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"Piggy Piggy"
American Horror Story episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 6
Directed by
Michael Uppendahl
Written by
Jessica Sharzer
Featured music
"I, the Sun" by
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Production code
1ATS05
Original air date
November 9, 2011
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"Piggy Piggy" is the sixth episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on November 9, 2011. The episode was written by supervising producer Jessica Sharzer and directed by Michael Uppendahl.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot 1.1 1994
1.2 2011
2 Production
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links
Plot[edit]
1994[edit]
At Westfield High School in 1994, a shooter enters the school and begins killing students. He winds up at the school library, where he wounds a teacher trying to block the entrance and murders five students. The shooter is revealed to be Tate. A SWAT team finds him at the house (owned at the time by Constance) and kills him when he pulls a gun on them.
2011[edit]
After Violet confirms online that Tate was killed after his massacre at Westfield High, Constance introduces her to a medium, Billie Dean (Sarah Paulson) and she and Constance explain that Tate is unaware he is dead. Constance has been sending him to Ben, hoping a breakthrough will help him pass on and they need Violet’s help, though Violet is shaken by the revelation.
Ben needs to use the house for his therapy sessions to make them money, and Vivien agrees out of necessity. Ben sees a new patient, Derek (Eric Stonestreet), who is terrified by urban legends, most recently the urban legend of “Piggy Man”, who will slaughter anyone who repeats a specific mantra in the mirror. Ben also begins noticing that Vivien has developed a personal attraction to the security officer, who checks on her after she purposefully pushes the security alarm.
Constance and Moira help Vivien with the pregnancy, preparing healthy foods for her in the form of sweetbreads. Though initially disgusted with the dishes, Vivien develops a ravenous appetite toward them, which disturbs her. She contacts the ultrasound technician who fainted during the ultrasound, and who since quit her job, claiming she saw that the baby was the Devil. Vivien walks out, angered at the accusation.
Taking Ben’s advice to face his fear, Derek repeats the mantra in his bathroom mirror, but is ironically shot and killed by an armed burglar hiding in his shower. Violet tries to confront Tate in the basement, but is mobbed by the other ghosts. Overwhelmed, she attempts suicide by taking several sleeping pills, but Tate goes to great measure to save her by taking her to the bathtub and forcing her to vomit up the pills. Tate tearfully confesses that he loves her and cannot understand why she has turned cold toward him. He plans to leave her alone, but she comforts him. Constance speaks to Addie through Billie, and receives closure, but learns that Addie is glad she was not revived as a ghost and that she now fears Tate, knowing what he did.
Production[edit]
The episode was written by supervising producer Jessica Sharzer, and directed by Michael Uppendahl.
On creating the character of Billie Dean and her "gift," series co-creator Ryan Murphy relates his own experience with a medium: "When we created her," he says, "all of us in the writer’s room have had some experience with psychics or not. I’m somebody that was very skeptical until I went to a woman who [asked] me out of nowhere, 'Is your father ill?' and I said, 'No. He just had a physical and he’s fine.' She said, 'You need to tell him to go back.' So he did go back and they found prostate cancer and he died two years later. So Billie Dean was inspired a large part by that experience. We are saying that yes she is legitimate."[1]
Reception[edit]
Carissa Pavlica of TV Fanatic gave the episode 4.7 out of 5 stars, saying, "I have absolutely no idea what is happening on American Horror Story and I love every moment of it."[2] The Star-Ledger's James Queally said, "'Piggy Piggy' contains more good than bad, but it also has a lot of scenes that require me to take a wait-and-see approach."[3]
In its original American broadcast, "Piggy Piggy" was seen by an estimated 2.83 million household viewers and gained a 1.6 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stack, Tim (November 9, 2011). "'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy on Vivien's blood-craving baby and next week's 'most sexual episode' yet -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Pavlica, Carissa (November 10, 2011). "American Horror Story Review: Here Piggy Pig Pig...". TV Fanatic. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Queally, James (November 9, 2011). "American Horror Story 'Piggy Piggy' Recap: Mmmm ... Brains". NJ.com. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Seidman, Robert (November 10, 2011). "Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'American Horror Story,' 'South Park' Lead; 'Psych' Lower + 'Real World,' 'Mythbusters' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
External links[edit]
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"Piggy Piggy" at TV Guide.com

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Rage (Stephen King novel)

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Rage
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First edition cover

