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====1. Q: Who are Bryon and Mark?  A: Bryon and Mark have a special relationship just as most brothers do but they do not necessarily share the same features or personalities as eachother. Bryon is a bigger and more husky boy with brown eyes and dark brown hair. Bryon enjoys his look because he describes himself as a Saint Bernard puppy (he likes this because it helps him get chicks). Bryon's personality is more laid back and controlled, rather then a trouble-maker or and irresponsible/ disrespectful kid. Mark has almost an opposite look. He is small and petite with golden eyes along with golden hair. His personality is very outgoing. He isn't afraid to do what is on his mind. He also takes an opportunity when he's given one. ====

====2. Q: Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital?  A: Bryon meets a boy his age named Mike. Mike was at the hospital because he was beaten up very severly by a gang of huge boys in the ghetto. Mike wasn't the person who caused the trouble in the first place, but it just so happened that Mike got the beating for it. Mike was bandaged around his head and acrossed one eye, along with two arms trapped in slings, and stitches on his lip. Bryon also met Cathy, M&M's sister. Cathy was there working a shift in the basement of the hospital, the cafeteria. ====

====3. Q: What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie?  A: Bryon and Charlie have a special bond with eachother. Since Bryon dated Charlie's sister, Charlie and Bryon have been very close. Even though Charlie's sister and Bryon broke up, Bryon and Charlie's friendshsip had always been the same. Charlie owns a bar, which Mark and Bryon often visit. This connects Charlie and Bryon together even more because they see eachother almost daily. ====

====4. Q: What happens at the dance?  A: Bryon brought a date, Cathy, the teenage girl that works in the cafeteria of the hospital Bryon's mom was staying in. The couple were having a great time with eachother dancing, talking, and laughing until Mark comes up to Bryon along with his friend Curtis and mentions that there is cases of alcohol in Terry Jone's car. Mark said to Bryon that when he was done doing his thing with Cathy that he could come out to the car and grab a beer. Terry wouldn't have minded if anyone took beer, but it wouldn't have mattered because he was passed out in the front of his car anyway. Angela Shepard, Bryon's old girlfriend, shows up and has a basic conversation with Bryon but as he is talking he sees that Cathy is so much better than what Angela was ever to Bryon. Mark and Ponyboy Curtis were heading out to Terry Jone's car to have some alcolhol, that's when it went wrong. From the dance room you heard a loud scream from the parking lot, Bryon said to ignore it because it was probably just another fight, but really is was Mark. Mark had been smashed in the head with a glass bottle. Curts started to yelp for Bryon, so Bryon went to the parking lot to discover Mark was out cold. Originally it was supposed to be Ponyboy Curtis to be jumped and smashed on the head, Mark was only trying to help. Angela was the person behind the whole scheme. ====

====5. Q: What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark?  A: As Mark and Bryon are beginning to grow up they are slowly separating from eachother. Bryon realizes this quickly. He begins to worry alot about Mark because he is bringing home a lot of money unexpectedly. Bryon sees that Mark is gradually detaching himself from the family. Bryon also discovers different things about Marks parents. ====

====6. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Q: What happened to Charlie? How did Mark and Bryon feel about it? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: One night at Charlie's bar Mark and Bryon were hustling two cowboys by playing pool for money. Charlie kept a close eye on the four while they were playing in his bar. At the end of the night when they finished up the game Mark and Bryon earned a decent amount of money by winning a few games of pool. They were walking home and in an alley stood the two cowboys. Mark and Bryon were forced into it and were almnost killed by the two men. Charlie showed up and pulled out his gun, which he always had for protection at the bar, and fired. Bryon and Mark ran out and Bryon stood behind Charlie. Charlie fell over because of a shot to his head. He was then killed. Mark took Charlie's gun and kept firing until the cowboys stopped. When Bryon pushed Charlie off of him thats when he realized he was dead. It was truly the most devastating moment of Bryon's life. Mark was sad but Mark only cared about Mark and he didn't show his feelings as much as Mark. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">7. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: What do Mark and Cathy think of eachother? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: Mark and Cathy don't think much of eachother. Before Cathy thought he was a cute boy, until his personality was shown. She didn't care for him much. He didn't think of Cathy as a friend. He actually disliked her. In all, Cathy and Mark tried to pay the least attention to eachother possible. This was because they were both very close to Bryon and spent time alone with him. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">8. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: What does Mark to Angel's hair? Why? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: Mark cuts off all of Angel's hair which he think will make her look ugly. Bryon was part of this too but he was very drunk and unaware of the situation. Mark did this because of Angela's scheme at the dance. He wanted payback for getting a beer-bottle busted to his head. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">9. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: Bryon discovers that Mark is slowly fading away from his life as both a friend and as a brother. Mark only thinks about himself, and always seems to make the wrong decision and his poor attitude feeds off to not only just him but everyone else around him. This leads Bryon to thinking negatively about Mark. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: What happens at Terry Jones' house? How does this change his attitude? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: At Terry Jones' house Bryon was beaten up by Tim and Curly Shepard because he confessed to cutting off Angela's hair. Bryon and Mark had a discussion about how Bryon didn't want Mark to beat up the Shepard's because he didn't want to get even with anyone anymore. He wanted to be more mature. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">11. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: In chapter nine, Byron and Cathy went to the "free-lovers" house to redeem M&M. When they went upstairs to see M&M he was crouched in the corner hiding from the "spiders". M&M took LSD drugs and these drugs caused him to believe, feel, and see things that weren't realistic.These spiders would hold down M&M and would also eat his stomach. This moves Bryon because Cathy is his girlfriend, and M&M is Cathy's little brother. It hurt Bryon so much to see Cathy so hurt and heartbroken. Bryon was also very destressed because M&M was a friend of him and Mark's. He was a peacemaker to Bryon not a "hippie" with a drug addiction. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">12. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: After a rough day at the free-lovers house Bryon wanted a cigarette. He didn't have any left and he remembered that Marks kept and extra pack of them under his mattress. When Bryon went to reach for the cigarettes he grabbed a bottle of pills. Thats when it hit Bryon. This is where Mark had been getting all this money. He had been selling drugs. Bryon was furious, he was so mad that he called the cops. Mark was arrested for being a drug dealer. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">13: <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: Bryon's relationship and attitude towards his life was completely different. This is because Mark was a drug dealer, just like another person who had given M&M the drugs, Bryon felt terrible to see M&M the way he was so Cathy and him had seperated. School was a lot harder for Bryon. It used to be a piece of cake but ever since the hole encident, all Bryon's intelligence slowly faded in the back of his mind. Bryon truly only had one emotion for every situation, hope. Hope was the only thing Bryon relied on. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">14. <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Q: How does Bryon feel at the end of the book? <span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A: At the end of the book, I feel that Bryon was not as happy as he was in the beginning because of all the faults that occured. I think Bryon would have been more please with himself if he did not call the police on Mark. It seems that Bryon regretted his situation until he actually saw Mark in the jail. But no matter what, Bryon still missed his other haft. ====

====<span style="background-color: #cf50f2; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">15. Q: What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach? A: This book is very inspiring to me because it sends us teenagers an important life lesson. "That was Then, This is Now", also tells us and teaches us that no matter how much sadness you go through, life goes on, such as Bryon did at the end of the book. The important moral to the book is to simply do the right thing. If you look at Bryon and Mark they had many consequences for there dumb decisions and careless mistakes. ====