Describe some of the issues that Ralph Angel had to deal with as a child.

As a little boy, Ralph Angel looked forward to the summers when his father came to visit. After Charley was born, however, those visits stopped. Jealousy grew between Ralph Angel and a half-sister he didn't even know. Finally, when Ralph Angel moves to California to life with his father an new family, things start off great. He grew jealous, though, of the attention they smothered baby Charley with and began acting up to get attention. Once, he forced her to drink water from a baby food jar and thought he was drowning her when bubbles started pouring out of her nose. Charley's mother insisted he be sent back to Louisiana right away. Since his mother had committed suicide while he was gone, he moved in with Miss Honey.