A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another') but is persuaded. His father at first demurs ('We thank you, Brother Tanner,' said Papa, 'but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. The grateful farmer brings him a gift-a newborn pig. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy-whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without 'frills' in the Shaker Way-becomes a man. He changed over time from being just a neighbor to Robert, to being a sort of friend, and was there for Robert when Haven died.Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood. He was a close neighbor to Robert and Haven, and actually gifted Pinky to Robert. We first met her as a piglet, but later on when she was fully grown it was revealed that she was barren and was eventually slaughtered.īen Tanner: Ben was dynamic and also a round character.

We knew quite a lot about Pinky, like what she ate, her background, and what was expected of her in the future. She was a dynamic and also a round character.

Pinky: While Pinky was not an actual human, she was a very important character, as Robert's best-and really only-friend. Although, even though we did not witness it, we know that he was dynamic because in the end we found it that he had been teaching himself how to write his name. He was a typical farmer, but you were not told much about Haven. Haven: Haven was a stock character that was also quite flat. Also, he changed from being a young boy that did not want to be a Shaker, to being the head of the household and knowing how to take care of his family. At the beginning you were not even sure what his name was, but later on you a could almost predict the way he would react to his surroundings like when his dad, Haven, died. Robert: I felt that Robert was a dynamic character that changed from flat to round later on in the book.

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck