A Day No Pigs Would Die

The book A Day No Pigs Would Die, written by Robert Newton Peck, is based on the author's real childhood experience, in the Vermont country where he grew up, and according to the printing before the story, so are all his books, including A Park of the Sky, and thirteen best selling Soup books. This book is a story about a boy(the author himself), his dad, and a farm in Vermont. What he wanted to tell us, is most probably the love he has with his father.

Summary:

The story is wrapped open from his everyday life,that he didn't go to school when he should, but he still had to do all the farm work, recieving his very own pig and getting lots of useful knowledge of animals from his dad, telling us the fun stories and love between the author and his pig, his pet or even more, a friend, while directly or indirectly showing the love between him and his father. There seemed to be no large conflicts at all in this novel when I started the reading, but at the final chapters, the readers would find the greatest antagonist that the protagonist are unable to overcome. Indeed, this book was a tragic in the end, which it didn't seemed to be at all in the first chapters.

The authors father didn't know how to read and write, but he still full of knowledge, and was always willing to help his son, the plain and simple descriptions of his everyday life, which doesn't seem to have a central idea for the stories expanded to different fields, was actually telling all readers that such a simple, plain and poor person--his father---could carry unlimited warm and love, those riches that may have been lost,  to the author himself and us---the readers.

Personally, I strongly recommend this book, not only because it was a million copy seller, but mainly for the love and warm you'd fell all the way along the story, shown by how his father taught him knowledge of animals, helping him out in farm works when he's stuck, and later, explaining great philosophies about life in his simple words, as well as teaching him how to be a real man. And that is, I think ,probably made a book about everyday life and written in plain language, sold over a million copies. 

Book Review by John Z.