Who is The Rawlings Family from Stop-time and what is their importance? Stop-time English & Literature The Rawlings Family | Stop-time

Tobey Rawlings is the author's best friend when he's in Florida, with the two of them exploring both the geographical and emotional wilds of youth. The author describes one encounter with Tobey's family, a moving story of free and playful joy that, in an instant, turns sour. Later in the narrative, the author describes his disillusionment when he re-encounters Tobey as an adolescent. That disillusionment, the almost archetypal discovery that childhood friendships don't always last, the narrative seems to be suggesting, is an important component of the author's "coming of age".