Loneliness In Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk

Loneliness is a pit in one individual's stomach that eats you from the inside out or outside in it is one of the most difficult feelings to withdraw from, but it is possible. Chris Crutcher the author of “Whale Talk” tries to convey in his book through the characters and their pasts. In the book the main character T.J. (The Tao Jones) hates jocks and all they stand for so he tries to help those who have been bullied by the jock which leads him to make a swim team to show letterman jackets can be worn by anyone if they want one. Through this story T.J. has experienced and met people who have also experienced loneliness. In “Whale Talk” Chris Crutcher demonstrates loneliness is overcome like when T.J. is talking about his neglectful biological parents, when T.J.’s father

They hit it off immediately, they made love that day.
“But somehow while the baby’s grandmother wasn’t looking, the little boy had crawled under the truck and got caught between the rear dual tires. It was several minutes before anyone realized the baby was missing and they quickly searched the store, hitting the obvious places before the widow was struck with the unthinkable and jumped into her car to chase after Dad, hoping beyond rationality the baby had somehow gotten into the trailer. She discovered a small severed arm lying next to the white line about a mile and a half outside the city limits”(Crutcher 58-59),
This triggered T.J.’s dad to go into an emotional spiral and lose all hope and be empty inside losing the will to live yet the widow did not sue him and the stage had no case. He wanted to be punished but it did not come. With this loneliness T.J.’s father turned for the better but not everyone turns out that way some become worse, less than