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="That was Then, This is Now" =

1.Who are Bryon and Mark? 2.Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital? 3.What kind of relationship does Bryon share with Charlie? 4.What happens at the dance? 5.What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversation with Mark? 6.What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it? 7.What do Mark and Cathy think of each other? 8.What does Mark do to Angela? Why? 9.In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark? 10.What happen to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change? 11.In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon? 12.What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do?  13.How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change? 14.How does Bryon feel at the end of the book? > All Bryon wants is to be a kid again and find the answers to his questions. 15.What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bryon and Mark, the main characters of the book, are two best friends who now live with each other due to a drunken argument that killed both of Mark's parents. Bryon, a ladies man, is very tall, has dark __hair__ and a muscular body. Mark, on the other hand, is rather short and has bright golden eyes and hair.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The two young people Bryon meets at the hospital are Cathy, M&M's sister, who works at the cafe in the hospital and Mike Chambers, who was staying in the room across the hall from Bryon's mother.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> Bryon and Charlie have a close relationship that goes back to when Bryon dated Charlie's sister. After Bryon and Charlie's sister broke up, Bryon and Charlie remained good friends. Charlie allows Bryon and Mark into Charlie's bar, even though they are underage, as long as they pay Charlie the money he lent them.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">At the dance Angela, Bryon's ex-girlfriend, wanted to find someone who would agree to fight Curtis, and she did. Right before the guy was about to hit Curtis on the head with a beer bottle, Mark barged in and said they should fight fair. The fight did not end fair, however, the guy hit Mark on the head with a beer bottle making him unconscious and causing him to need stitches.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">During Bryon and Marks private conversation, Bryon begins to discover that Mark and him are growing up, and apart from each other. This greatly upsets Bryon. Bryon also becomes superstitious about Mark because of all the money he has been bringing home. Bryon also discovers unexpected things about Mark's mom.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">When Bryon and Mark were leaving Charlie's bar, they were followed by the Texans they had hustled that night. The Texans wanted to beat them up for taking all their money in the pool games. When Charlie saw this happening, he cut in and tried to break up the fight. When the Texans saw Charlie, one of the them shot Charlie right above his left eye, killing him. Bryon feels horrible, because it was their fault he died. Charlie had warned them in the bar to be careful, and they didn't listen. Mark, on the other hand, feels that Charlie didn't have to come save them, that was his choice, so it wasn't their fault
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Mark and Cathy are not very fond of each other at all. Since Mark and Cathy both have a special relationship with Bryon they are jealous of the time the other person spends with him.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Mark cuts off all of Angels hair to get back at her for starting a fight at the dance and almost killing him.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">In chapter seven, Bryon discovers that Mark and him __#|continue__ to grow apart, even more then when they had their private conversation about all the money Mark was bringing in.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">At Terry Jones' house Mark gets beat up by Angela's brothers for cutting all her hair off. Bryon's attitude changed in a very positive way. Instead of always wanting to get even, Bryon learns to move on from the past.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">In Chapter nine, M&M took a drug call LSD, which is known to give you major illusions. M&M had a vision that there were spiders eating away at his stomach. Bryon thinks of M&M as his little brother, and this makes Bryon very upset because he feels like he was a huge influence on M&M.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bryon finds drugs under Mark's mattress. He realizes that since Mark obviously wasn't using the drugs, he must be selling them and that is where he was getting all the extra money from.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bryon's relationship with all his friends changed greatly. He dumped Cathy because he lost feelings for her. Every time he tried to talk to M&M he felt so bad he didn't do anything about the drug. Bryon also doesn't want to hangout with anyone else and him and Mark aren't close anymore. His attitude toward life changed because his concentration in school was always distracted by something running through his head. Bryon has no emotions, he can't show hate for Curtis or love for Cathy.
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bryon is very confused with everything going on. He feels as if he is All he asks himself is "what if?"
 * <span style="color: #5e1ac2; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">This book was very interesting and detailed. It was one of those book where once you started to read it, you couldn't stop because something new happened on every page. This book taught me two things, change and not to get involved with drugs or drinking. Everyone changes as they get older. Some mature and turn into good people, but some don't. The people who don't are normally the ones who get involved with drinking and drugs, which will get you nowhere in life.