who had read the pigman if so where does it take place?
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New York, on Staten Island actually. Below is a link about the story: http://www.enotes.com/pigman-qn/48876
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Mr. Scratch\n\nThe story is about a New Hampshire farmer in 1840 with unending bad luck. Jabez Stone swears that "it's enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil!" When Mr. Scratch (the Devil) arrives the next day, the farmer reluctantly makes a bargain for better luck. Mr. Stone enjoys seven years of prosperity, and later bargains for three more years, but as the "mortgage falls due," he convinces famous lawyer and orator Daniel Webster to argue his case with the Devil.
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Where the author was in history--location, time, political/economic climate, social norms, etc.  The frame of reference notes that authors write from different physical and temporal places; that his or her world may have been very different from yours
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In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group.\n\nRalph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death.\n\nAt first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting.\n\nWhen a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice, to their horror, that the signal fire—which had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain—has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack, but the hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance. Piggy criticizes Jack, who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch shell and reprimands the boys in a speech intended to restore order. At the meeting, it quickly becomes clear that some of the boys have started to become afraid. The littlest boys, known as “littluns,” have been troubled by nightmares from the beginning, and more and more boys now believe that there is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island. The older boys try to convince the others at the meeting to think rationally, asking where such a monster could possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea—a proposition that terrifies the entire group.\n\nNot long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. The boys, asleep below, do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal fire mountain, dead. Sam and Eric, the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, are asleep and do not see the parachutist land. When the twins wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes. Thinking the island beast is at hand, they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.\n\nThe boys organize a hunting expedition to search for the monster. Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge, deformed ape. The group holds a meeting at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting. Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office, but the other boys refuse to vote Ralph out of power. Jack angrily runs away down the beach, calling all the hunters to join him. Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire, this time on the beach rather than on the mountain. They obey, but before they have finished the task, most of them have slipped away to join Jack.\n\nJack declares himself the leader of the new tribe of hunters and organizes a hunt and a violent, ritual slaughter of a sow to solemnize the occasion.
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animal farm was a good book about Stalin's regime and commuism. as u probably already read, not all animals were created equally. the differences showed the ability of the animals to think and their intelligence. the pigs were the most articulate and therefore the obvious leader animals of the barn animals. they could get thier piont across  and could. none of the other animals could write or read as well as the pigs. the speech made by major showed that the animals were not al equal because the pigs sat in the first row, you could see from the begining that pigs thought they were better than the other aniamls.
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wikipedia say this click link below\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piglets
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Right off the coast of Long Island, NY.\nIt used to be an animal testing site for pharmasutical research, for cures to diseases.  However, it was rumored that they were testing biochemical weapons there as well.\n\nI believe it is closed now, has been for some time.\n\nNelson Demille wrote a good fictional detective novel based around it called "Plum Island" if you are interested in a good read.
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Twain was born in Florida, Missouri and moved to his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri at the age of four. He based some of his books such as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on that town. He attended the local school. Following the death of his father in 1847, the family was left in difficult circumstances. Twain worked as a journeyman printer and occasional writer both for his brother Orion's "Hannibal Gazette".
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Setting\n\nYonkers, New York (present) and New England (back flashes)\n\nBackground Information\n\nWilly Loman is a traveling salesman who has worked for the Wagner Company for thirty-four years. He is now sixty-one years old and has been taken off salary and put back on straight commission, and he is unable to earn enough money to pay the bills. Charley, the Lomans' neighbor, has been giving money to Willy every month to meet his payments, even though Willy is too proud to accept a payroll job from him. Charley's son Bernard, who was in school with Willy's sons, has become a successful lawyer.\n\nWilly's two sons, Biff and Happy, come back home and are temporarily sharing their old room. Biff is the oldest son who was a football star in high school with several scholarships, but for the last fourteen years he has been unable to find himself. He returned from somewhere in the West due to his mother's request for him to see his father. Happy works in a department store and has his own apartment in another part of New York.\n\nWilly has been plagued by daydreams and illusions, and the play begins with his driving home prematurely from one of his New England business trips due to the fact that he cannot concentrate on the road.\n\nMajor Characters\n\n    * Willy Loman- the salesman who is past his prime, and who was never an exceptional businessman in his prime\n    * Linda Loman- Willy's wife who loves him despite all of his difficulties\n    * Biff Loman- Willy's eldest son for whom he had dreams of greatness\n    * Happy Loman- Willy's younger son\n    * Charley- Willy's neighbor\n    * Bernard- Charley's son\n    * Ben- Willy's brother who left home very early and became tremendously wealthy; appears only in Willy's daydreams\n    * Howard Wagner - son of former owner of the Wagner Company; he now runs the firm and is responsible for putting Willy on straight commission\n    * The Woman - Willy's mistress from Boston\n    * Miss Forsythe and Letta - Two girls that Happy picks up at the restaurant \n\n \n\nPlot Summary\n\nWilly Loman has been traveling salesman for the Wagner Company for thirty-four years. He likes to think of himself as vital to the New England area. A long time ago, Willy met a salesman named Dave Singleman who could go into a town and pick up a phone and would be able to place many orders without ever leaving his hotel room. When this man died, people from all over the country came to his funeral, and this man became Willy's inspiration.\n\nAs the play opens, Willy has just come back home after having left for New England that morning. He tells his wife, Linda, that he just can't seem to keep his mind on driving anymore. He asks about his son, Biff, and he drifts off to when Biff was a high school senior fourteen years ago. Biff was playing in an important football game and people from all over the country were coming to offer him scholarships. Then something happened later that year, because Biff did not go to college and has yet to find himself. It is later revealed that Biff has failed math and had gone up to Boston to ask his father to appeal to the teacher. When he reached Willy's hotel room in Boston, Biff found his father having an affair with a strange woman. After that episode, Biff despised his father and could never bring himself to provide Willy with the happiness of having a successful son.\n\nAfter fourteen years of being away, Biff returns home. He and his brother Happy think of a job that would enable Biff to settle down in New York. They remember Biff's former boss, Bill Oliver, and plan to ask him for a loan of ten thousand dollars to begin a business of their own. They tell their father about their plans, and Willy believes that the two boys could conquer the world in business together. Willy explains that the important thing in life is to be well-liked and to have personal attractiveness. He tells Biff that Mr. Oliver al
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Apparently, it's the name of a place in the novel V by Thomas Pynchon.
