Whale Talk

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In Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher attempted to capture the teen spirit. By doing this, he perfectly described the anger, hormones, cursing, hazing, racial tension, fear, and all around emotions of the high school age. Yet he overlooked one of the most important components of "coming of age": The normality our lives. All that was highlighted in this story were the quarrels, races, debate, etc... of T.J's life. Crutcher failed to grasp, in this story at least, the ordinary days that make up the majority of the sch



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Approximate Word count = 342
Approximate Pages = 1 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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