Michael+K.

//That Was Then, This Is Now b//y: S.E. Hinton

Byron and Mark are teenagers (16 years old) who are best friends that also live together. Mark moved in with Byron and his mother when he was nine years old when Mark's parents killed each other.
 * 1. Who are Byron and Mark?**

Byron meets Cathy, M&M's sister, and Mike Chambers, a lonely injured patient.
 * 2. Who are the two young people Byron meet at the hospital?**

Byron looks up to Charle because Charlie had a rough childhood; yet he owns a bar and he has people's respect. Charlie is a father-figure to Byron because he lends him money for soda and lets Byron borrow his car.
 * 3. What kind of relationship does Byron have with Charlie?**

Byron attends the dance with Cathy and Mark gets injured in a fight outside the dance.
 * 4. What happens at the dance?**

Byron discovers that things are changing between them. Byron is spending more time with Cathy than with Mark. They talk about the past and Mark misses the "all-for-one" gang mentality. Byron thinks it is better to have your own personality and to be yourself.
 * 5. What does Byron begin to discover in his private converstations with Mark?**

Charlie gets shot by the Texans while he was trying to protect Byron and Mark from getting shot. Byron feels gulity but Mark does not.
 * 6. What happened to Charlie? How do Byron and Mark feel about it?**

Mark and Cathy do not like each other. They both want Byron's attention.
 * 7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?**

Mark cuts off Angel's hair because she set up Curtis to get beat up. In the process Mark was seriously injured with a bottle that shattered over on his head.
 * 8. What does Mark do to Angel?**

Byron discovers why Mark's parents killed themselves. Mark's parents killed themselves in a fight about who was Mark's real biological father.
 * 9. In chapter seven, what does Byron discover about his good friend Mark?**

Byron gets beat up by Angel's brothers who were recently released from prison. They beat him up as payback for Mark cutting off Angel's hair. Byron's attitude changes because he does not want Mark to retaliate. Byron wants the fighting to stop.
 * 10. What happened to Byron at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change?**

Byron and Cathy find M&M in a bad state because he took many drugs. This moves Byron because of how much Cathy cares about M&M. Byron really likes Cathy. After they find M&M they take him to the hospital where doctors say they don't know if he will ever be the same.
 * 11. In chapter nine what happens to M&M? Why does this move Byron?**

Byron finds out that Mark has been dealing durgs. Byron immediately calls the police to report him. Mark is astonished that Byron has called the police on him.
 * 12. What shocking discovery does Byron make in Mark's bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do?**

Byron ends his relationship with Cathy. He becomes distant from all his friends but still does well in school and keeps his job. Byron has no feelings but still visits Mark in jail.
 * 13. How does Byron's relationship with his friends and his attitude towards life completely change?**

At the end of the book Byron feels mixed up and confused. He does not care what happens next.
 * 14. How does Byron feel at the end of the book?**

I think this book was good because it showed how our actions have consequences. For example, if you take drugs or sell drugs, you can negatively affect your life and others close to you. The only problem that I had with this book was Byron's betrayal of Mark towards the end of the book. I wonder if they they were actual blood brothers would Byron have called the police so quickly?
 * 15. What do you think about the book and what life message does it teach?**