John and Lorraine are buddies in high school. They sit down to write The Pigman, after their sweet friend, Mr. Pignati, dies from a heart attack. Each chapter is either written solely by John or Lorraine. John writes the first chapter and Lorraine writes the second. The pattern continues throughout the book. Lorraine begins Chapter Two by talking about John, but it isn't until the middle of this chapter that she says how she first notices him. Lorraine first says that she moved into John's neighborhood at the beginning of their ninth grade year. She first notices the trees on the block, but she says the following about the first time she notices John:
"I noticed him the very first day mainly because of his eyes. As I told you, he has these fantastic eyes that take in everything that's going on, and whenever they came my way, I looked in the other direction. His eyes reminded me of a description of a gigantic Egyptian eye that was found in one of the pyramids I read about in a book on black magic . . . That's what John's eyes remind me of. I knew even from the first moment I saw him he had to be something special" (14).
Lorraine and John meet first at the bus stop on the first day of school. They become friends a little bit later, though, when there is one day that there aren't enough seats for him to sit by his friends, so he sits by Lorraine. The two end up laughing for some unknown reason and they are friends from that point on.
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