A Day No Pigs Would DieBy: Robert PeckAnalysis

"Somebody once told me that a cow won't bite. That somebody is as wrong as a sin on Sunday" (pg. 8). This little incident is the event that really gets the story on a move. A Day No Pigs Would Die narrates Robert Peck's adolescent life in rural Vermont during the nineteen twenties. A Day No Pigs Would Die is a true story, written in first person, through the eyes of a Robert Newton Peck. The mood of the this story is smooth and uneventful with a few spots of joy and sadness. Much of the mood is derived from the plain and natural setting of rural Vermont. A Day No Pigs Would Die takes place during the nineteen twenties on the Peck's family farm and the surrounding New England countryside. The Peck's own a simple farm consisting of a dark brown log farmhouse, a plank board corn-cratch, and an old log milk barn. To the north of the Peck farm lies the Tanner's farm. The Tanner's farm is much newer and larger with many sprawling pastures and a large, modern milk barn. Behind these two farms...