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It's unclear, but the parallels between the story and the things happening in politics at the time are fairly convincing. For a good look at all the supposed allusions, see "The "Wizard of Oz" as a Monetary Allegory " by Hugh Rockoff in the Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Aug., 1990) , pp. 739-760
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Here are some possiblities:\n\nAlbany's O'Connell Machine: An American Political Relic by Frank Robinson, Published by Washington Park Spirit (1973)\n\nMachine Politics: A Study of Albany's O'Connells also by Frank Robinson - reprint edition is ISBN: 0878551476\n\nO Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels by William J. Kennedy, reprint edition isbn: 0140074163\n\nAnd, possibly, When Leaders Were Bosses: An Inside Look at Political Machines and Politics by Noal Solomon, ISBN: 0682483338
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It's by Stephen Crane.  Here's the SparkNote link, too, since you don't have your book: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/redbadge/ Good luck!
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at the centre of the book\npeace
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A number of boys crash land on a desert island, amid rumours of an atomic war. The first two characters to meet are the athletic, somewhat heroic Ralph and a bespectacled, fat boy known only as Piggy, who use a conch to call the other boys to them from across the island. One other potential leader arises from the boys - Jack, who had been leading a choir. Ralph, in fact, is elected as leader, and early on the book is full of optimism of what the boys expect to be fun. This is reflective of Ralph being a kind, democratic character, and Piggy his less popular, but intelligent back-up.\n\nLord of the Flies contains many themes and symbols. The characters are often seen as representing different parts of society:\n\nRalph represents democracy as he is leader by a democratic vote, and attempts to please the majority. \nJack represents totalitarianism as he does not appreciate the results of the election, eventually seizing power in a coup and ruling alone. He also represents the anti thesis of democracy, dictatorship. Everyone must abide by set rules and he shows a distinct disrespect for the conch and its associations. \nAnother theory is that Ralph and Jack represent the Superego and the Id, respectively. The logic behind this is that Jack seeks to immediately satisfy the needs and act on instinct, fulfilling the description of the Id, while Ralph adheres and upholds the social norms of society. Examples of this are both positive and negative. The positive being democracy and teamwork, while the negative being mockery of societal oddities, such as Piggy being obese, wearing glasses and having asthma, or "ass-mar." Also, he blatantly ignores Piggy's request that he not call him Piggy in front of the others. \nJack being the head choirboy and the most savage can also be symbolized as a fallen angel, i.e. Lucifer. \nPiggy represents rational thinking as he is logical but unpopular, and eventually Ralph comes to realise how much he depended on Piggy and his logic. Ralph admits this with "I can't think. Not like Piggy." \nThe choir boys represent the Nazi SS unit(not the army); they do what Jack tells them and use majority force to keep power. \nSam and Eric represent the masses as they are impressionable, and tend not to think for themselves. At several points in the book their behaviour mimics that of dogs. \nThe 'beastie' represents propaganda and irrational fears, as it causes a panic and ultimately allies the boys around Jack. \nSimon represents natural goodness because he is the only character on the island that continues being good even when the other boys forget about the rules of society. Some see similarities between him and Jesus, based on the religious references around Simon: his name (that of one of the disciples), his skill with carpentry, and his killing at the hands of a group. As well, the night before Simon dies he knows he won't make it home all right, just as the night before Jesus' arrest Jesus says he will be betrayed. Furthermore, Simon's actions also allude to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Simon was mistakenly thought of as the beast, and the beast was initially thought to be a snake. In the novel, Simon gives the littluns the choicest fruit, as the serpent tells Adam and Eve to eat the fruit. \nJack uses typical scare tactics, much like current-day governments. Even after the children kill Simon, thinking he is the beast, Jack says that the beast is still alive. He does this to keep the children scared, so they will look to him for help. \nThe glasses represent common sense, as when they break, focus and order is lost. \nThe conch represents civilization, order and democracy on the island, and it transforms accordingly as the boys transform, losing its colour gradually before being utterly destroyed. \nThe conch's white colour represents purity and innocence, which is destroyed when it is shattered. The description of the colour of the conch changes thr
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Going After Cacciato: Information From Answers.comGoing After Cacciato Written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979 , this complex novel is set during the.\nwww.answers.com/topic/\ngoing-after-cacciato - 28k - Cached
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There is no specific person.... it is simply a neutral narrator. Keep in mind Orwell wrote this in the form of an allegory, so there isn't a particular character telling us the story at all.