Genre

Rural American Novel

Narrator

Robert Peck

Point Of View

First person

Tone

Lighthearted, optimistic

Tense

Present

Setting (Time)

Late 1930s

Setting (Place)

Learning, Vermont

Protagonist

Robert Peck

Rising Action

Robert receives a pig as a gift from a neighbor. He and the pig become best friends.

Climax

Pinky has to be killed so that the family will have enough to eat in the winter.

Falling Action

Robert's father dies.