Answer: i found this wonderful description of Young Charlie:
Anger is overwhelming the middle brother. He is fifteen and has already served time for armed robbery. If he gets into trouble again, social services will take him from Ty'ree, making him a ward of the state. On his return home, he is welcomed back by his old friends, and they expect him to act as he did before he left. Charlie is torn between his family's need for him to become a responsible brother to them and his friends' pressure to become one with the street.
