James+A

1. Who are Mark and Bryon?
=== Mark and Bryon are two friends that were raise together. Mark moved in with Bryon and his family because of problems that he had at his house with his parents. His parents died and then he had to move in with Bryon. Mark and Bryon have been best friends, doing everything together since then. ===

2. Who are the two young people that Bryon meets at the hospital?
=== Bryon meets Cathy and Mike at the hospital. Mike is a boy who was serverly beaten up by a gang of boys when he was trying to help a black girl get home. Cathy is a girl that Bryon really likes but more importantly M&M's sister. Bryon has just learned that it was M&M's sister. ===

3. What kind of realationship does Bryon have with Charlie?
=== Bryon has a close relationship with Charlie. Charlie, a bartender, is always cutting slack for Bryon by giving him discounts on drinks or letting Bryon use his car. You would have to be in an extremly close realationship to trust someone with your car. ===

4. What happened at the dance?
=== Bryon and Cathy were having fun at the dance when Ponyboy, one of Bryon's friend's, comes over and says that Mark was beaten up and severly hurt. It turns out that Angela, one of Bryon"s old girlfriends, hired someone to beat up Ponyboy. Mark tried to stop it but then the attacker turned on Mark. Mark was hurt and had to go to the hospital. ===

5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark?
=== Bryon begins to discover that Mark is thinking about the past and how the two of them used to have so much fun together by reading, playing cowboys, and getting in trouble. Also how they would always look out for eachother and be there for eachother. ===

6. What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it?
=== Charlie was shot when he was trying to save Mark and Bryon from two Texans. Mark and Bryon felt terrible that they lost one of their closest friends. Mark and Bryon thought it was there falt in the first place for hustling the two Texans for money. ===

7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?
=== Mark and Cathy think of each other as friends but they don't love each other. But they also don't hate each other. Mark doesn't really think about Cathy that much. He just sees her as his friends girlfriend. Cathy may think about Mark, but only because it her boyfriends brother that she never really sees him. ===

8. What does Mark do to Angela? Why?
=== Mark get Angela even more drunk and cuts off all of Angela's beautiful black hair and drops her off in the front of her yard with her hair. Mark does this because he was mad at Angela for setting up Curtis for a fight when she could have killed Mark. ===

9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?
=== Bryon begins to discover that Mark is seperating from Bryon. That Mark does care about what he does. Mark thinks he is invincible and that nothig can stop him from what he is doing. Bryon knows that Mark is changing. ===

10. What happen to Bryon at Terry Jones' House? How does his attitude change?
=== Bryon got beaten up at Terry Jones' by Curtis and Tim Shepard for leaving his sister on the front yard with no hair. Bryon would usually want to get pay back and go beat up Tim Shepard. But now he doesn't want to fight, he does not want to seek revenge. Bryon realizes that he want to be a regular kid and doesn't want to get caught up in fighting or by the police. ===

11. In chapter nine what happens to M&M? How does this move Bryon?
=== Cathy and Bryon went looking for M&M when they found him in a hippie house. M&M was hungry and filthy in dirt. He was talking about spider and how he went down into his stomach and found spiders. They had to take M&M to the hospital for mental and physical problems. This moves Bryon in a sad way because Cathy was upset and it was really hard for Bryon to handle. ===

13. How does Bryon's realationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change?
=== Bryon realationship with his friends turns on him when he thinks that he made the wrong chose to call the police on Mark. Mark is not just getting affected by this so is Cathy. Bryon ends up breaking up with Cathy because Bryon thought that Cathy is glad that Mark was in jail and she didn't like Mark. Bryon attitude now is that he does really care about anything and he puttting too much thouht into what he did in the past. ===

14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book?
=== Bryon feels that he made to much wrong decisions in his life. He also feels like he needs answer to all the questions that Bryon has in life. Finally Bryon feels that he wants to be a kid again, when he thought he had all the answers to his problems. ===

15. What do you think about this and what life message does it teach?
=== I thought this was a great book and that it taught me a very important life message. It taught me to always think before you do things and not to take anger out on your friends. Also to make the right decisions even if they will affect you. Finally this book taught me to always think positve and to never be negative. ===