hopes to have the whole team meet letterman requirements in order to embarrass the rest of the athletics program and their cherished school symbols. assembles a deliberately bizarre and motley crew of six swimmers, including the cognitively slow Chris the obnoxiously sesquipedalian Dan Hole the bodybuilder and musician Tay-Roy Kibble the rude, antisocial, and one-legged Andy Mott the completely nondescript Jackie Craig and the obese and insecure Simon DeLong. Inspired to spite the school's pretentious athletics program and its glorification of bullies like Barbour, T. to be captain of the swim team and recruit its members, even though the school has no pool. J.'s, wants to start a swim team to avoid direct coaching obligations. John Simet, an English teacher and friend of T.
often finds Barbour harassing Chris Coughlin, an intellectually disabled student who must unfairly live in the wake of a widely admired older brother who died in a freak accident. His non-involvement irritates much of the faculty, who pride themselves on the physical achievements of their students, displaying favoritism toward their star athletes, such as Mike Barbour, a vicious bully. is a physically impressive senior who has refused to join any sports teams as a form of anger management, due to his anger issues since early childhood. J.'s adoptive mother, Abby, is a child-abuse lawyer, and his adoptive father, John Paul, is a community volunteer and guardian ad litem, who is still haunted by his youth, when he accidentally killed a child after a one-night stand with the child's mother.Īt Cutter High School, T. J.-lives with his loving, adoptive white family in the nearly all-white town of Cutter, Washington. The biological son of a white mother and a half-black, half-Japanese father, The Tao Jones-known as T.
jumbles together a shabby swim team of student underdogs in order to aggravate and shame his high school's elitist athletics program. It is narrated in the first person by the quick-witted, sarcastic, and athletic "T.J." Jones, an adopted Asian-African-European-American teenager living in Cutter, Washington, a fictional location in the Pacific Northwest's Inland Empire, set about 50 miles outside of Spokane. Whale Talk is a 2001 novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher.
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