy before the crash. All I remember was waking up after it happened, and found a boy lying near a tree. When I walked over to him, we introduced each other. I told him my name was Ralph, and waited for a reply in return. But he hesitated to tell me his name was Piggy, as he thought I would I would tease him, but I told him that I would never tease him about it. Later we found the conch to help us locate the other boys who had survived. When we went around introducing ourselves to the others, they weren’t so lenient on teasing Piggy.…

    • 321 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    I see it! No way. It’s crawling briskly near me. That roach is coming closer and closer to my feet as if I had sugar all around it. I am alone and no one is in the house and I had to kill it. I had to try. I got a fly swatter and quietly tiptoed near the roach. As fast as the speed of lightning, I swatted the fly swatter on the roach, hearing a crunching sound. I have been courageous when I killed a roach because to kill a roach, I had to be still, I had to kill it with something, and I had to stay quiet; killing a roach is very arduous and challenging.…

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    We started walking towards the gate and started going towards the side of the school. There we saw all of our friends, and we all started having conversations and getting pumped up.…

    • 625 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    my cousins and rough house. When we were called in for supper all I could think was how much…

    • 838 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Do you agree that you can tell if kids will be a successful contributing adults from when they are teenagers? Developmental Assets are good qualities a kid can posses to have a good successful future for himself. A search Institute have identified these assets to make a healthy developing life. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel we notice that the protagonist John doesn't have many assets.Although some might say John will grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because he has Positive Peer Influence. John won't grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because positive Family Support, and Learning engagement.…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Before becoming the half man-half rodent vigilante of Brooklyn, New York City that we know of today, Our hero was by the name of Marcus Williams, A normal everyday sewage worker but Marcus did not think that his identity will soon change by a day at his own workplace he will never forget as life as he lives. One day on the job as Marcus arrived at his job his supervisor asked Marcus “Marcus, We heard that there is a pipe leakage at Area M.19 pipe.58 and can I count on you to see what the problem is for us?” Marcus answered yes I can just let me get my leakage gear, torch and pipe welder. “Ok Marcus do what you got to do, hey that’s what we pay you for.” So Marcus hurried with his gear on…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Virgil Monologue

    • 1045 Words
    • 5 Pages

    About two 2 years ago when I lived in a family of four, my…

    • 1045 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hi my name is Katt James and middle school is my kingdom. My boyfriend is my king well sort of more like a crush who I am about 75% sure likes me back! My best friend, Bella is always here for me no matter how mad I make her day to day.…

    • 1586 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    So before the bugs, my night started off pretty normal, I would even say relaxing. I was at home hanging out with my friend Betty. We were watching whatever was playing on TV back in 2000. After watching what…

    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The first thing I decided to do was to drag my shoes out for them but they didn’t believe me. So they didn’t think it was me so they took them away because they thought I was going to chew them up. Then after that they kicked me out of the house cause they didn’t know who I was. After that I just sat out there and did nothing.…

    • 129 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    It had been about a month and a half since I had moved in with my boyfriend (at the time) Josh and his mother, Dawn. I moved in just a few days shy of my 18th birthday because I was now an adult and since I was adult I knew everything. God, didn’t even know how to do laundry……

    • 1403 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Of my mother’s old bedroom Because we knew they would come again Ready to kill, to bring the pain. I remember staying in silence for…

    • 300 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    ¨I wish for this day to start over!!¨ I yelled. The monkey's paw shook in my hand, I dropped it. Then time just seemed to freeze the monkey's paw was slowly fading disappearing you could say as it was getting closer to the ground. My wife, Mrs.White was getting closer to opening the front door scared of what my eyes might see I closed them. Wishing everything went away I opened my eyes to see a white light had filled the room but still very slowly like everything else moving.…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Going the Distance

    • 3204 Words
    • 13 Pages

    Most of my childhood was spent hidden in those roach-infested apartments. I remember sitting in my closet one night. It was dark, and I would wonder why life was so painful for me; it felt like hundreds of roaches were crawling on me. I would kill the ones I could by pinching them with my fingers. It kind of took my anger out. I was a bully to those little bugs.…

    • 3204 Words
    • 13 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Shed then go on to tell me how she had to walk everywhere she went, kids didn’t have tv to entertain them; typical old people stories. When we finally got to begin baking is when the kitechen filled with food and mouthwatering…

    • 435 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays