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1. __**Who are Bryon and Mark?**__ Bryon and his foster brother Mark are teenagers who are the main characters in the book. Bryon is a master at pool and hustles people at a local bar. Mark is Bryon's foster brother and best friend. When Mark was younger, his parents shot themselves and they both were killed. Mark then moved in with Bryon and his mom. __**2. Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital?**__ Mark and Bryon meet Cathy and Mike at the hospital. Cathy works at the snack bar and later becomes Bryon's girlfriend. Mike is a kid who got jumped by a group of poeple and got seriosly injured. __**3. What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie?**__ Bryon used to date Charlie's sister. When they broke up, Bryon and Charlie stayed friends. __**4. What happens at the dance?**__ Mark and Ponyboy Curtis are sitting at their car talking and drinking. Angela, Byron's ex-girlfriend, sends a guy to beat up Ponyboy Curtis. While they are fighting, Mark tries to break it up. The guy ends up smashing a glass bottle on Mark's head which really injures him. __**5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark?**__ Bryon starts to realize that when he and Mark have these conversations, they understand each other better than anyone else. __**6. What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it?**__ Mark and Bryon hustled two guys at a game of pool in Charlie's bar. The guys were not happy. They took Mark and Bryon in an alley and were going to give them a beating. That was when Charlie came out with a shotgun and saved them. The guys had a pistol and started firing back. Charlie jumped on top of Mark and Bryon to protect them. Mark manages to get away and fire back with Charllie's gun. Mark wounded the two guys but didn't kill them. Bryon gets up and realizes that Charlie had been shot and killed. Bryon and Mark feel it was their fault because if they didn't hustle them, then this never would have happened. __**7. What do Cathy and Mark think of each other?**__ Cathy and Mark never agree on anything and they are constantly fighting. I think they are always fighting because they are competing for Bryon's attention. __**8. What does Mark do to Angela? Why?**__ Angela gets drunk when she is hanging out with Mark and Bryon. When she faints, Mark pulls out scissors and cuts of all of her hair because he is still mad about the guy she sent to beat up Ponyboy Curtis. Bryon feels that Mark and him do not have as much in common as they once did. Although Mark brings in money, Bryon thinks it's from gambling. Bryon went to pick up Mark but nobody was home. He waited on the porch but suddenly a car with four guys comes up and attack him. It was the Shepards. Bryon ends up telling Mark to stop the fighting and just leave the Shepards alone. __**11. In Chapter Nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?**__ M&M does a drug (LSD) that could ruin him forever.What happened to M&M makes Bryon really think about how is life has changed and the decisions he has been making. __**12. What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do?**__ Bryon finds pills that Mark was selling to hippies to make money. That's how Mark knew where M&M was. Bryon ends up calling the police and gets Mark arrested. __**13. How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change?**__ Bryon changes his attitude toward life completely. He realizes that some of his friends, like Mark, make wrong choices instead of right ones. He no longer loves Cathy and pushes her away. Bryon decides to devote himself to work. __**14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book?**__ Bryon thinks about what happened in the past year and wonders if things could have turned out differently. .__**15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?**__ I think this book was a really good read and I would suggest it to people who haven 't read it yet. The message of the story was that they were living in a really bad town and they faced really tough challenges. No matter how many bad influences there were, they needed to make the right decisions instead of doing what everyone else wanted them to do or being what everybody else wanted them to be.
 * __9. In Chapter Seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?__**
 * __10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change?__**