Today in my group's discussion we talked in a very deep sense about The Pigman, its' meanings and the impact it may have had on the media in the 1970's. In short, we all hated The Pigman and all declared it one of the worst books we have ever read, but that doesn't mean that the story didn't have a time of importance.
In the 1970's the world of literature had never seen anything like this thus far, all books depicted life and teenagers as though they were a fairy tale, with no real issues struggling with addiction, abuse and loss. This book proved to people that the world is different from what we're shown and from then increased the level of stories dealing with issues like these drastically.
But therein also lies the issue.
Books like these became so commonplace, with every adult, child or teenager struggling with issues with addiction, sex, thievery (basically anything you could think of) to the point where it becomes over saturated, and The Pigman loses its' spark entering the 21st century.
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