Do you pity or dislike TJ?

I'm not sure if I pity or dislike TJ. Throughout the book he makes a number of decisions which lead him into trouble or cause him problems. There are a few attributes to his personality which I think most people would dislike, but as you read through the book you can see that he is vulnerable and actually doesn't mean to cause so many problems.
The first time in the book that TJ is introduced gives off a bad impression of him. He tells the Logan children how he managed to get his brother Claude into trouble for something that he had done. He had been going up to the Wallace's store for t…