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That Was Then This Is Now
By: S.E Hinton Bryon is a sixteen year old kid who likes to have fights. Mark is a trouble maker and likes to steal things and gets away with everything.
 * 1) Who are Bryon and Mark?

2. Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital? Bryon met Mike Chambers and Cathy at the hospital.

3. What kind of relationship does Bryon have with Charlie? The relationship that Bryon has with Charlie is that they are friends and Charlie likes Bryon and lets him borrow his car.

4. What happens at the dance? Mark tries to break up a fight and gets hit in the head with a beer can and was hospitalized.

5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversations with Mark? What Bryon begins to discover in his private conversation with Mark is that Mark thinks of Bryon as a real brother and is always there for him.

6. What happened to Charlie? How do Bryon and Mark feel about it? Charlie got shot above his left eye. Bryon and Mark feel it was their fault that Charlie died and they are both sad.

7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other? What Mark and Cathy think of each other is that they don't like each other because they are total opposites and do not agree on alot of things.

8. What does Mark do to Angel? Why? Mark cuts off all of Angel's hair and throws her in her front yard drunk because Angel made some big tough guy beat up Mark so he wanted to get back at her.

9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark? Bryon begins to discover that Mark is stearing away from him and Bryon is trying to get things back to the way they previously were with him and Mark.

10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change? What happened to Bryon at Terry's house was that the Shepards came up to Bryon and asked him if he cut off Angel's hair and Bryon said "yes" and they beat him up. Bryon said "yes" because he did not want Mark to get beat up again even though it was not Bryon's fault. His attitude changed because Bryon did not want to fight any more. He said he was tired of beating people up and getting beat up in return. Also, Bryon's attitude affected Mark because Bryon did not want Mark to beat up the Shepards because it would only lead to more violence.

11. In chapter nine, what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon? What happens to M&M is that he runs away from home and goes to a Hippy Commune House. M&M's family and friends are worried about him and go looking for him. They finally find him at the Hippy Commune House and take him to the hospital. This moved Bryon because Bryon felt that M&M was his little brother and he did not want to see M&M like that.

12. What shocking discovery does Bryon make in Mark's bedroom (chapter 10)? What does he do? The shocking discovery Bryon makes in Mark's bedroom is he finds a container full of pills. Bryon calls the police and Mark gets arrested.

13. How does Bryon's relationship with his friends and his attitude toward life completely change? Bryon's relationship with his friends changes because he no longer commits bad actions. Bryon's attitude towards life completely changes when he sees how some of his friends did drugs and what it could do to you he decided that it is unhealthy.

14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book? At the end of the book Bryon visits Mark at the reformatory and when he is talking to him Bryon realizes that Mark is not the person that he was and Bryon starts to hate him.

15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach? //That Was Then This is Now// was a fantastic book and it teaches an important lesson that you should always do the right thing and choose your friends carefully.