In the story “Goin’ Fishin’,” by Chris Crutcher, is about a boy who lost his family due to a boat accident. The boy, Lionel Serbousek, demonstrated realistic feelings towards death through a variety of emotions. The trail of emotions are represented in the story with the stages of grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The 5 stages of grief are denial, bargaining, depression, anger, and acceptance. Chris Crutcher displays all the stages of grief for the reader through including information about the stages and Lionel’s emotions about his loss. Denial is a state where most people start off when they lose someone. Being denial in the circumstances of grief, people will deem the world meaningless and/or overwhelming. Not only will the world mean less
