A Day No Pigs Would Die

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Summary: A Pig's Problem
Review: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck
B. Masukawa
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The book A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck is about a boy named Robert and his family in the town of Learning. Their family owns a farm on an orchid on the outskirts of town. One day Robert helps a cow, which belongs to Mr. Tanner, give birth to two calf's. Robert is rewarded by being given a pig that they decided to call Pinky. From that point on, he raises the pig and watches it grow. Robert goes to the county fair with Pinky and wins a blue ribbon for Best Behaved pig, but when they return from the fair, the father tells Robert that Pinky is barren. Near the end, the father killed the pig because they needed more meat to survive on during the winter. Soon after, the father dies and Robert now has to take care of his mother and aunt.
I hated this book because it was totally pointless. The boy is given a pig that ends to be killed in the end. In the beginning he talks about how important the pig, Pinky is to him. He tells us how the pig was the first thing that he ever owned and it's importance. In the middle of the book, it suddenly doesn't even mention the pig except the parts when Robert is taking food to it. At the end of the book you wonder what was the point of the pig's involvement at all with the boy. All I could ever figure out, was that the pig was an object that Robert got attached to. I think that the point of the story was how Robert had to become a man and take care of himself.
There are certain things in a book that doesn't need to be described. In the beginning, it describes in detail how a cow's legs is swollen and dripping with blood as she is giving birth to her calf. While the cow is giving birth to her calf " That devil cow ran down that ridge with my arm in her mouth, and dragging me half-naked with her." While the father is slaughtering the pig "Her blood gushed out in heaving floods around our ankles," this quote almost made me throw up. After the father killed Pinky, Robert kissed his hand that was soaked with pig blood until some of it got into his mouth. I understand that the author was trying to tell me what the difficulties of a farm were and what the livestock go through, but the descriptions were unnecessary.
My least favorite part of the book is when Ira long brings along a good-natured female dog to Robert's fathers' farm. Ira brought his dog along because he wants to make it fight a weasel. The whole point to the fight is to make the dog into a weasel dog so after it will ripe apart any weasel in her sight. At the end of the fight, the dog bites its' owner with deep disgust. Her paw was now only a stump with a bone splintered at the end. Her ear was also torn off and was in a stage of extreme pain. I understand why this event took place, but didn't understand why farmers didn't think of what the outcome of the fight would do to the dog's well-being. What was even worse was that she was forced into something that she knew would risk her life. After I read this chapter I thought that the farmers were incredibly stupid.

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Summary: A Day No Pigs Would Die-
Review: First of all I thought is was filled with great details. I didn't like it at first but in the end when Robert's father dies it is sad but it makes Robert the man of the house. He has to do tons of work like check the eggs to see if they are good. Secondly, he has to milk the cow and lay the hay down. Robert lost his freind Pinky, a pig and he felt bad. He had to eat him and he didn't even cry! He just cared for his father then cause he knew his father was going to die soon. It almost made me cry!! I liked the book a lot and i give it a four in half star rating because the author explains to you how evertything happens. There are so many lessons I learned and we learned the birth/death situations. Their is lots of humor in the book like when Rob has nothing on and the cow is dragging him around in prickles. I hope more people will read the book and will have mixed emotions.

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Summary: This Book Is Informative But Short.
Review: I thought that the book A Day No Pigs Would Die was a good book by the author Robert Newton. I don't read a lot and I thought that it was a good book for middle school students and up. It has content that I would have considered unusual or uncomfortable two or three years earlier. Robert Peck, the main character of the book goes through many changes over the course of this book (one year) and eventually becomes a man. This book contains little bits comedy, like in a part of the book when Rob goes to a fair with his neighbors and it shows his innocence, or with his vocabulary. Finally the story is has a large amount of thinking to it, you have to wonder what is going to happen in the next chapter. I chose four stars because this book informs me about the life of a shaker boy on a farm and how it is exciting and boring at the same time! If you like to read informative books than I recommend this book to you.

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Summary: Better Than I Thought
Review: I'm one of the unusual ones that actually liked this book. 'A Day No Pigs Would Die' was a wonderful book. At first I didn't think it would be very good since the title kind've set me off. But in the end I loved it.

By the title you'd think that the book was strictly about pigs but it's not. This book is also about growing up and maturing. The family has to live with what money they have, which isn't much.

Rob Peck is the main character and the book is based on his adventures. Saving a cow and gaining a pig is just part of it. Rob also has to learn to live with what he has and to learn to how to become a man. Rob also has to deal with losing a friend.

This is an awesome book! It has a wonderful lesson to learn. I think everyone should read this book!

