Blake+J.


 * Summer Reading Project**


 * That was Then, This is Now **

Byron and Mark are like brothers. They've been that way since Byron's mom took him in when he was nine when Mark's parents shot eachother. Byron is a tall guy with dark hair and eyes while Mark is smaller and has golden hair and eyes ,but is stronger then he looks.
 * 1. Who are Byron and Mark.**

First Byron meets Cathy ,M&M's sister, who he starts to take an interest in. Then he meets Mike Chambers. A kid who got beat up for helping a colored girl.
 * 2. Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital?**

Byron and Charlie and buddies because Charlie allows Byron and Mark to hustle customers in pool. They're friends but Byron know that Charlie is a tough guy who shouldn't be messed with.
 * 3. What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie?**

Byron takes Cathy on a date to the dance where he see's his ex girlfriend Angela. Angela has a crush on Curtis who doesn't know she exists so she gets a guy to fight him. When Mark tries to stop the fight the kid hits him over the head with a glass bottle which severly hurts him.
 * 4.What happens at the dance?**

He discovers that they're growing apart and he's changing while Mark is staying the same.
 * 5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark?**

Charlie is killed when he saves Byron and Mark from two Texans they hustled. Byron feel like it shouldn't of happened and it was his fault while Mark feels that it's the way life goes.
 * 6. What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it?**

Mark and Cathy do not like each other because Cathy thinks he's a bad influence.
 * 7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?**

Mark cuts her hair off when she gets drunk because he wants revenge on when she sent that guy over that almost killed him at the dance.
 * 8. What does mark do to Angel? Why?**

He realizes that Mark is like a lion and that he doesn't care about anyone but Byron.
 * 9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?**

Byron gets beat up by Angela's brother Curly because he cut off her hair. He blacks out and wakes up at Terry Jone's house where he stays the night. There he tells Mark that he wants the fighting to end because he's sick of it.
 * 10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones’ house? How does his attitude change?**

In chapter nine Cathy and Byron go to the hippie house where they believe M&M is staying. There they find him high on LSD. This scares Bryon because he can't understand why all this bad stuff keeps happening to him and his friends.
 * 11. In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?**

In chapter ten Byron finds LSD pills where Mark stores cigarettes. This freaks him out because he just saw M&M all messed up on acid and can't believe Mark would do that. Byron makes a hard choice and calls the cops on Mark.
 * 12. What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark’s bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do?**

Once Byron calls the cops on Mark he starts to avoid everyone who loves him and stops getting into trouble. He gets straight A's and gets promoted at work. Things that seemed like the world to him 6 months ago don't seem that inportant to him.
 * 13.How does Bryon’s relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change?**

I believe he feels that he's changed and that he's growing up. He stops caring about things he cared for before and just wants to be a kid again.
 * 14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book**

I believe this book lesson is that people change when they get older and that we have to cherish our childhood because it only last so long.
 * 15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?**