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= That Was Then, This is Now by: S.E. Hinton = = 1.) Who are Bryon and Mark? = Bryon and Mark are the main characters of the book and they are best friends. Bryon is a tall, muscular, ladies man, with brown hair, and brown eyes. Mark is a thief,that everyone like because he is a risk taker, with golden hair, and golden eyes. = = = 2.) Who are the two young people Bryon meets in the hospital? = Bryon meets a beautiful girl named Cathy and a beat up looking boy named Mike Chambers. = = = 3.) What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie? = Bryon and Charlie have a very strong and friendly relationship, their relationship is so good that Charlie actually dies for Bryon. = = = 4.) What happens at the dance? = Charlie allows Bryon to use his car to chauffeur Cathy to the dance in. At thedance He and Cathy are dancing when Curtis comes running in from the parking lot to inform Bryon that Mark is hurt. Bryon breaks through the group of people surrounding Mark, there he find Mark on the ground unconscious. He then find sout that Angela hired some guy to hurt curtis but Mark interferes to break up the fight and get bashed on the head? = = = 5.) What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark? = Bryon begins to discover that he and mark are going separate ways in life because he is looking ahead into his future and Mark just want to stay young and free. = = = 6.) What happens to Charlie, how do Mark and Bryon feel about it? = Bryon and were playing a game of pool at the bar with the texans. Later, the Texan realize that they have been set up. When Mark and Bryon were walking home with the twenty-five dollars they had won in their pocket when they were pulled into an alley at gun point by the texans. Charlie some how know that all of this is going on so he quickly pulls out his gun runs into his alley and fires but the texans fire at him and he is shot above the eye and killed instantly. After that Bryon feels it is his and Marks fault. While Mark, just thinks about himself and says = = = 7.) What do Mark and Cathy think of each other? = They are both envious of the different relationship each of them have with Bryon. Also Cathy does not like the decisions Mark makes while Mark does not like hocats he tries to control people's lives = = = 8.) What does Mark do to Angela? Why? = Mark gives her enough alcohol to get her unconscious so he can cut her hair off. He does this to get back at her for hiring a guy to hurt Curtis which actually gets him hurt. = = = 9.) In chapter 7, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark? = In chapter seven, Bryon realizes that him and Mark are going separate directions in life. He also realizes thateveryone is friends with him because of how he takes risks. = = = 10.) What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house?How does his attitude Change? = At Terry Jones' house, the Curtis Brothers beat him up. After that Mark wants him and Bryon to get revenge and beat them up, but Bryon maturely says we can't keep doing this going around getting into fights, and then getting revenge, we just have to move on. Bryon's attitude changes because he realizes theat life is not just about fighting fire with fire, it is about moving on and forgeting about the past. = = = 11.) In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? How does this move Bryon? = In chapter nine, M&M takes a life threating drug that will affect M&m mentally.Bryon is Moved by this because he always thought of M&M as a person he could trust and Bryon always had a soft spot fro him because they were so close. = = = 12.) What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom? What does he do? = Bryon discovers that Mark has been dealing a very harmful drug that affects the brain. Bryon then thinks that this is the drug that is making M&M mentally crazy. In his fury Bryon made a very tough decision and turned Mark in. = = = 13.) How does Bryons relationship with his friends and his attitude torward life completely change? = Bryon's relationship with his friends chanes because h is completly emotionless and does not feel sorry for anyone except for M&M and every day in his life is just a haze and an obstacle. And all he thinks about is getting through the day. = = = 14.) How does Bryon feel at the end of the Book? = Bryon feels like he does not have all the awnsers now because he is all grown up.He says he wants to be a kid again when he had all the awnsers. = = = 15.) What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach? = In my opinion, This book was extremly well written, and I am going to recomennd it to those who have not yet read it. It was full of detail and emotion. It teaches about the struggles teenagers go through in life and how much people change during those though years. It also teaches the of life during this time period of drugs, poverty, and gangs. It also teaches about all the changes the world was going through during this time.