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__A Day No Pigs Would Die__ Robert Newton Peck

The climax in the novel is in the winter Rob and his father have no luck of finding any deer. So, Rob's father wants to kill the pig that Rob has raised because there is no deer and they need food. The major and minor conflicts or the resolution is solved by Rob's father killed the pig for food. The major things that helped resolve the plot are Rob letting his father kill his pig Pinky because he understood that they need food. The message or theme I got from the novel is that you have to do what you have to do. This message or theme was conveyed by killing the pig for food because they have to do what they have to do no matter what. Rob is a round, protagonist, and static because he has many characteristics, and doesn't change. Rob's father is round, antagonist, and dynamic because he has many characteristics, starts the situation of killing the pig, and changes at the end of the story by him dying out in his barn. I wasn't satisfied with the end of the novel because I wanted the pig to live and Rob's dad because Rob grew up with both of them and they died, but I understand. This novel is believable because it is just like in real life that someone raises a pig and it has to die somehow, and the father that does hard work every day dies sooner or later from a heart-attack from all the hard work. I would recommend this novel to a friend because it is a very interesting story, and you don't expect the ending to end the way it did. The novel did meet my expectations because I wanted to read a story that was interesting as this one, and I wanted to have a ending that I wouldn't expect at the end of the story. The least thing I did not like about this novel is their language and their accent because some of it didn't make sense. Also, I didn't like the sad ending of the pig getting killed and Rob's father dying, but I understand why the author ended the story the way he did. The thing that I most liked was Rob talking about him raising his pig, and the good, but sad ending. I love this story!