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The Pigman also loses his best friend, Bobo. His death at the zoo was too much for this man, resulting in a heart attack that killed him. His death was the kids losing their dear friend, but also their innocence.
Mr. Pignati's wife is actually dead, and he has few friends, but he goes to the zoo frequently to visit and feed his "best friend," Bobo, a vicious baboon. The zookeeper dislikes Bobo because he's mean-tempered, but Mr. Pignati is so pure of heart that he can see no evil in anyone or anything, and believes Bobo is filled with all the love and ...
Initially, Lorraine refuses because she feels guilty that they took his money. But after an unpleasant encounter with her mother, she agrees, and John and Lorraine skip school the next day. At the zoo, they meet Mr. Pignati’s best friend, a baboon named Bobo, and eat lots of treats.
In real life, the kids I based John and Lorraine never knew each other... until I introduced them to each other on one occasion, but that was the last they saw of each other. John got married, moved to Washington and became a policeman. Lorraine got a job and worked in Manhattan.
Lorraine feels guilty about taking his money, but John is unconcerned, cashes the check, and spends the money on beer and cigarettes. The next day, Lorraine and John go to the zoo with Mr. Pignati, and meet a baboon whom he calls his best friend, Bobo.
At the end of the novel, he learns that his best friend, Bobo, has died as well. This is too much loss for one person to endure, especially one as lonely as Mr Pignati, and it is loss that precipitates the second heart attack that he suffers.
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John is a handsome, outgoing jokester who regularly orchestrates pranks to get a rise out of people at school. Lorraine, meanwhile, is shy and reserved. She was lonely when she first moved into John’s neighborhood last year, but now they’re each other’s best friend.
