Day No Pigs Would Die How is Rob a limited narrator
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In Robert Newton Pecks A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Peck can definitely be described as a limited narrator. Rob is at often seen at times during the novel doing things that he has not really thought through. Growing up on a farm, Rob was not taught things like we learn today. He is very ignorant and innocent in everything he does.
For instance, when Rob's Aunt Matty comes to visit she insists on tutoring him, Rob thinks that a "tooter" is an instrument in the band. He refers to it as such "Jacob Henry had a tooter, its real name was a cornet, and he played it in the school band...but I was relieved now knowing that I weren't going to get marched to the kitchen and took by the ear for making a D in English." Rob starts to laugh when Aunt Matty is talking about how she will tutor him, and after this he soon learns that tutors do not play in the band.
Another example of Rob's ignorance is when he goes to the Rutland Fair with the Tanners...