Author
Richard Bachman
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Psychological thriller
Publisher
Signet Books
Publication date
September 13, 1977
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
211
ISBN
978-0-451-07645-8
Rage (originally titled Getting It On) is the first novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1977. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot summary
2 Connections to actual school shootings
3 End of publication
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Plot summary[edit]
Charlie Decker, a Maine high school senior, is called to a meeting with his principal over a previous incident in which Decker attacked his chemistry teacher with a heavy wrench. For unknown reasons, Charlie subjects the principal to a series of insulting remarks, resulting in his expulsion. Charlie storms out of the office and retrieves a pistol from his locker, setting its contents on fire. He then returns to his classroom and fatally shoots his algebra teacher. The fire triggers an alarm, but Charlie forces his classmates to stay in the classroom, killing another teacher when he enters. As the students and teachers evacuate the school, police and media arrive at the scene.
In the following four hours, Charlie toys with various authority figures who attempt to negotiate with him, including the principal, the school psychologist, and the local police chief. Charlie gives them certain commands, threatening to kill students if they do not comply. Charlie also admits to his hostages that he does not know what has compelled him to commit his deeds, believing he will regret them when the situation is over. As his fellow students start identifying with Charlie, he unwittingly turns his class into a sort of psychotherapy group, causing his schoolmates to semi-voluntarily tell embarrassing secrets regarding themselves and each other.
Interspersed throughout are narrative flashbacks to Charlie's troubled childhood, particularly his tumultuous relationship with his abusive father. Several notable incidents include a violent disagreement between two female students, and a SWAT team sniper shooting Charlie in the chest. However, Charlie survives due to the bullet striking his locker's padlock, which he had earlier placed in his shirt pocket.
Charlie finally comes to the realization that one student is really being held there against his will: a seeming "big man on campus" named Ted Jones, who is harboring his own secrets. Ted realizes this and attempts to escape the classroom, but the other students brutally assault him, driving him into a battered catatonic state. At 1:00 p.m., Charlie releases the students. When the police chief enters the classroom, he shoots the now-unarmed Charlie when he attempts suicide by cop. Charlie survives and is found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to a psychiatric hospital in Augusta until he is no longer a threat to society. The story ends with Charlie addressing the reader, "I have to turn off the light now. Good night."
Connections to actual school shootings[edit]
The novel's plot vaguely resembles actual events that have transpired since the book's publication, to a degree that the author is no longer comfortable with the book being in print for fear that it may inspire similar occurrences ("[Rage is] now out of print."[1]) as it had already been associated with incidents of high school shootings and hostage takings:
Jeffrey Lyne Cox, a senior at San Gabriel High School in San Gabriel, California, took a semi-automatic rifle to school on April 26, 1988 and held a humanities class of about 60 students hostage for over 30 minutes. Cox held the gun to one student when the teacher doubted he would cause harm and stated that he would prove it to her. At that time three students escaped out a rear door and were fired upon. Cox was later tackled and disarmed by another student. A friend of Cox told the press that Cox had been inspired by the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 hijacking and by the novel Rage,[2] which Cox had read over and over again and with which he strongly identified.[3]
Dustin L. Pierce, a senior at Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky, armed himself with a shotgun and two handguns and took a history classroom hostage in a nine-hour standoff with police on September 18, 1989 that ended without injury. Police found a copy of Rage among the possessions in Pierce's bedroom, leading to speculation that he had been inspired to carry out the plot of the novel.[4]
Barry Loukaitis, a student at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Washington, walked from his house to the school on February 2, 1996, and entered his algebra classroom during fifth period. He opened fire at students, killing two and wounding another. He then fatally shot his algebra teacher, Leona Caires, in the chest. As his classmates began to panic, Loukaitis reportedly said, "This sure beats algebra, doesn't it?" — a line erroneously believed to be taken from Rage. (No such line appears in King’s story. The closest is when Charlie Decker quips, "This sure beats panty raids.") Hearing the gunshots, gym coach Jon Lane entered the classroom. Loukaitis was holding his classmates hostage and planned to use one hostage so he could safely exit the school. Lane volunteered as the hostage, and Loukaitis was keeping Lane at gunpoint with his rifle. Lane then grabbed the weapon from Loukaitis and wrestled him to the ground, then assisted the evacuation of students.[5]
In December 1997 Michael Carneal shot eight fellow students at a prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. He had a copy of the book within the Richard Bachman omnibus in his locker. This was the incident that moved King to allow the book to go out of print.[6]
End of publication[edit]
When King decided to let Rage fall out of print in the United States, it was available only as part of The Bachman Books. The other novels that appeared in that compilation (The Long Walk, Roadwork, and The Running Man) are now published as separate books in the USA. Rage was for a time still available in the United Kingdom and other countries in The Bachman Books, but now appears to be unavailable.[7] The new description of The Bachman Books doesn't include Rage.
In a footnote to the preface of Blaze (dated 30 January 2007) King wrote of Rage: "Now out of print, and a good thing."
In a keynote address King delivered to the Vermont Library Conference, he explored the complex sociological and cultural issues surrounding this novel and its apparent link to school shootings, which he placed within the broader context of America's fixation on violence.[citation needed]
"The Carneal incident was enough for me. I asked my publisher to take the damned thing out of print. They concurred."[8] King went on to describe his view on this subject, which acknowledged the role that cultural or artistic products such as Rage play in influencing individuals, particularly troubled youths, while also declaring that artists and writers can not be denied the aesthetic opportunity to draw upon their own culture—which is suffused with violence, according to King—in their work.[8]
He went on to describe his inspiration for stories such as Rage, which drew heavily upon his own frustrations and pains as a high school student.[8]
In an article on the ominous writings of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho for Entertainment Weekly, King said "Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing—including a short story called 'Cain Rose Up' and the novel Rage—would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them..."[9]
See also[edit]
Cain Rose Up
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ King, Stephen. Foreword, Blaze, June 2007.
2.Jump up ^ "Hijack Tied to Teen Classroom Siege", The Press-Courier. Associated Press. April 27, 1988.
3.Jump up ^ Katz, Jesse. "A High School Gunman's Days of Rage", The Los Angeles Times, January 14, 1990.
4.Jump up ^ "Kentucky Youth Frees 11 Hostages and Surrenders", The New York Times, September 19, 1989.
5.Jump up ^ "Loukaitis trial starts today". Ellensburg Daily Record. 25 August 1997. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
6.Jump up ^ Stephen King's Keynote Address Vermont Library Conference VEMA Annual Meeting May 26, 1999 The Bogeyboys by Stephen King
7.Jump up ^ "The Bachman Books". Hodder & Stoughton. 2008. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c King, Stephen: "Stephen King's Keynote Address, Vermont Library Conference", VEMA Annual Meeting, May 26, 1999.
9.Jump up ^ King, Stephen (2007-04-23). "On Predicting Violence | News". EW.com. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
External links[edit]
Stephen King's Keynote Address
Character list and description of Rage
Identification characteristics for first edition copies of Rage by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)—Bookpoi

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