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Summary: A Day No Pigs Would DIe
Review: Maturity is to become fully developed or ripe.In the book A Day No Pigs Will Die Robert Newton Peck is faced with the dilemma of growing up to be a man at a young age.At age 13 his father died leaving him to be the man of the house and to run the farm.Robert learns from growing up that he has to do what has to be done.Robert Newtown Peck was not like any other child .He did not spend his days going to school fulltime and playing in the outdoors.He did exactly the oppisite.He was a fulltime provider.He provided help for his family to maintain their life without becoming financially unstable.He had to live by the Shaker way and was never allowed something that was not necessary. Robert Newtown Peck really did not experience a regular child's life style that you would experience today.For example, As I grew up I only had simple chores around the house.My chores were usually to wash the dishes,vaccum,and take out the garbage never had to milk a cow or work on a farm.Robert Newtown Peck had to experience being a man at an early age.He had to do the work that his father did daily.Maturance from a boy to a man is the most important topic in the book ,A Day No Pigs Would Die.This book has funny moments. Although it also has some gooey things but if you think you can manage check it out

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Summary: A Day NO Pigs Would Die
Review: The book called A Day No Pigs Would Die is a humourous but sad story.It is written by Robert Peck, and it is a true story. It describes Robert as a boy growing up and having to abide by the book of Shaker.It takes place in Vermont in the 1930's.

A Day No Pigs Would Die is about a boy who has to become a man very soon and his pet pig, Pinky.My favorite part of the story was when Robert went to the Rutland Fair with his neighbors and when he goes to the bathroom. Mrs.Tanner (his neighbor) tells him to watch for perverts, well little did he know that a pervert is a bad thing so he wants to meet one. Another very humourous part was when he brings a D home on his report card,and his Aunt Mattie wants to be his tutor. Well Robert thinks that tutor means an instrument and his Aunt Mattie is going to drown him cause she's Baptist and baptizeS people. A part that I didn't like in the book was when they were trying to weasel Ira Long's dog and after and after they weaseled her,she was so tore up that they had to shoot her to take her out of her misery.

I would recomend this book for anyone who likes to read "down to earth" stories.It tells everything even if it doesn't want to because the author wants you to visualize what's going on.I would recomend this book because this book it is a great story, and I think that you would enjoy it!!

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Summary: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Review: The novel A Day No Pigs Would Die is a good book for Middle School students. Robert Newton Peck's novel about a young farm boy from Vermont is written in a slow moving, laid back manner that makes it easy to imagine yourself living on a farm. "Can't keep swine and kine under the same roof," is one example of how the author uses farm language dialogue to help the reader relate to the characters' life styles. In addition, the author also wants to show the similarities of a young boy raised in the country compared to a young boy living in the city. For instance, a young boy in the novel, Rob, lives in the country and attends school every day. This is very similar to an average city boy who attends school. One highlight of Rob's summer was when he attended the grand annual Rutland Fair. Entertainment events, such as carnivals and fairs are also popular for children living in the city. Throughout the book, the reader learns about the hard work and dedication to run a farm. Even considering the workload involved, many farm children tend to carry on the family tradition of farming. After his father's death, Rob was forced to mature quickly by taking over his dad's responsibilities. Through his fathers training, Rob was now able to run the family farm. Rob shows his admiration for his father by stating, "I want to be like you, Papa." Family commitments and traditions of farm life helped Rob become a responsible adult. Middle School students can learn from Rob's experiences and relate them to their own lifestyles.

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Summary: Day no pigs would die
Review: This is a kind of book that when you start it you can't put it down. A boy named Rob, decides to skip school. He sees a cow giving birth to a baby cow. He takes his shirt off and wraps it around the baby cow and pulled the cow out of its mom's stomach. He pretty much gave birth to the baby cow. The cow that gave birth to the baby cow had a goiter in it's esophagus so Rob thinks of another stupid idea and pulls it out of it's mouth. He got his arm stuck in the cow's mouth because the cow bit down and went rolling down with a very injured arm. For doing this, his neighbor (whos cows they are) rewarded him with a cute pid which Rob named Pinky. One day Mr. Tanner was going to the Runtland fair and wanted to know if Rob wanted to go to tshow Pinky. He did and of coure won first place which was a blue ribbon. A couple of weeks later, Papa couldn't find any food for their family so he had to kill Pinky and eat her. After that Papa, started to sleep in the barn. When Rob and his family wre going to eat dinner, Papa wasn't going to join them. He died in his sleep. Rob just didn't have aperfect life after he won the blue ribbon with Pinky.