Who is Norton ?

Norton Kelly is a student in Lorraine's and John's class, and John describes him as "a social outcast." He was once caught stealing a bag of marshmallows from a supermarket, and ever since then he's been taunted as "The Marshmallow Kid." He has a mean streak, and when he finds out that John and Lorraine have access to Mr. Pignati's apartment, he asks if Pignati has anything worth stealing. His mean streak started in childhood, when he got caught playing with dolls and all the other kids harassed him about it; after that, he went berserk and "turned tough guy all the way," according to John. From then on, he spent his time picking fights, throwing stones, beating up people, and calling all the other boys sissies. Since then, Norton has become a thief, shoplifting and stealing whenever he can. John says, "Then he got even worse, until now his eyes even drift out of focus when you're talking to him. He's the kind of guy who could grow up to be a killer." At a party in The Pigman's house, Norton steals an oscilloscope and breaks the old man's precious pig figurines, which were one of the few reminders of The Pigman's dead wife Mr. Pignati had left.